An increase of this magnitude could
trigger widespread melting of the permafrost in Arctic regions, with unpredictable results.»
Not exact matches
It is clear that the 1C temperature rise over pre-industrial levels that we have seen so far has
triggered a whole range of effects including
widespread melting of mountain glaciers, significant sea level rise, devastating droughts, and flooding in various parts of the world.
These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica
melting permanently, global food shortages and
widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching
triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..