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Visualizing Climate Change

DEN- SIY COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA ... EFFECTS ON NATURE EFFECTS ON HUMAN DAMAGES CAUSED BY HURRICANE KATRINA HUMAN CAUSES HIDDEN COSTS 97 USA CO: EMISSIONS MEASURABLE LOSS MASURABLI DESIRABLE REACTION lel

Visualizing Climate Change

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Nowadays global warming is one the urgent problems that our society need to deal with, for our wealth and for the future’s. This project focuses on coastal systems and low-lying areas because they a... re projected to be exposed to increasing risks (i.e. erosion, floods) and their effects will be exacerbated by rising human-induced pressures on the environment. First, we gathered data about the present situation and how could be dangerous the future one, according to the four possible scenarios provided by the Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC. Then we searched for the major causes related to the damage of coasts and lands, and we figured out that the huge increase of greenhouse gases during last century is the main reason why temperature suddenly rose, causing thereby the slowly shattering of the world how we know it. We collected all informations in the artefact below, showing how the ‘machinery’ of climate change works from the point of view of coastal systems, how coasts react to environmental changes and how these changes affect human living. To give an existing example of what climate change has led and will lead to us, we provided data from disastrous consequences caused by Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans’ coasts in 2005. Therefore, we also focused on North America pollution’s data. In conclusion, we gathered all the “advices for the future” and put them in a “reaction” area. This has a great importance because it shows how population and governments should behave to slow down this serious situation, that is to ACT with social sustainable awareness and to promote laws in aid of it. All of this in order to avoid the “coulda, woulda, shoulda” statement, ever. That’s the way we want it to be.

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Stefania Guerra