Positive/Neutral

Nyampur Islands

• Nyarampur islands have experienced increasing precipitation since the 1990s, which also leads to flooding of surrounding homes and habitats
• The uncertainty of the spatial distribution comes due to most of damages being lead by positive feedback loops.
  • For example, melting ice in the Arctic: the true effect of the chain reactions worsen or mitigate themselves with time (eg. Migration may suddenly improve a different country’s biodiversity, or it may suddenly worsen and destroy a species’s population)

Other Regions

• However, their timing is largely to do with human activity and the speed of increase of the steadily rising temperatures, so society nevertheless has a high understanding of future conditions. For example, the desertification occurring in the Sahel zone in Africa is a result of climate change spurred by deforestation of dryland for agricultural use.
• Europe is also vulnerable, as it has, out of all the continents, the lowest fraction of its land area (4%) in 'refugia' -- areas of ripe in biodiversity where natural environmental conditions remain relatively constant even in the midst of large changes in the environmental; they are mostly in Scandinavia and Scotland. The rest of its natural habitats are at risk of potential destruction.

Other Regions

• In 2013, a study found that 57% of plants and 34% of animals will see their habitats cut by 50% or more by 2080, as temperature changes make them unsuitable for the species.
• Areas that are very temperature-sensitive, though, are troublesome, as more complicated weather patterns are more difficult to predict and track. Complications can easily arise with sudden changes in weather patterns, from precipitation (shown here) to temperature fluctuations.