Climate change and migration: an overview

• Main Authors: Brown, Oli, McLeman, Robert
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm140; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm140; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm140

Abstract Climate change refers generally to persistent, identifiable change in the state of the climate in terms of average conditions and/or variability. Such changes may be stimulated by natural processes or through alteration of the composition of the atmosphere due to human activities such as energy use and forest clearance (also referred to as anthropogenic climate change ). Widespread concern among physical scientists about the potential global impacts of anthropogenic climate change on sea level, land and sea ice, precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events first emerged in the 1980s.