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2. Scientific Consensus
= There is currently a strong Scientific Consensus that the Earth
is warming and that this warming is mainly caused by human
activities.
3. Extreme weather
= the range that has been seen in the past. Often, extreme
events are based on a location's recorded weather history and
defined as lying in the most unusual ten percent.
4. Sea Level
= The Sea Level will not rise uniformly everywhere on Earth
Further effects are higher storm-surges and more dangerous
tsunamis, displacement of populations, loss and degradation of
agricultural land and damage in cities.
5. Ocean acidification
= Ocean Acidification is the on going decrease in the pH of the
Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO
2) from the atmosphere.