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Impacts of climate
change on coastal
environment
- Sea Level Rise
- Increased risk of flooding in cities,
inhabited islands, and tidal wetlands.
- Increased salinity of
ground water and push
salt water further
upstream
- water
undrinkable
without
desalination
- harms aquatic
plants and animals
- water
undrinkable
without
desalination
- Increased risk of flooding in cities,
inhabited islands, and tidal wetlands.
- Storm surge
- Flood low-lying
coasts
- damage property
- disrupt transportation systems
- destroy habitat
- Flood low-lying
coasts
- Precipitation
- increased spring
runoff (too much precipitation)
- threaten the health
and quality of coastal
waters.
- runoff bring more nitrogen, phosphorus, and
other pollutants into coastal waters, many
aquatic species could be threatened
- threaten the health
and quality of coastal
waters.
- affect the salinity of coastal
waters (little precipitation)
- Droughts raises
salinity in estuaries, and enables salt
water to mix farther upstream
- Droughts raises
salinity in estuaries, and enables salt
water to mix farther upstream
- increased spring
runoff (too much precipitation)
- Coastal Water Temperatures
- cause suitable habitats of
temperature-sensitive species
to shift northward.
- Invasive species will start
competing with native
species.
- Invasive species will start
competing with native
species.
- cause suitable habitats of
temperature-sensitive species
to shift northward.
- Ocean Acidification
- increase the risks of coral
bleaching events that can lead to
loss of critical habitat
- Corals could be lost if CO2
concentrations in the
atmosphere continue to rise at
their current rate.
- increase the risks of coral
bleaching events that can lead to
loss of critical habitat
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