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Climate Change And Sea Level Rise: Assessing Their Impacts On Belize, Carlos Fuller
Climate Change And Sea Level Rise: Assessing Their Impacts On Belize, Carlos Fuller
American University Law Review
First of all, as we all know, there are three aspects of climate change that we know occur. The first is the increase of global temperatures because of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. As a result of the warming of the oceans, sea levels rise; but even more importantly, additional fresh water is entering the oceans, which is now the predominant factor leading to increased sea-level rates. Finally, a change of the hydrological cycle—because of warmer temperatures, we are seeing more extreme weather events and shifts in precipitation patterns.
The impacts, however, are more important—for example, the impacts of …