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Running head: AUSTRALIA AND CLIMATE CHANGEAustralia and Climate ChangeName of Student:Name of University:Author’s Note:

1AUSTRALIA AND CLIMATE CHANGEThe country Australia is relatively young in terms of being a country but in reality it ismuch old. Australia can be regarded as an inland as well as a subcontinent which is positioned inthe southern hemisphere between two Oceans namely the Pacific and the Indian. “Australia iscomprised of Mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania and several small islands in theIndian and the Pacific oceans”. The terrain can be considered to be a plateau region with deserts.It can be stated that the major part of Australia has temperate weather. The states of Australiawhich are in the northern part are characteristically warm at all times and the southern stateswhich have cool winters but rarely have “sub zero temperatures”. In the higher mountains, snowfalls at the time of winter which enables several resorts to find place there and smaller resorts inthe island states (Taylor).The high amount of “change in climate” affects diverse avenues of the environment. Theecosystems are very much valuable and also vulnerable to the effects of variations in the climatewhich change rapidly. The country Australia is also quite rich in terms of the biodiversity and thethreat which it has from the human impacts needs to be addressed for its benefits. Often ithappens that a number of species in the Australian environment cannot adjust suitably. Theamalgamation of several factors namely that of “topography, habitat fragmentation, low capacityfor dispersal and the restricted ranges of geography” is responsible for adaptation to the climate.It is crucial therefore to study the projected climate trends in Australia and discuss howinhabitants might be affected or might respond to these specific changes. It also helps in theidentification of the suitable regions which are likely to be impacted by the issues in the climate(Head et al).

2AUSTRALIA AND CLIMATE CHANGEAustralia is blessed with a lot of sunshine there has been a decline is the share ofrenewable in the power generation. There has been a considerable threat to the Australian regionin terms of the change in the weather. The commonest impacts of climate at present are to be considered in case of the naturalenvironment, and in other places are viewed in case of the natural environment and they arelinked to the increase in the degrees and the rise in the number, duration and well as the severityof heat-waves. These impacts also comprise of the changes in the growth and the allocation ofthe plants, animal and the insects (VanDerWal et al). There are also pole-ward changes or “shiftsin the distribution of the marine species and the increases in the coral bleaching on the GreatBarrier Reef and the Western Australian Reefs”. There are cases when the changing distributionsof marine organisms have impacted on the persons who visit the place (Buys, Miller, and vanMegen). Certain changes in the climate can impact the human activities. There are certain provincial “variations in the Australian rainfall” have been connected tohuman impacted the climatic alterations in the south western regions. The decline in the rainfalland the surface reservoir since a considerably long time period has been a cause of concern. Thechanges in the temperature of the atmosphere have been responsible for the green house effectsand the resultant concentration of the greenhouse gases (Keppel et al). The effects of the climate changes in the future and the related rise in the sea levels arebound to be impacted in several locations from the “natural environment” to the security of foodand the “human health infrastructure”. Among the “terrestrial ecosystems” of Australia some ofthe most vulnerable situations to climatic change are the alpine systems because the habitats shiftto the superior elevations and also shrink in those places. The second area is the tropical and the

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