David Ikenna IGWEGBE

IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN NIGERIA USING NIGER DELTA AS A CASE STUDY

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Globally, climate change is causing concern due to its negative impact on the environment. Human activities have resulted in certain unusual changes in the earth's climate system. These anomalies can be observed in the climate system. These anomalies include increase in the concentration of Green house gas in earth’s atmosphere, which will ultimately lead to global warming
1 . The current climate change which started since the late 1960's has occurred at alarming speed and is attributed to human activities 2 . According to Intergovernmental Panel on climate change defined climate change as a change in the state of the climate that can be identify by changes in means and varibility of it properties and persist for a extended period 3 . According to the IPCC, climate change disproportionately affects the poor. Natural disasters such as floods and droughts have already caused significant harm and loss of life among poor populations globally
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