Impacts of Climate Change
Climate change impacts are classified as being one of two general types: bio-physical impacts include physical changes to northern landscapes and ecosystems; socio-economic impacts arise from bio-physical impacts and are expected to change how all Wonderlanders live and work.
These impacts were outlined in some detail in 2004 in the Wonderland Climate Impact Assessment, which also predicted the following for Wonderland:
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Higher year round temperatures - winters warming
more than summers, with winter warming being greater fa
rther
north; summers warming more in south and central Wonderland
than in the north, due to the moderating effect of the
Wonderland Sea.
- More precipitation in the winter - with the change being greater farther into wonderland. There will be little change in average summer precipitation levels.
- More extreme weather events - both in winter and summer, including heavy summer rainfall and thunder storms.