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Climate Change—Causes, Impacts, Mitigation: A Review

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Understanding the climate change is the main theme in this paper by reviewing the existing literature available so far. A detailed discussion has been highlighted on the causes like greenhouse effect, human activity and solar irradiance. The evidences such as change in sea level rise in global temperature, warming oceans, shrinking ice sheets, declining Arctic sea ice, glacial retreat, extreme events, ocean acidification and decreased snow cover have been discussed at great length. The consequences are rise in temperature, increase in frost-free season, change in precipitation pattern, more droughts and heat waves, and intense hurricanes. The mitigation, adaptation and the need of climate change research is also an important aspect in this review.

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  1. Shinas College of Technology, Al-Aqur, Shinas, Sultanate of Oman

    Mahmoud Khazalah & Baskar Gopalan

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Khazalah, M., Gopalan, B. (2019). Climate Change—Causes, Impacts, Mitigation: A Review. In: Pradhan, B. (eds) GCEC 2017. GCEC 2017. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 9. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8016-6_53

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