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The aim of the chapter Climate Change Is Not a Threat of Future, It Is Already Happening Now is to describe in a very big scale the primary reason of the book – climate change. In the chaos theory, the butterfly effect is a sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Small change (building a green roof) in one state can result in very large differences in a later state (climate change). The chapter is very topical with many political messages such as water problematic, hurricanes, droughts. The chapter provides the reader also new coming terminology – climate refugees. Three climate disaster scenarios – 8.5 RCP, 4.5 RCP and 6 RCP, 2.6 RCP are explained.
Attract people’s attention to climate change is challenging. Climate change is not just about warming. It brings with it an increase in the intensity of rainfall, changes in ecosystems and biodiversity.
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Poórová, Z., Vranayová, Z. (2020). Climate Change Is Not a Threat of Future, It Is Already Happening Now. In: Green Roofs and Water Retention in Košice, Slovakia . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24039-4_2
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