期刊名称：Journal of Earth Sciences and Geotechnical Engineering
印刷版ISSN：1792-9040
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：3
语种：English
出版社：Scienpress Ltd
摘要：Iraq as a country is now suffering fromClimate Change Impacts in similar or even worse ways than many other countriesof the world. The manifestations of these climate changes are being felt inglobal warming, changes to weather driving elements and sea level rise.Increasing temperatures, declining precipitation rates and changed distributionpatterns together with increasing evaporation are causing water stress in Iraq.However, they trigger other changes in a sort of chain reaction; such asdroughts, desertification and sand storms. Iraq is not even safe from theconsequences of sea level rise where the southern part of the Tigris- Euphratesdelta is threatened by inundation and Iraq’s ports and sea coast line areendangered by such projected rise. So far the agricultural sector in Iraq hasbeen hit very badly by the reduced water availability for arable lands; whetherrain fed lands as in the northern part, or irrigated lands using the decliningdischarges of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers as in the southern and middleparts. These discharges have already been additionally strained by the unfair sharingpracticed by Turkey from which most of the two rivers’ water resourcesoriginate. The present negative climate change trends seem to be continuing inthe future as it is obvious from all projections and studies being performed sofar. Loss of cultivable land to desertification, recurrent droughts and sandstorms and declining agriculture are the pattern of change in Iraq’s alreadyfragile environment; and this will result inevitably in much more distress forthe population in the future and will lead to social unrest. These will add tothe great pressures facing all future governments unless the government takesprotective planning and solutions.Keywords: Climate Change, Global Warming,Sea level rise, Desertification, Droughts, Sand Storms.
关键词：Climate Change; Global Warming;Sea level rise; Desertification; Droughts; Sand Storms
