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Climate Change and its attendant adverse effects has become global phenomenon in time past and recent decades. The study considered Mean Annual Temperature Departures, moving averages for temperature data (1970 – 2010). 40 years inclusive. Also Climate Changed in urban development in a coastal area of Rivers State, Nigeria Evidence indicates contin...
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... Change and its attendant adverse effects has become global phenomenon in time past and recent decades. The study considered Mean Annual Temperature Departures, moving averages for temperature data (1970 – 2010). 40 years inclusive. Also Climate Changed in urban development in a coastal area of Rivers State, Nigeria Evidence indicates continuous rise in temperature characteristic from 1987 to present years for a five year moving average and consequent flooding of the coastal communities of the state after heavy rainfall accompanied by thundering activities. The study recommends the urgent need for the creation or establishment of state commission on Climate Change. Keywords: MAINSTREAMING, CLIMATE CHANGE, DEVELOPMENT, COASTAL, COMMUNITIES, COMMISSION. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Climate is considered as the average weather condition of an atmosphere taken over a long period of time (Gobo and Akpan, 2009). While weather is the instantaneous state or condition of the atmosphere. Weather elements include temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, wind direction, cloud cover and sunshine hours. These weather elements are measured on hourly basis and averaged over twenty four hours of the day. This could be considered for the day, month and year. For climate change estimates, climatologists adopted a period of thirty to fifty years for climate change estimates (Gobo, 2000; Miller 1961). Climate Change is considered as a situation where the weather elements especially air temperature is rising or falling. Recent world climate change estimates indicate that temperature has been rising (IPCC, 2007). Climate change is also defined as any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity. According to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), this refers to a change of climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and that in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods. Rivers State due to its coastal nature, has a high vulnerability risk of climate change and will need to evolve a more proactive mitigation and adaptability strategy towards its environmental management programmes and policies (Fig. ...
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