Impact Post

The IPCC report for 2007 talks about the climate change for Europe and the Mediterranean. what is interesting is that they predict that in central Europe the precipitation will increase during the winter time and decrease during the summer time. the summer season is when the crops grow and can be harvested at the end of the summer, but if precipitation decrease's in the summer that means a drought.  The IPCC also believes that the winter season will be shorter and not as much snow as well even though the precipitation is supposed to go up in the winter. the IPCC says that there will be a decrease in snow cover and create a positive feedback loop and more warming.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch11.html

The IPCC is saying that central Europe and Europe in general will be impacted negatively due to climate change. Some impacts will be high water stress, health risks, and forest productivity, and an increase in fires. For water Stress they say that impounding rivers to form in-stream reservoirs are being created, but it costs a lot of money to do this. The IPCC is also saying that irrigation will be reduce by planting and harvesting different crops that will work with climate change. Europe in general are creating early warning systems and emergency plans to protect the peoples health during floods and heat waves.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/spm.html

The IPCC says that Europe is expected to warm all over, hazards will mostly increase, changes in natural resources and assets, water stress, economic activity, extreme climate events, and only a few governments and institutions are looking at what measures should be taken. warming is going to change what crops and animal species will grown and inhabit an ecosystem. A few hazards that the IPCC has looked at is winter floods, droughts, and fires. All of these hazards will increase in either intensity or a longer season of some of them. As warming will effect the northern and southern Europe more in that trees will decrease in south Europe and increase in north Europe. All over Europe will have to change what crops get planted where.  Water stress will become a problem because of droughts in the summer when crops grow.The IPCC expects a growth in amphibians and reptiles over Europe. A few countries are creating early warming systems for major climate events.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/contents.html

As Switzerland is located int the Alp mountain range, they received a lot of tourism during the winter season.  A big threat to Switzerland will be not as much snow fall in the winter. Switzerland receives lots of tourism during this time because people like to go skiing and snowboarding. If these is not very much snow fall on the Alps mountain range then people will not be able to go skiing or snowboarding during the winter. Switzerland is similar to Colorado in the United States because they both depend on the snow fall for tourism in their country.

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/alps.htm