✓Understand climate projections and local variability
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It is 3:00 pm in Castries, St Lucia. The air feels hotter than usual, and the afternoon shower is either missing or arriving as a short, intense downpour. Down the coast, waves reach farther up the beach than they did when your parents were your age. Future climate change is not only about temperature; it can shift rainfall, raise sea level, and increase stress on coasts, water supplies, and ecosystems.
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Before today, had you studied grades 9–11 geography?
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Which Caribbean places are most at risk from sea-level rise, mountain villages or low-lying coastal towns? Why?
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It is 3:00 pm in Castries, St Lucia. The air feels hotter than usual, and the afternoon shower is either missing or arriving as a short, intense downpour. Down the coast, waves reach farther up the beach than they did when your parents were your age. Future climate change is not only about temperature; it can shift rainfall, raise sea level, and increase stress on coasts, water supplies, and ecosystems.