What Climatic Factors Cause the Events?
It is difficult to make broad generalisations about the likely outcomes of the greenhouse effect because of local climatic variability, however, the fundamental effects are predicted to be: • Global warming • Increased climatic volatility and extreme weather • Increased severity of large’scale systems, such as tropical cyclones. These effects translate into potential changes in key climatic variables that may have a significant impact on transport infrastructure location, design, condition or operation. A preliminary risk and response assessment should be undertaken at this stage to identify key transport infrastructure categories and key climatic variables where there is potentially a significant effect and viable response. Other infrastructure categories and climatic variables can then be dropped from further analysis. Resources available for risk assessment and development of adaptation measures can then be targeted at those situations with significant risk potential from climate ch
