The survey coordinated by CRC on the effects of climate change on coastal waters tends to prove that "global overheating is affecting many European ecosystems, in many ways". "As an example reads the report , the water temperature of the northern regions has evolved differently to that of the Mediterranean waters. Around Scotland, the sea temperature has increased by about 1°C in the last 20 years, while the temperature of the Mediterranean Sea has increased by about 0.5°C". According to the report, "the sea level too has changed unevenly". The authors state that the change in sea levels "affects the other critical processes, such as tides, sea ice, evaporation and tectonic phenomena, such as the rising of earth masses due to the melting of glaciers, that demand special attention and permanent monitoring". The CRC paper then looks at the way "slight changes in the pressure permanently applied to the environment, for instance the rise in greenhouse gases, the rising of surface temperatures, sea levels, do generate catastrophic climatic phenomena", such as "torrential rains, dryness, storms and floods, that have huge costs in terms of human losses and environmental damage".
