Explain how climate change can exacerbate non-point source pollution.

Explain how climate change can exacerbate non-point source pollution.

• A. Climate change reduces rainfall and decreases erosion.
• B. Climate change has no impact on non-point pollution.
• C. Increased rainfall intensity and extreme events raise runoff and erosion; warmer temperatures boost algal blooms; changes in snowmelt timing alter pollutant transport.
• D. Only urban upwelling reduces pollutants.

Answer: (C)