GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Green Building, Extreme Weather, Lightning
25 Aug 2015
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It has now spread to 48 states in the us. Mosquitos can bite birds, transmit virus to birds, therefore virus circulating in nature. West nile will not grow on mosquito until certain temperature: pollen co2 makes plants grow, ragweed grows bigger and more pollen. Since 1900 the amount of pollen double on ragweed. Increase temperature, more co2, harder to get rid of ragweed, but have environmental cost. Transfers cost to children: melting alaska. Rest of world warmed by 1 degree fahrenheit, arctic warmed by 5 degrees. Snow reflects suns heat, absorbs heat, endless cycle of melting: more than 70% of earth"s surface is covered by water, rising sea level. Water increases, expand when heated, level of ocean will rise. Throwing melting glaciers into it, causes level of water to rise along coast lines, west, east, and guelph cost, most of florida. Over half of all us residents live within 50 miles of ocean.
