GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Special Council Of Lower Canada, Urban Heat Island, Acid Rain
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Human-environment interdependencies; from local to global effects. Large cities: urban heat island, cities enhance climatic events like thunder, hail and fog. Fog: smoke-haze, role of topography, smog trap of la, mexico city and other basins or river valleys. 1st: generation: sulphur-based from coal as fuel and energy source. Acid rain falls from the combination of pollutants and water droplets: acid rain has a ph value < 5. 65, ph scale. 14 = alkaline, basic: sulfuric acid and nitric acid in acid rain cause damage to land, water, forest and buildings. Pollutant traces in the greenland ice cap show upturn in ice deposited after 1750: start of industrial revolution and increase in population. Ambivalent modernization: the health/food benefits that led to population growth and also led to environment pollution. Other interdependencies of nature and society: global warming and the mountain pine beetle, topical lung spores along the straight of georgia, rising sea levels. Municipal responses to kyoto climatic accord: sustainable cities:
