EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Aspirin, List Of Industrial Processes, Hydrosphere
14 Apr 2017
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Climate: climate: trends in weather patterns over an extended period of time (years, climate system: interactive system of five compartments. Processes affecting increase of greenhouse gases: fossil fuels. Residential and commercial uses 14: clearing and burning forests and grasslands, raising large number of livestock (methane, planting of rice (nitrogen, inorganic fertilizers (nitrogen) Largest emitters of co2 (2017: china 29. 51, us 14. 34, european union 9. 62, india 6. 81, russia, japan, germany, iran, south korea 1. 71, canada 1. 54% Global climate change: environmental impacts of global climate change. 0. 18-0. 38m 0. 26-0. 59m: human health impacts of global climate change. Higher temperatures -> increased range of disease vectors. Coastal flooding -> impacts on food supplies; refugees. Extreme weather events -> crop failures, injuries, famine, infectious disease. Spread of tropical diseases to temperate areas. Increased formation of photochemical smog: kyoto protocol on global climate change. International agreement (2005) to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
