EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ozone Depletion, Cryosphere, Water Vapor
5 May 2019
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Lecture 12: global climate change and human health, ozone depletion and human health, species loss, ecosystem disruption and human health, global climate change and human health. Climate: climate: trends in weather patterns over an extended period of time (years, climate long term change in parameters, weather short term, climate system: interactive system of five compartments. Every time when we have a peak in the concentration of carbon dioxide, we also have a peak in temperature. Temperature is directly proportional to concentration of co2. Electricity generated by coal: coal is a large long-term storage of carbon. Transportation main way how we use liquid fossil fuels. Largest emitters of co2 (2017: china, us, european union, india, russia, japan, germany, iran, south korea, canada. Global climate change: environmental impacts of global climate change. Predicted magnitude of changes: human health impacts of global climate change. Higher temperatures increased range of disease vectors. Coastal flooding impacts on food supplies; refugees.
