ENV-0007 Midterm: Environmental Biology Exam II Quizlet (Climate Change)
16 Nov 2016
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Study online at quizlet. com/_2r3ex7: adaption vs mitigation, an. Adaption- change in land use, relocation, emergency & business continuity planning, Upgrades or hardening of building and infrastructure, residential programs promoting adaption, health programs. Mitigation- energy conservation and efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable transportation improved fuel efficiency, carbon sinks. This reduces the amount of long-wave radiation that leaves the atmosphere. Trapping more energy in the atmosphere warms the planet: on the other hand, human activities increase the concentration aerosols in the atmosphere. This reduces the amount of short wave radiation that reaches the ground. Once legislation passed, this improved: seeing temperature changes is alarming we have to be contributing, climate. The arab spring and the syrian civil war = crises that climate change influenced, pointing out that drought in russia and china brought about a global food price spike in. 2011 and syria endured five years of devastating drought before war broke out.
