MAE 124 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sea Level Rise, Economic Indicator, Geopolitics

• School: UCSD
• Department: Mechanical & Aerospace Engin
• Course: MAE 124
• Professor: Jane Teranes

Document Summary

Understand an argument that stabalize climate is an issue of human rights. The geological time in a human-dominated/altered world. General word to define something that humans did. More increase of population growth in developing world. More children because of high infant mortality rate --> more babies. Aquifer: permeable layer in the earth that allows water to collect (underground river) What identify as threats to the secure food supply. Food bubble: increase in food production using on the unsustainable practices (irrigation) Economic indicator: global price of food (grains) Climate change --> drought --> water shortage --> food shortage --> unrest. This amplified the unrest but did not cause it. What two factors caused this increase in co2. There are more co2 going into the atmosphere than it is going out. 9. 1 billion metric tons of co2 going in and only 5 billion metric tons going out. Pre-industrial : 285 ppm of co2 in the atmosphere.