Climate Change Overview
An overview of the climate change topic
- Created by: ClaireColeman
- Created on: 09-05-15 17:16
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- Climate Change
- Evidence
- Long Term
- Ice Cores
- Greenland
- Antarctica
- 'Ancient Air'
- Fossil/Pollen Analysis
- Ice Cores
- Medium Term
- Dendrochronlogy
- Short Term
- Poems
- Photographs
- Paintings
- Diaries
- Now
- Ice Melt
- Ice/Glacial Retreat
- Monitoring the Environment
- Incomplete and Unreliable?
- Methods/technology may have been inaccurate
- Subjective nature of proxy data
- Dendrochronology only goes back about 8000 years
- Bias data
- Long Term
- Causes of climate change
- Human
- Deforestation
- More CO2
- Unbalanced Albedo
- Burning fossil fuels
- Carbon Dioxide
- Mass Production of Lifestock
- Methane
- Melting of the permafrost
- Methane
- 'Ticking Time Bomb'
- Deforestation
- Natural
- Sunspot Theory
- Magnetic Storms
- 1/10th the effect of greenhouse gases
- Earths Axis
- Volcanic Eruptions
- Mt Tambora 1816
- Solar Cycles
- Every 11 years
- Albedo Effect
- Greenhouse effect
- Sunspot Theory
- Human
- Arctic
- Economic Impacts
- North West Passage
- 2007- free to sail through for the first time in history
- Trade Route
- Ice Melt
- Zinc and Lead
- Industry
- Investment
- Jobs
- Zinc and Lead
- 'Greenland's getting greener'
- Fresh Produce
- Tourism
- North West Passage
- Ecological Impacts
- Polar Bear Extinction
- 2050
- No ice to hunt on
- Cubs die as they cant keep up when swimming
- Reduction of spring hunting season 3 weeks shorter than Hudson Bay 1985
- Negative Multiplier effect on food chains
- Caribou migration changes
- Permafrost melt into Serbia
- Ice Cap 40% smaller in 2014 than in 1981-2010
- Polar Bear Extinction
- Social Impacts
- Inuits
- Change in diet
- Cultural Dilation
- 30% work in tourism
- Loss of homes
- Subsidence
- Flooding
- Inuits
- Economic Impacts
- Africa
- Economic
- Crops cant grow
- Kenya
- Salt Intrusion
- Mangos, Cashew Nuts and Coconuts
- Kenya
- Results in a loss of $6.2billion in GDP
- Seas defences to protect against SLR
- 2030- $10 billion /year
- Crop yields decline by 5-20%
- Sub Saharan
- Better crops
- Ghana
- Lack of investment for tourism
- Crops cant grow
- Enviromental
- Desertification
- Sahel/Madagscar
- Salt Intrusion
- Due to flooding
- Land Degradation
- West flooding
- Ghana erosion rates of 4-8 meters /year
- Loss of land
- Indian ocean- coral bleeching
- Loss of sea defence
- 2100, arid areas increase by 5-8%
- Ice on Kilimanjaro reduced by 80% since 1900
- Desertification
- Social
- 1 million died from malaria per year
- Results in a loss of $6.2billion in GDP
- Food insecurity
- Subsistence farmers
- Somalia
- 260,000 died from famine 2010-12
- Somalia
- Subsistence farmers
- Kill others for water
- Kenya
- Enviromental Refugees
- Ethiopia
- 1 million died from malaria per year
- Economic
- Impacts Examples
- Tuvalu
- Worlds first enviromental refugees
- Islands only just break the surface
- SLR effect on agriculture as cant grow crops
- land too saulty
- Technological fix- UAE building new islands
- Land on pourous corals - cost a fortune
- Maldives
- 80% of 1,200 islands at risk of SLR
- First to sign the Kyoto Potocol
- In 100 years could be uninhabitable, displacing its 360,000 population
- Government
- Teaching enviromnetal science in schools
- Developers can only build on 20% of the land
- Resorts have to go through a rigorous environmental impact study
- Built a 3m wall around capital Male
- UK
- Positive
- Meditterrean summers
- Citris Fruits
- Plant growing season increase
- Tourism
- Plants and crops further notrth
- Negative
- Increase in diseases
- Yellow fever and Malaria
- Flooding of River Thames
- Sea defences
- £10 billion
- Water Shortage
- Increase in diseases
- Positive
- Tuvalu
- Strategies to tackle it
- Mitigation
- Adaption
- Key Players
- Individuals
- 3Rs
- Buy local
- Car Shares
- Energy saving
- National/UK
- Hybrid buses
- Congestion Charges
- Low Emission Zones
- Carbon Offsetting
- International
- Kyoto Protocol
- Discussed 1997 Put in place 2006
- Kyoto Protocol
- Individuals
- 'ACT GLOBAL THINK LOCAL'
- Future
- Tipping point
- Point of no return
- Catrastrophic
- 2 Degree threshold
- Sustainability
- Tipping point
- Evidence
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