Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture 20: Lecture 20

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Melanie Mc Phail

Document Summary

Lecture 20 - case study: climate change and. Be able to describe the relationship between climate change and human health, specifically the links between individual effects of climate change (such as rising sea levels) and the respective health concerns. Be able to explain how the effects of climate change and climate change mitigation efforts are inequitable. Be able to identify possible mitigation efforts that would address both equity and climate change. Climate change is real and is happening, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence for it. Current trend that were in is not part of a regular cycle of changing temperature. 95% due to human activity: occurring at an unprecedented rate. Faster than we have ever seen: average surface temp of planet has rise by 2 f. Most of this happening in the past 30 years. Shrinking ice sheets: massive amounts of ice sheet shrinking in green land and antarctica in a short period of time.