Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Arctic Sea Ice Decline, Climate Change Mitigation, Waterborne Diseases
9 Feb 2018
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Lecture 19 case study: climate change and health policy. 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. 95% chance that the changing climate currently is due to human activity and is not natural. Especially the top layer (first 700m) has warmed 0. 3 degrees since 1970. Glacial retreat: glaciers retreating all around the world. In the last 100 years the ocean has risen 8 inches. Increasing breaking temperature records, more intense rain fall, more intense storms. Ocean acidification: acidity of the surface layer of the ocean is increasing by 30, result of co2 being absorbed by the ocean.
