Climageddon Final

iowa climate statement for 2014 was written by professor throne. name some aspects of climate change that is affecting public health in the state.

1. caused by flooding. exposed to raw sewage and infections. also they harm buildings. 2. plants: creating longer allegery seasons 3. vectors: zika

give three pieces of evidence that the earth has warmed over the last 150 years

1. flooding and droughts 2. forest fires 3. spring coming sooner every year 4. highest temps. recorded 5. migration of plants and animals 6. ice and snow 7. sea level rise 8. more evaporation of sea levels

two effects of climate change on human health

1. higher temps. higher chance of disease outbreak EX: anthrax outbreak 2. more serve allergie seasons due to longer growing season, new allergens, stronger allergn plants

name three public health effects associated with a warmer world

1. longer allergy seasons with stronger allergens 2. high temps. lead to increase in aggresison and violence 3. warmer world allows for infectous diseases to spread easier for example the anthrax outbreak from thawing reindeer

Aedes albopictus is a disease vector for Zika, chikungunya and dengue fever. what type of organisum is it? and what is a disease vector?

1. mosquito 2. transmittor of a disease for example a deer tick is a vector for limes disease.

changing climate has caused which two plants to become more a public health threat?

1. poison ivy 2. ragweed> allergies

throne talked about advantages of nuclear over wind and solar. name two advanatges

1. provides power 24/7 7 days a week no matter what weather 2.can be placed anywhere and closer to cities so shorter transportation of power and not occupying lots of land

why are islands like kiribati and tuvalu in danger? 1.whata are specicific aspects of climate change affecting them and their people? 2. besides loss of homes what else is in danger?

1. sea level rise is effecting them and more frequent and intense weather events. these are areas of great biodiversity and at the greatest risk . 2.loss of their cultral as well as many species of plants and animals

picking just two points on the curve can lead one to incorrect conclusions. for instance comparing 1998 to 2008, only one could claim the earth has stopped warming. why is this conclusion incorrect? would it have been incorrect in the year 2008?

1. the axis shows the earth is still warming by +1.0 and we have to take a look at the steady increase in earths temp. 2. still was +1.0 in 2008

there are three components to milankovitch cycles

1. tilt: the earth is on a tilt which changes over years from 22-24. this tilt causes us to experience seasons on earth 2. precision: the earth is like a spinning top and wobbles on its axis 3.eccentricity: no perfect circle but ellipse

2 disadvantages of climate engineering approaches that reduce incidenet solar engery. (solar umbrellas)

1. very expensive and hard to engineer 2. massive scale up 3. efficetness may fall short 4. don't understand climate change well enought

besides birth and death rate name two important demogrpahic characterirscs of a population that affect their growth

1.average household income 2. education of women

which of the following was the hottest year worldwide in at least the last 140 years

2016

what % of iowa's in state engird came from wind in 2016

36%

approximately how much carbon dioxide in parts per million is in the atmosphere today?

400 ppm

which of the following diseases has moved it range northward in the last 5 years?

Chikungunya virus disease

how can some of the limitations of solar and wind be overcome cheaply in the US?

Elon Musk (founder of Tesla and space X) or other inventors should be given money to develope cheap electric storage

james hanson

NASA scientist who found the missing heat that should come with an increase in greenhouse gasses in the deep ocean

how might climate change effect water resources cause contaimation and force facilities to relocate?

flooding can contaminate the water. for example in iowa city the water plant flooded and they were forced to reloact away from flooding areas Also longer summer= more water evaporate from large bodies like great lakes

reduce emmisons of individual vechiles

good MPG or using cars like tesla. car pooling or walking or biking

who was Svante Arrhenius and what did he find, calculate or discover?

he calculated the effect increased CO2 would have on global warming

according to S. Weart the scientific community at first rejected the arrhenius theroy that greenhouse gases are important in the changes in climates. why?

his theory did not fit the model that the earth is always in balance

which of the following record were set in the year 2016?

hottest year to date, coral bleaching expanded at record rate, longest string of each month hotter than the same month in previous year, a crusie ship passed over arctic through northwest passage

in the US the costliest of the billion dollar disaster have been which

hurricanes

ships are beginning to travel over Canada between neuron and china instead of taking a longer route. what effect does the loss of sea ice have on earth climate?

ice has a higher albedo than open water so more energy is retained

besides the threat of drowning, what public health effects are associated with floods?

it exposes people to mold that delves in their houses. also raw sewage that has over flown from the flooding. also creates massive crop loss if the fields are flood and creates food problems. also create alga blooms in the water which contaimate it

the weather service in the US used words like "unprecedented" to describe the Hurricane Harvey that just hit Texas. How would you explain the relationship between hurricane Harvey and climate change?

it is like an athlete on steroids who is breaking records that have never been broken before. the Texas population has grown a lot over the last few years and now they just received 50 inches of rain in a few days. - we cant say it "caused" it but climate change worsened impact

when it comes to expectations for loss of arctic sea ice, what can be said about the accuracy of models?

models have predicted much less ice loss than has happened

what is the problem with devoting so much agriculture production to fuel and producing these commondiites the way farmers do?

not a lot of corn and soybeans does to food production. they try to fit as many in a field and get rid of waterways then polluting the water nearby. -soil erosion -water quality -land could be used for food -water quantity more energy to make than we get out

in his ted talk in class Han Rolling used colored plastic boxes and models to illustrate what major point?

only be racing living standards can we check poplutation growth. gap between west and rest. child survual is new green

if long term rises and falls in concentration CO2 did not initate glacial cycles over the northern hemisphere what did?

planets orbit around the sun (Milovich cycle)watched the timing of ice ages with starling persion. amount of sunlight feel on given latitude and season varied predictably

why is the world primary sit for trafficking atmospheric CO2 concentration in Mauna Loa Hawaii?

right by the ocean and volacones so there are not huge emmison soucres and is purest form of air in the US

in 2001 the IPCC stated " the balance of evidence suggest a discernible human influnence in global climate" since then?

the IPCC is more sure humans are major cause of warming

professor Bradley Cramer the dominant force behind earth's climate change during the last 800,000 years has been what?

the earths orbit around the sun (milanvoitk cycle)

what is the "hockey stick" graph attrited to our textbook author Michael Mann?

the hockey stick graph is showing how our earth temp. was pretty steady but in recent years it has spiked and been on a steady increase

the EPA regulates air emissions because they are directed to by the clean air act. specifcally green house gasses, the EPA role has been defined by which of the following?

the law suit filed by massachuetts and other decided by the US supreme court in 2007

greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are significant in the US and the world. what are most agriculture sources of GHGs and which agriculture greenhouse gases is most signifcant?

the main source is from fertilizers rice production and cattle and agriuclutre soils. the most significant is methane from cattle

more recently the IPCC has gone beyond the physical to talk about behavior of humans. describe the use of "storyline scenarios"

they set up "futures" of worst, bad and best case snerioies

what did the few professors who signed the 2010 climate report hope to acccomplish?

they wish to show that climate change is real and affecting Iowa now

according to Professor Cramer if all glaciers melted every major coastal city in the world would be under water

true

evidence exists to describe X world wide mass extinctions in the history of earth. what is X? what is the number of mass extinctions up tot he time humans began to populate the earth?

x is the 6th mass extinction and the number of mass extinctions up to this time was 5

Dr thornier described a device for collecting ocean data called ARGO. what is ARGO and what does it do?

a drifting buoy that collects temp. salinity and pH. the total cycle is 10 days it starts by drifting on surface then descends and drifts some more then descends to final depth after this it ascends it collect temp.

Micheal Mann

author of hockey stick curve

why does the keeling curve the describes the increase in atmospheric CO2 since 1959 have a saw tooth pattern?

because of seasons. plants take in more CO2 when blooming also bc there is more land in north it is why the opppiste seasons in north and south dont make it a steady increase

describe the relationships between the yearly emissions of CO2 and the gross domestic product (GDP) of devleoping countries like china and india over the past 50 years

both GDP and emissions have grow together

climate change affects rainfall which damages trees affect forest cover warms ground and reduces the fruit for the food for many species. land use changes by cutting forest for lumber and cattle pastures take away much of the range for species. where are these effects taking place?

brazilian and other rain forests

Roger Revelle

brought scientists together at Scripps Institute to advance climate theroy

how has researched a changing climate been financed in the US if not by universities?

by military and government agencies such as NASA. militrary first intrested in it and gave money to fund it during the cold war

in carbon capture and sequestration what is capture and how is it sequesterd?

carbon capture: from gas exhust prior to relase into air sequestrain: pressurized to superciritcal fluid and injected deep underground or under sea - cost -doesnt capture all CO2 -doesnt lower current CO2 levels -catosptrophic relase -ocean=acidfication -china and india must do

which are man green house gasses

carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide

Svante Arrhenius

considered the author of the theory that greenhouse gasses are responabile for climate change and long wave radiation

professor osterberg spoke of future of nuclear power. why does he believe it is not bright? discuss existing and new and any difference between countries

does not believe in nuclear because of economic reasons. the cost to build is very pricey and recent plants have been shut down after just being built. to expensive

reduce emmisons of mass transit

electric buses trainband light rails that require plug ins

describe what is meant by "carrying capacity" of earth

estimated around 2 billion. things the influence this are liveable land, access to water to drink and farm, consumption of energy, floods, droughts, fires, famine, standard of living, techonolgy. effect how many people the earth can support