Week 6: Climate Change
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Changes in meteorological factors
Temperature Humidity Rainfall Atmospheric particle counts Wind
Great ocean conveyor belt
Decrease in warm water flow due to increased warming
Impacts of climate change on human health
40% of world deaths due to environmental degradation
Primary causal pathway
Direct biological consequences of heat waves, extreme weather events, and temperature-enhanced levels of urban air pollutants
Secondary causal pathway
Risks mediated by changes in biophysically and ecologically based processes and systems, particularly food yields, water flows, infectious-disease vectors and intermediate-host ecology
Tertiary causal pathway
More diffuse effects (mental health problems in failing farm communities, displaced groups, disadvantaged indigenous and minority ethnic groups) Consequences of tension and conflict owing to climate change-related declines in basic resources (water, food, timber, living space)