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| define global warming, global climate change, global environmental change. |
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global warming-rising temps
global climate change- series of changes in weather patterns driven by temps resulting in changes in precip, winds, currents, storms
global environ change- includes global climate change along with other changes occuring in global environment |
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| what is the difference between climate change and climate variability? why does this matter when studying environmental variables over time? |
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climate change- persisten change or trend in mean atmospheric conditions
climate variability- day to day weather, short term, seasonal changes |
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| what is the most extreme form of climate change and variability? |
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| what does the historical record indicate about global mean temperature over land and ocean? |
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| what is the greenhouse effect and how does it work? |
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| what is the major greenhouse gas? |
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| what major historical event has resulted in significant increases in greenhouse gas emissions every year since? |
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| why will current precautions to prevent further or reverse global warming trends not take affects for decades to centuries? |
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| what is the relationship between local temperature change and CO2 concentrations? |
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| what has human influence on climate change been doing to global sea level and global precipitation over land and weather extremes? (+ or -) |
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| describe some of the health implications for global climate change? |
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| in addition to health affects, what did prof wilson argue that forced migrations, scarce resources, and increasingly stressed infrastructures would result in? |
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| what is cholera and cryptosporidiosis. how do these relate to climate change? |
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| how does climate change affect vector-borne diseases? |
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| name some categories of diseases that are really climate sensitive. name some that aren't so much. |
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| what is the NAS committee. what are their three main tasks? |
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| what are anthroponoses, zoonoses? which is more easy to study how climate change impacts it why? what is the most complicated scenario? |
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