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Lesson 6. Climate Change

Climate change refers to statistically significant changes in climate over long periods of time. It can be caused by both natural factors like volcanic eruptions, orbital changes, and the carbon dioxide theory, as well as human activities that result in emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and halocarbons. Climate change could have severe effects on life forms through consequences such as faster melting of glaciers, increased deaths from malnutrition and heat stress, and risks to coastal ecosystems and weather patterns.

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Lesson 6. Climate Change

Climate change refers to statistically significant changes in climate over long periods of time. It can be caused by both natural factors like volcanic eruptions, orbital changes, and the carbon dioxide theory, as well as human activities that result in emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and halocarbons. Climate change could have severe effects on life forms through consequences such as faster melting of glaciers, increased deaths from malnutrition and heat stress, and risks to coastal ecosystems and weather patterns.

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Lesson 6

Climate Change
 It refers to the statistically significant
changes in climate for continuous period of
time.
 Factors that contribute to climate change
- natural internal process
- external forces
- anthropogenic changes in composition of
the atmosphere or in land use
- natural occurrences
 Natural Causes
1. Volcanic Eruptions
- emits different natural aerosols
like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide,
salt crystals, volcanic ashes/dust,
and even microorganisms.
-Can cause a cooling effect to the lithosphere
because its emitted aerosol can block a certain
percentage of solar radiation
 Natural Causes
2. Orbital Changes
- Milankovitch Theory- “As the
Earth travels through space
around the Sun, cyclical
variations in 3 elements
(Eccentricity, Obliquity, and
Precession) of Earth-Sun
geometry combine to produce
variations in the amount of solar
energy that reaches Earth.
 Natural Causes
2. Orbital Changes
- Milankovitch Theory
> Eccentricity- shape of
Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
> Obliquity- variation of
the tilt of Earth’s axis away from
the orbital plate.
> Precession- change or
orientation of Earth’s rotational
axis.
 Natural Causes
3. The Carbon Dioxide Theory
- CO2 is produced by burning coal, oil and
other fossil fuels
- It absorbs part of the infrared radiation in the
air and returns it to the ground keeping the air
near the surface warmer than it would be if
CO2 did not act like a blanket.
 Human Activities
- Result in emissions of 4 principle greenhouse
gases:
1. Carbon dioxide
2. Methane
3. Nitrous oxide
4. Halocarbons (Flourine, Chlorine, Bromine)
 Human Activities
- Ozone
- Another greenhouse gas that is continually
produces and destroyed in the atmosphere by
chemical reactions
- Halocarbons
- Destroy ozone in the stratosphere and have
caused the ozone hole over Antarctica.
 Climate change could cause severe effects to
all life forms.
 It directly affects the basic elements like
water, food, health, use of land, and the
environment.
 Rise of global temperature by 2-3°C will
cause glaciers to melt faster.
 It will increase worldwide deaths from
malnutrition and heat stress.
 Vector borne diseases could become
widespread
 Serious risks and increasing pressures for
coastal protection.
 Ecosystems will be vulnerable to climate
change.
 May induce sudden shifts in regional weather
patterns like the monsoons, or the El Nino.

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