Australia and Climate Change Australia is an Oceanic country comprised of 23.8 million citizens and it is set to be one of the countries most affected by climate change. Climate change is defined as a change in weather patterns of a regional or global scale. It has recently come to mean the change humans have affected through use of fossil fuels and other activities leading to greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide emissions. Because Australia consists of an entire continent‚ climate change will affect
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Introduction Climate is a term used to summarise the long term atmospheric elements that cause the short term weather patterns received in a place (“Climate” Britannica 2015). Climate change is the alterations the climate goes through due to a number of factors. These factors can be described as natural or anthropogenic (“Climate Change” Britannica 2015). Natural drivers of climate change are as a result of natural processes such as changes in the solar activity‚ volcanic activity or the Earth’s
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Relationship between Climate Change and Migration There are many ways which people might be displaced or compelled to migrate because of climate change and extreme weather. Rapid – onset events include hurricane and floods which lead to displaced people temporarily. Drought and desertification are called slower – onset events. Despite slower – onset events are a gradual effect of humankind; it can become more dangerous for a long time for environmental and humankind. Droughts have already affected
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Climate change and tropical biodiversity: a new focus Brodie J.‚ Post E.‚ Laurance W. In this review article‚ Brodie et al. expose a different approach to looking at the effects of global climate change on tropical biodiversity. An abundant amount of literature does‚ in fact‚ address the direct effects of climate change on biodiversity in the tropics. Brodie et al. argue‚ however‚ that while these efforts are extremely important and notable for current and future conservation efforts‚ little
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the article “Climate Change‚ Coming home: Global Warming Effects on populations”‚ we have learned from “Sarah DeWeerdt” that global warming lead to more than just one effects on our society. One thing leads to another that leads to anoher and the chain is never ending. The changing in the rainfall frequency leads to insufficient amount and bad quality of the crops which leads to malnutrition. Malnutrition causes diseases. Natural disasters is another the potential affect of the climate change although
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Climate Change Climate change is an incredibly serious issue with so many hazards and risks. If we let it go any further than it already has‚ it will ultimately lower the quality of life on earth‚ as well as cause several more problems‚ as if we already don’t have enough. Yes‚ it will be much warmer‚ and eventually we will have fantastic weather a majority of the time‚ however the amount of disadvantages far outweigh the good. An abundance of animals will slowly begin to go extinct‚ and as the
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Describe and explain the seasonal variations in climate in a tropical region (10 marks) The seasonal variations in climate‚ in a tropical region‚ which includes temperature‚ precipitation and wind direction‚ are due to a number of factors. The tropical continental climate in Africa‚ north of the equator‚ can be described as transitional‚ as it is between the rainforest margins of the central African rainforest and also
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the Gulf of Mexico. In 48 hours it went from a weak tropical depression to a major category 4 hurricane. The rapid intensity of the system led some people to wonder if climate change contributed the its strengthening. While efforts are focused on helping the city of Houston recover the question must be answered ‚ Did climate change intensify Hurricane Harvey? This dangerous hurricane caused many deaths around texas and the southeast‚ it is labeled as a major disaster and it will take houston
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EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON COMFORT LEVELS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN NURSING HOMES IN FLORIDA John Onyango1 & Angelica Tavarez 1 School of Architecture‚ University of Miami‚ USA‚ j.onyango@miami.edu 2 School of Architecture‚ University of Miami‚ USA‚ g.wang2@miami.edu Abstract It is estimated that temperature and humidity levels in Florida will increase on average by between 4° F and 11° F by 2080 due to effects of climate change. This will results in the characteristics of the indoor
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are most likely human induced. Anthropogenic climate change describes this
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