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Global Warming - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Examples
        
        Greenland: Experienced increase in growing season since the temperatures have increased
  - - - Car companies are most successful when selling sustainable cars (great change for environment)
        --> US car companies do not meet this and their general motors are falling behind in the economy
        
        Scientists were persecuted, ridiculed and their jobs were taken away since their discoveries concerning global warming covered an inconvenient truth and so they were shut down.
        
        Economically, they were taken of their financial stability and viewing the social aspects it is morally wrong and bias
        
        It is estimated that by 2100, around 2 billion people will have to migrate due to natural disasters and rising sea levels. For one this will negatively impact the economy due to the loss of labour participation and employment.
        
        The migrants are also forced to leave their home due to instability which is socially a very meaningful and difficult step to take since cultures are lost, families separated etc.
        
        There is more poverty due to natural disasters like hurricanes and flooding
      - Examples of impact
        
        Quote by Albert Arnold Gore Jr. : "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary does not depend on it"
        --> example of uneven balance
        --> gold bar on one side vs. our planet on the other
        
        The US Fuel Economy and GHG Emission Standards are the lowest. However, they are expected to rise due to california. (Figure 1)
        
        (Figure 1)
        US fuel economy
- - - - Examples
        
        since ice caps are melting, the polar bear population has decreased drastically
        
        The pine beetle population has increased drastically since winters aren’t long and cold enough to kill them off.
        --> led to over 14 million hectares of spruce trees being killed and cut down.
        
        species loss and extinction rate is 1000 times greater due to global warming
        
        Vertebrates are disappearing 114 times faster
  - - - Old technologies are used for mining at the moment. This contributes negatively to the environment since it creates higher emissions and contributes to CO2 production.
        However, for the economy it is a profit since they are cheaper to use --> therefore there is not present change
      - Amount of permafrost and methane increases
        Permafrost = any ground that remains completely frozen for at least 2 years straight
        More methane in permafrost creates higher levels of methane in atmosphere when released --> contributes to CO2 levels
      - Examples Of Impact
        
        Constant Increase in the average global temperature over the course of decades
        --> the fluctuating pattern on the graphs is caused by seasons (normally present in the northern hemisphere)
        --> when the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun (summer), the amount of CO2 decreases
        --> in Autumn, the leaves fall and "exhale" CO2, so the emissions increase (Figure 1)
        
        the USA accounts for 30.3% of global warming (Figure 2)
        
        (Figure 1)
        Average global temperature increase
        
        (Figure 2)
        USA one of the leading countries contributing to climate change (top grey bar)
  - - - Examples of impact
        
        30% of CO2 which goes into the atmosphere annually is caused by agricultural burning (Figure 1)
        
        2.There is a increased growing season in Greenland
        
        Increased productivity of sour orange trees
        
        There has been a decline in rice yields due to warmer nighttime and minimum temperatures
        --> in cold regions the exact opposite occurs and the increasing temperatures increase the rice yields
        
        Climate change increases wildfire activity. This is fatal to wildlife and plants and destroys ecosystems
        --> also impacts the economy since there is a great loss of crops (i.e. US)
        
        With increased heat periods, and more drought (or desertification) an decrease in agricultural production will occur
        
        (Figure 1)
        Orange=Agriculture --> 1/4
  - - - 5 billion gallons per second of cold water are falling to the ocean bottom due to the melting of ice --> could bring whole ecosystems out of balance due to the drastic temperature chain
        
        If the Oceans would come up beneath land-based and sea-based ice the sea levels would increase by 20 feet (6.09 meters) if all of West Antarctica would or Greenland “melted”
        
        Even though the ice melted would return as water to the ice, it would not freeze but it would rather dig tunnels into the ice called "Moulins"
        --> Moulins are “a vertical or nearly vertical shaft in a glacier, formed by surface water percolating through a crack in the ice.”
        
        Eutrophication caused by: sewage agriculture and industry
        
        Effects coastal marine systems because excess nutrients make it artificially enriched
        --> This is caused by the biotic change in the water
        
        increased CO2 lets plamnts grow better
        
        warmer climates allows plants to grow higher
      - Examples of Impact
        
        1980-1999 the Glacier in Columbia has retreated greatly
        
        Since 2017, there has been a drastic drop in the thickness of ice-caps (diminished by 40% over the last 40 years)
        --> Scientists predict next 50-70 years; the icecap will be completely gone
        
        Lake Chad has dried up over the last decades to almost nothing being left in the present (Figure 1)
        
        January 17, 2002 --> in the course of 25 days, one of the Larsen ice shelves completely disappeared (Figure 2)
        --> The floating sea-level ice cracked up and caused land-based ice to fall down
        
        Ocean currents distribute heat amongst the earth, which increases the pole temperatures by a whole of 12 Fahrenheit
        
        Growth of drought in Niger and Darfur both influences environmental life in these areas but also has severe impacts on native individuals living in these areas since it decreases their quality of life
        
        (Figure 2)
        Disappearance of Larsen Ice Shelf
        
        (Figure 1)
        Image of Lake Chad before and after drying up
        
        6.Around 3 billion animals were killed in the Australian wildfires in 2019 (Figure 3)
        
        Increase in temperatures impacts the natural behaviours of animals
        e.g Bears --> get confused when actual winter occurs (do not eat enough food for hibernation and starve to death)
        Migration of birds: They come back to early from the south and when winter occurs, they freeze/starve to death
        
        (Figure 3)
    - - The Purple bar graphs ob the chart represent amount of floods increased 2010-2015
- - - - (Figure 1)
        Charles David Keeling
  - - - Individuals needs to abandon their jomes due to permaforst and drunken trees since this causes the risk of the properties collapsing
        
        Migration needs to take place due to increased natural disasters caused by rising ocean temperatures
        --> millions of people lose their homes
      - Examples of impact
        
        30 new diseases have emerged due to warmer temperatures (easier for them to form/survive)
        --> e.g SARS
        --> Nile virus spread across the whole country (1993 and 2003, killing over 2,300 people)