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Weather Hazards and Climate Change, Case studies : Typhoon Haiyan…
Weather Hazards and Climate Change
Lesson 1 - 4
Lesson 1 :
The features of the global atmospheric circulation : How circulation cells and ocean currents transfer heat energy across the Earth.
Lesson 2 :
How climate change has changed in the past over different time scales : glacial and inter-glacial periods during the Quaternary period. b. causes
Lesson 3 :
Causes (Milankovitch cycles, solar variation, volcanism) for natural climate change
Lesson 4 :
Evidence of climate change (ice cores, pollen records, tree rings, historical sources).
Lesson 5 - 8
Lesson 5 :
How human activities (industry, transport, energy, farming) produce greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane) that cause the enhanced greenhouse effect.
Transportation
Cars require fuel to move and use a combustion reaction in the engine to drive the car. This causes the car to produce a product from the reaction. Most of the time, this will be complete combustion where carbon dioxide and water are produced. However, sometimes, there will be a lack of oxygen leading to the production of carbon monoxide, carbon and water.
Agriculture
Agriculture could be the farming of cattle which produce methane or the farming of crops.
In developing countries, farms used to feed many require a large amount of room and therefore could require local wildlife and forestry to be destroyed / interrupted. If the trees are destroyed, it will cause the stored carbon dioxide in the tree to be released into the atmosphere and assist in the greenhouse effect by adding more particles to the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere essentially thickening the sheet over our planet
Energy Production
Energy production is a required task to complete in order to maintain the current standard of living we pride ourselves with. This production of energy tends to be through the use of fossil fuels and other non - renewable leading to a shortage and the emmition of carbon which later joins with oxygen to create carbon dioxide which assists in the greenhouse effect.
Industry
Lesson 6 :
Negative effects that climate is having on the environment and people (changing patterns of crop yield, rising sea levels and retreating glaciers).
Lesson 7 :
How has the UK climate changed over time
Lesson 8 :
How the global circulation of the atmosphere leads to tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons)
Lesson 9 - 12
Lesson 9 :
Different social economic and environmental impacts that cyclones can have on a named developed and a named emerging or developing country.
Case study : Hurricane Sandy (USA)
Case study : Typhoon Haiyan (Philippines)
Lesson 10 :
Different responses to tropical cyclones or individuals, organisations and governments in a named developing and a named emerging country. ㅤ Case study : Hurricane Sandy (USA) Case study : Typhoon Haiyan (Philippenes)
Lesson 11 :
Reasons why droughts are hazardous. How the impacts if droughts and ecosystems can vary for a named developing and a named emerging or developing country.
Case study : Australia
Case study : Ethiopia
Lesson 12 :
Different responses to drought from individuals, organisations and governments in a named developed and a named emerging or developing country
The greenhouse effect
Enhanced greenhouse effect
The enhanced greenhouse effect is the human release of gases such as water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and more. Look at lesson 5 for more information on the release of greenhouse gases.
Natural greenhouse effect
Case studies : Typhoon Haiyan (Philippines), Hurricane Sandy (USA), Australian droughts, Ethiopian droughts