GCU Climate Change and Natural Disasters Discussion

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1)  Discuss the difference between anthropogenic and natural causes attributed to climate change. Discuss whether or not you classify climate change as the major environmental health challenge of the 21st century. Explain your reasoning and provide evidence to support your claim. 

2)Local environmental concerns, what is in the district of columbia that you do not know about?

2)How are global weather patterns affected by climate change? Discuss one other consequences of climate change. Describe at least one current environmental health problem that will likely be exacerbated by climate change. What types of policymakers should be involved, and at what levels (local, regional, international), to consider the issue and provide intervention strategies?

3)Effects of climate change

Increasing temperatures caused by climate change will make the water of the oceans expand; ice melting in the Antarctic and Greenland will also contribute to the sea level. Greater sea levels will threaten the low-lying coastal areas, millions of areas of land will be at danger from flooding; causing people to leave their homes. Low lying areas in cities will be hugely affected by the rising sea. Changes in weather will affect many crops grown around world. As climate change takes place, our daily weather and normal temperatures will change, the homes of plants and animals will be affected all over the world.

Discuss how displaced people could affect public health?

4)Global Warming

Global warming is a term that indicates “rising global air temperatures.” This has the potential to cause dramatic changes in the environment by “disrupting the equilibrium between incoming solar energy and the thermal energy that is reradiated away from the surface. Global warming has been attributed to the “greenhouse effect,” or gases in the atmosphere absorbing infrared radiation and preventing it from being released into space. The causes of global warming are still unsure. Scientists do not know whether to attribute the climate changes to human activity or to natural changes in the environment. However, burning forests, factories, power plants, and automobiles are human-caused factors that release carbon dioxide and water vapor (Keating, 2016).

Does cattle farming truly contribute to global warming?

5)Evaluate a significant environmental change occurring in your region (wildfires, higher-than average temperatures, droughts, floods, etc.). Create a 10-15 slide PowerPoint presentation explaining how natural disasters are influenced by climate change. For the presentation of your PowerPoint, use Loom to create a voice-over or a video. Refer to the topic Resources for additional guidance on recording your presentation with Loom. Include an additional slide for the Loom link at the beginning, and an additional slide for references at the end. Include the following:

  1. Describe the natural disaster. Discuss how climate change has contributed to the natural disaster that is causing the environmental change. Discuss the potential anthropogenic and natural causes. Provide evidence to support your claims.
  2. Describe the human population health issues likely to be exacerbated by the environmental change. Identify one or more surveillance reports and discuss data from these sources relevant to the event and region. Discuss the methods used in data collection. Use a table or graph to display your findings.
  3. Explain the impact climate change is projected to have on animal and ecosystem health in your region.
  4. Discuss how your region's environmental policy, or lack of policy, has influenced and shaped the response to the environmental change.
  5. Explain how local and regional environmental policies have a global impact when it comes to climate change.
  6. Explain how the people in your region, including community members and leaders, perceive the concept of climate change. How do their opinions regarding climate change affect the environmental policy in your region? Describe some of the challenges to addressing climate change in your region.


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Running head: CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSES AND EFFECTS

Climate change causes and effects
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CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSES AND EFFECTS
Climate change causes and effects
Question #1
Climate change is the gradual change of regional or global climate patterns due to
increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or varying temperatures on earth. The significant
causes of climate change include natural and anthropogenic factors (Stern & Kaufmann, 2014).
Examples of anthropogenic factors contributing to climate change include fossil fuels to produce
energy, deforestation, oil spillage in oceans, and agriculture, among others. Natural causes of
climate change include volcanic eruptions, changes in ocean currents, solar variation, and orbital
earth changes (Stern & Kaufmann, 2014).
The significant difference between anthropogenic and natural causes is that
anthropogenic factors are point sources and can be controlled. In contrast, natural causes are nonpoint sources and cannot be controlled (Zhai et al., 2018). For example, governments can control
the amount of carbon dioxide released as smoke by vehicles and factories through policing. At
the same time, it is impossible to control the amount of carbon dioxide and other gases released
into the atmosphere during an eruption (Zhai et al., 2018). Therefore, anthropogenic factors of
climate change are easy to control compared to natural causes.
Climate change is a significant environmental health challenge of the 21st century for its
ripple effects leading to diseases and infections (Caminade et al., 2019). For example, climate
change has led to the depletion of the ozone layer, which has led to increased UVB reaching the
earth’s surface. Increased exposure to UVB light results in non-melanoma skin cancer leading to
malignant growth. Rising temperatures in some regions due to climate change offers disease
spreading organisms such as mosquito conducive environment shifting the burden of diseases
such as dengue fever, malaria, West Nile virus, among others (Caminade et al., 2019). Increasing

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CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSES AND EFFECTS
the concentration of carbon dioxide and other Green House Gases will increase the prevalence of
respiratory and cardiovascular conditions. As such, climate change should be addressed as a
significant environmental health challenge of the 21st century.

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Reference
Caminade, C., McIntyre, K. M., & Jones, A. E. (2019). Impact of recent and future climate
change on vector‐borne diseases. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1436(1),
157.
Stern, D. I., & Kaufmann, R. K. (2014). Anthropogenic and natural causes of climate
change. Climatic change, 122(1), 257-269.
Zhai, P., Zhou, B., & Chen, Y. (2018). A review of climate change attribution studies. Journal of
meteorological research, 32(5), 671-692.


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Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN WASHINGTON DC

Environmental concerns in Washington DC
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ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN WASHINGTON DC
Environmental concerns in Washington DC
Question #2
In the recent past, there has been an increase in environmental concerns in the District of
Columbia. Increased precipitation, where a month’s worth of rain was unleashed in an hour,
rising temperatures, rising sea level, and increased vector-borne diseases such as malaria are
some occurrences in the recent past in DC (Fleet, 2020). More land, over 1300 acres, lies below
six feet above the high tide threatening the district of flooding. The need to overcome such
challenges has led to the implementation of various policies to control climate change
(Adaptation Clearing House, 2021). For example, DC leads in all of the US in adopting the
Clean Energy Omnibus Amendment Act in 2018 under the leadership of Mayor Bowser.
The act was enacted to control human activities, consequently reducing emissions to the
atmosphere, which will help to reduce the effects of climate change, such as rising temperatures
and increased precipitatio...


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