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Protecting our Health from Climate Change: a Training Course for Public Health Professionals

Protecting our Health from Climate Change: a Training Course for Public Health Professionals. Chapter 2: Weather, Climate, Climate Variability, and Climate Change. Overview: This Module. Define terms

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Protecting our Health from Climate Change: a Training Course for Public Health Professionals

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  1. Protecting our Health from Climate Change: a Training Course for Public Health Professionals Chapter 2: Weather, Climate, Climate Variability, and Climate Change

  2. Overview: This Module • Define terms • Discusses climate change and how has it been determined that humans are influencing the climate • Shows some of the climatic changes that have occurred to date • Shows how climate change will affect the weather for decades to centuries

  3. Weather, Climate, Climate Variability, and Climate Change • Definitions • The greenhouse effect • Detection and attribution of climate change • What changes have occurred • What changes are projected

  4. Definitions • Climate is what you expect • Based on 30-year averages • Weather is what we experience day-to-day • Climate variability • Short-term fluctuations around the average weather • Includes ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) • Climate change • Operates over decades or longer • General circulation models (GCMs) • Scenarios, not predictions

  5. IPCC 2007a

  6. Global Temperature Variations on Three Time Scales Last million years Last 10,000 years Last 1,000 years Folland et al. 1990

  7. Temperature over Greenland over Past 17,000 Years Alley 2000

  8. 1,000 Years of Changes in Carbon Emissions, CO2 Concentrations, and Temperature

  9. IPCC 2007a

  10. IPCC 2007b

  11. IPCC 2007b

  12. Global and Continental Temperature Change IPCC 2007b

  13. Concentrations of Greenhouse Gases over the Last 10,000 Years IPCC 2007b

  14. Concentrations of Greenhouse Gases in the Past 2,000 Years IPCC 2007b

  15. Atmospheric CO2 Concentration and Temperature Change Projected concentrations of CO2 during the 21st century are 2-4 times pre-industrial levels

  16. Global Average Surface Temperature IPCC 2007b

  17. Surface Temperature Anomalies IPCC 2007b

  18. Projected Surface Temperatures IPCC 2007b

  19. Land Areas Warm More than the Oceans with the Greatest Warming at High Latitudes Annual mean temperature change, 2071 to 2100 relative to 1990.Global average in 2085 = 3.1°C. IPCC 2007b

  20. Effect of Extreme Temperatures When the Mean Temperature Increases IPCC 2007b

  21. Observed, Modeled, and Projected Precipitation IPCC 2007b

  22. Some Areas are Projected to Become Wetter, Others Drier Annual mean precipitation change: 2071 to 2100 relative to 1990. IPCC 2007b

  23. IPCC 2007b

  24. Palmer Drought Severity Index IPCC 2007b

  25. Recent Trends in Climate Sensitive Indicators IPCC 2007b

  26. Tropical Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (oC) IPCC 2007b

  27. Sea Level Rise IPCC 2007b

  28. IPCC (2007b) Conclusions IPCC 2007b

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