Monday, December 14, 2009

Global Warming Effects to Mental Health

Climate change has been knock down across the world. Some examples: the increasing frequency of storms, glacier melt quickly, crop failure and rising sea level. Major states of the United States, California, one of the countries that have experienced this misery, from global warming, droughts, heat waves, reduced snow in mountainous areas, etc.

Climate change not only in view of the harsh weather, the more details main effects of global warming is human health. Shift the disease today, especially in the mosquito. Malaria appear in the air because population in certain areas. For example in Africa, because the air is too cold, the mosquitoes are not move up to mountain. But if the air temperature is changed, the mosquitoes will rise higher into the mountains. For example there are several major cities in Africa, namely Nairobi and Harar which was in places up on the mountain to avoid malaria.

Expansion of other disease vectors are:
Increased vomiting due warming aqueduct are enter the result to environment insects growing better. Rising sea levels, caused by the displacement of coastal residents with health-related effect. Improvement in psychological aberration, because climate change could also cause stress to person. Stress is not all negative, and could also encourage a person to act, the possibility is good, but obviously there is the downside. There will be psychological stress on the population of refugee.
As a result of all possible emergence of new lifestyles resulting from climate change are also more real. Some people try to adjusting conditions of the hot weather, for example, more often wear thin clothes, making the house a lot of ventilation, car air-conditioned, etc.
If the global warming problem is not immediately be taken seriously, it does not close possibility of chaos. Chaos is not only environmentally but also in a human. Because everyone wants to get comfortable life. Today, the comfort it must be fought with a variety of ways. Law of the jungle can not even inevitable.

The scientists have seen major impact of climate change on public health's most vulnerable citizens of children in developing countries. There has been systematic research on health effects, because of climate change began in 2000 there were 150,000 premature deaths around the world. Now that the research was on repeat. Will grow the problem is not the 150,000, in the fact that it developed and the suspect will be many. This idea of this impact throughout the word distribution. and 88% of the impacts that are childrens of the world into three, because they are fragile, malnutrition, who had no access to health services, those who live in poor environments. So they will suffer because the health effects of climate change.

The fact is concerned with the health impact of climate change, in fact the children, especially children in Africa, India, and the poorest places in Latin America. And it is because of malaria, vomiting, malnutrition or other effects of health, climate change due to changes in agricultural productivity in areas where sea levels have risen right in the corner of malnutrition.

Climate change will increase water pollution in the open air, especially ozone, because right now it is a function of temperature and sunlight. Before civilization and agriculture all of these things happened within a period of very stable climate in the Holocene call ten thousand years from being born. Previously the ice age. Ice age climate is much more turbulent and there are strong changes; only in a few years the climate will change from one state and then back again.
But at a time when civilization mankind has existed, the climate is very stable and now they threatened to a climate in which human beings as a species never seen before.

But the other, apart from a volcanic explosion that emits large amounts of carbon dioxide, this is a human caused by the accumulation of carbon dioxide gas from fossil that is very high. That matter human right can doubt the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and compare that with how much fossil fuel that be fueled by human, and it is clear that carbon dioxide levels rise due to human activities. Not because of the volcano or something else like that.

But the effect would be similar to what humans see in the past. The earth will heat up in a similar way and the result will be similar. There used to be a climatic conditions 55 million years ago that the maximum condition called Paleocene-Eocene thermal and so is not clear what happened, but there was some release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from the earth quickly, in approximately the instant of ten thousand year, they do not know exactly how much how long in need. But the amount of carbon in the release may be compared with the amount of coal that people have or the amount of methane hydrate. And then the earth heats up and then it took 150,000 years for the climate to recover from it which is the same length that the need for Earth to recover from global warming, too.

Carbon dioxide during the release in the air, it will only accumulate in the atmosphere and ocean system needs a very long time to recover. Earth has a mechanism to stabilize the climate, is like a miracle to imagine, but it looks correct. But these mechanisms to stabilize the climate working very slowly because of ice melting drastically in the summer.

The destruction of the Wilkins ice shelf in the Antarctic in 2008 in which the pieces of ice for 406 square miles of crumbling into the sea. Attract attention and global forces of climate change beyond the level of scenarios. The worst case made by the Intergovernmental Panel United Nations on climate change.

Definition: sea ice plays an important role in climate because the sun reflecting back to sky and when sea ice melts, the sun was shining in the Arctic during the year, for 24 hours a day in summer. So there are lots of sunlight, then it began to absorb sunlight. And it can add to the Arctic climate with a very strong and it indirectly affects the methane gas. And also a layer of ice on the Green Land and the circulation of the North Atlantic and many other things in high places.

Are levels of carbon dioxide in the air right now and anything previously before people realize that there is global warming is in progress. These levels in 1750, no one can measure the levels at the time, but humans have a wave of air trapped in ancient ice cores. So humans can measure and know that at that time before human activities, levels of carbon dioxide is about 280 parts per million. One million molecules of air, 280 of them is carbon dioxide. Which is currently up to 380 or 385.

Before the period of hot climate in the last ice age, levels of CO2 in the air is around 200. So the change from 200 to 280 was enough to change Earth's climate from the ice world in which time there were two miles above the human head. Being interglacial world.

Ice core data that tells us of the value in the year 1750 or the current ice age 800,000 years back and this time CO2 levels much higher than had ever occurred during a period of 800,000 years.

In the history of the earth, mankind has experienced global warming before it. Recovered from humans and humans into the period of glacier ice and humans become hot again. Share this post :
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