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Human health, agriculture, natural ecosystems, coastal areas, and heating and cooling requirements are examples of climate-sensitive systems. Rising average temperatures are already affecting the environment. Some observed changes include shrinking of glaciers, thawing of permafrost, later freezing and earlier break-up of ice on rivers and lakes, lengthening of growing seasons, shifts in plant and animal ranges and earlier flowering of trees IPCC, Global temperatures are expected to continue to rise as human activities continue to add carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
The extent of climate change effects, and whether these effects prove harmful or beneficial, will vary by region, over time, and with the ability of different societal and environmental systems to adapt to or cope with the change. The following information was taken from the U. Human health is strongly affected by social, political, economic, environmental and technological factors, including urbanization, affluence, scientific developments, individual behavior and individual vulnerability e.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, concluded: Human beings are exposed to climate change through changing weather patterns for example, more intense and frequent extreme events and indirectly through changes in water, air, food quality and quantity, ecosystems, agriculture, and economy. At this early stage the effects are small but are projected to progressively increase in all countries and regions.
Given the complexity of factors that influence human health, assessing health impacts related to climate change poses a difficult challenge. Furthermore, climate change is expected to bring a few benefits to health, including fewer deaths due to exposure to cold. Nonetheless, the IPCC has concluded that, overall globally , negative climate-related health impacts are expected to outweigh positive health impacts during this century IPCC, At the same time, the quality of medical care and public health systems in the United States may lessen climate impacts on human health within the United States.
Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes, such as droughts, floods and severe storms. The forces that shape our climate are also critical to farm productivity. Human activity has already changed atmospheric characteristics such as temperature, rainfall, levels of carbon dioxide CO 2 and ground level ozone. The scientific community expects such trends to continue.
While food production may benefit from a warmer climate, the increased potential for droughts, floods and heat waves will pose challenges for farmers. Additionally, the enduring changes in climate, water supply and soil moisture could make it less feasible to continue crop production in certain regions.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, concluded: Recent studies indicate that increased frequency of heat stress, droughts and floods negatively affect crop yields and livestock beyond the impacts of mean climate change, creating the possibility for surprises, with impacts that are larger, and occurring earlier, than predicted using changes in mean variables alone.
This is especially the case for subsistence sectors at low latitudes. Climate variability and change also modify the risks of fires, pest and pathogen outbreak, negatively affecting food, fiber and forestry. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, concluded that there may be significant regional transitions associated with shifts in forest location and composition in the United States due to climate change.
Climate change is likely to alter the geographic distribution of North American forests, including regionally important tree species, such as New England sugar maples and boreal forests in Alaska. The effects of climate change on forests in the United States and other parts of the world will depend not only on climatic factors but also on stresses from pollution e. It is difficult to separate the influence of climate change from these other pressures. Climate-change effects on forests are likely to include changes in forest health and productivity and changes in the geographic range of certain tree species.
These effects can in turn alter timber production, outdoor recreational activities, water quality, wildlife and rates of carbon storage. Climate is an integral part of ecosystems and organisms have adapted to their regional climate over time.
An ecosystem is an interdependent, functioning system of plants, animals and microorganisms. An ecosystem can be as large as the Mojave Desert or as small as a local pond. Without the support of the other organisms within their own ecosystem, life forms would not survive, much less thrive.
Such support requires that predators and prey, fire and water, food and shelter, clean air and open space remain in balance with each other and with the environment around them. Climate change is a factor that has the potential to alter ecosystems and the many resources and services they provide to each other and to society.
Human societies depend on ecosystems for the natural, cultural, spiritual, recreational and aesthetic resources they provide. In various regions across the world, some high-altitude and high-latitude ecosystems have already been affected by changes in climate.
These changes can cause adverse or beneficial effects on species. For example, climate change could benefit certain plant or insect species by increasing their ranges. When doing this, the team found the muons wobbled in unpredictable ways, defying the fundamental theory of how particles interact. The Fermilab experiment builds on a previous experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory around 20 years ago. The results of the experiment are to be published in a set of papers submitted to several peer-reviewed journals.
Elsewhere, there have been other experiments hinting at a new kind of physics. Last month, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva found unstable particles that fail to decay as the standard model suggests. From transport and housing to food production and fashion , our civilisation is driving climate and ecological breakdown. To truly bring ourselves into harmony with the natural world, we must return to seeing humanity as part of it.
Though a varied and complex story, the widespread separation of humans from nature in Western culture can be traced to a few key historical developments, starting with the rise of Judeo-Christian values years ago. Prior to this point, belief systems with multiple gods and earth spirits, such as paganism , dominated.
They generally considered the sacred to be found throughout nature, and humanity as thoroughly enmeshed within it. When Judaism and Christianity rose to become the dominant religious force in Western society, their sole god — as well as sacredness and salvation — were re-positioned outside of nature. The Old Testament taught that God made humans in his own image and gave them dominion over the Earth.
As historian Lynn White famously argued, such values laid the foundations of modern anthropocentrism, a system of beliefs that frames humans as separate from and superior to the nonhuman world. Indeed, those who hold literal beliefs in the Bible tend to express significantly more concerns over how environmental degradation affects humans than animals. As the only rational beings, Descartes saw humans as wholly separate from and superior to nature and nonhuman animals, who were considered mere mindless machines to be mastered and exploited at will.
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