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Bey Climate Changes 9.16
Bey Climate Changes 9.16
Emergency Medicine
Tareg Bey, MD, FAAEM, FACMT, DEAA
Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of California Irvine
UCI Medical Center
Objectives
Global Warming
Disasters
Recent developments
Effects on Human Mankind
http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~jnorris/sio117/ipcc_figs/IPCC_FAQ1.3small.bmp
Facts
Intergovenmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC)
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
Difference between
Weather and Climate
Controversy
Temperature
Precipitation
Humidity
Wind Pattern
Disaster - Definition
Loss of biodiversity
Famine
Deforestation, Flooding
Example Bangladesh
Malaria
Dengue fever (South America)
Tick-born encephalitis increase in
Sweden after warmer winters
West Nile in the US