{"id":434,"date":"2019-08-21T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmcched110.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=434"},"modified":"2020-01-24T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:48:12","slug":"climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/2019\/08\/21\/climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may have heard the term global warming, or the more current term climate change. But how can this affect our help? And what is it, exactly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Earth&#8217;s climate fluctuates, as can be seen in the history of our ice ages. However, right now we are experiencing a period of global temperature rise, which has led to many other changes in our climate. Most scientists believe that at least some part of the global warming effect has been due to human-made changes like the burning of fossil fuel, land use, and industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmcched110.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/8259\/files\/2019\/08\/Earths_greenhouse_effect_US_EPA_2012.png\" alt=\"Image illustrating the Greenhouse effect. Some solar radiation is reflected by the earth and its atmosphere, but some passes through and is absorbed and re-emitted by greenhouse gas molecules. The effect is to warm the Earth's surface and lower atmosphere.\" class=\"wp-image-435\" \/><figcaption>From EPA.gov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Greenhouse house gases are those that trap heat in the atmosphere and include carbon dioxide and methane &#8211; read more here  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ghgemissions\/overview-greenhouse-gases\">https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ghgemissions\/overview-greenhouse-gases<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EtW2rrLHs08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the changes we can expect in different regions of the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/article\/we-broke-down-what-climate-change-will-do-region-by-region\/\">https:\/\/grist.org\/article\/we-broke-down-what-climate-change-will-do-region-by-region\/<\/a>. Some changes include less rainfall leading to droughts and less <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/climateandhealth\/effects\/food_security.htm\">food production<\/a>, more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/climateandhealth\/effects\/wildfires.htm\">wildfires<\/a>, more common and severe storms and weather events, changes in animal habitats, and others. There may also be an increase in certain types of diseases, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/climateandhealth\/effects\/food_waterborne.htm\">food and water-borne<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/climateandhealth\/effects\/vectors.htm\">vector<\/a>-borne (insects). Finally, there will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/climateandhealth\/effects\/temperature_extremes.htm\">higher temperatures<\/a> and changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/climateandhealth\/effects\/precipitation_extremes.htm\">precipitation <\/a>and sea level rise &#8211; drowning some regions and drying out others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6tesHVSZJOg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Sea level rise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change is a great threat to human health all over the world &#8211;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/facts-in-pictures\/detail\/health-and-climate-change\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/facts-in-pictures\/detail\/health-and-climate-change<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard the term global warming, or the more current term climate change. But how can this affect our help? And what is it, exactly? The Earth&#8217;s climate fluctuates, as can be seen in the history of our ice ages. However, right now we are experiencing a period of global temperature rise, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/2019\/08\/21\/climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climate change&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,24],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slo9","tag-readings","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/hed-110-comp-health-education-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}