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A presentation prepared to focus on the localized weather change. Also an effort to help people working in field/sites (like I) by showing that the amount of physical work on site/fields and effort that was put a decade ago [as constantly reminded by some of the seniors we are working with ;) ] cannot be expected in this situation anymore. Either efficiency/work or health/safety will have to be compromised. I'd prefer amount of work to be compromised. Yeah, sure, the obvious answer is, recruit more people, create more teams.
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Global Warming
Prepared by: Sohil Shah
Future readers may view IPCC reports not as landmarks of scientific inquiry, but as suicide notes from a lost civilization. - IPCC
Content• Some Facts• Harmful Effects• Localizing Facts• Focusing on Ahmedabad
• Field People / Outdoor Workers
Some facts• Industrial carbon-dioxide
emissions have risen by 50% since 1997
• Temperature rose : 0.04°C / decade – without considering Arctic
• With Arctic: 0.12 °C / decade
CO2: A rise in concentrations from preindustrial levels of 280 parts per million (ppm) to 560ppm would thus warm the Earth by 1°C.
Effects…
GlobalWarming
Temperature
Drought Species extinction
Most corals losses
Flood
Increases of intense tropical cyclones
Much higher
sea level
Predicted a 96% decline in tiger habitat in Bangladesh: leaving with 16 tigers within Bangladesh
Health
Contaminated urban flood waters
Very low ground water in Haryana,
Rajasthan
Diarrheal dieases
Pathogens and Parasites multiply
faster
Katrina Hurricane caused approx. $100 billion damage. But reduction in crop along with increased health damages will be much more damaging
Localizing the facts• Mean annual temperature exceeds 2˚C in the mid-
21st-century BUT ranges from greater than 3˚C over South and Southeast Asia• India will be in one of the most affected countries
Year Avg Temperature Increase in India
2045 – 2065 2-3 °C*
2081 - 2100 3-5 °C
* warmest increase being 4-5 °C
Increased poverty in parts of Asia: Worsen from climate change on rice production, and a general increase in food prices and the cost of living
Localizing the facts• The 2007 prediction: Himalayan glaciers would melt
by 2035
• Recent: Melting of Himalayan glaciers would impact 1.2 billion people in the region
Increased poverty in parts of Asia: Worsen from climate change on rice production, and a general increase in food prices and the cost of living
Reduce crop production: two percent / decade
$1.45 trillion of economic
damage
51% reduction of wheat from Gangetic plain
200 million people
Localizing the facts
Increased poverty in parts of Asia: Worsen from climate change on rice production, and a general increase in food prices and the cost of living
Focusing on… AhmedabadMay, Year 1991
Max Temperature
40 °C
Mean Temperature
33 °C
May, Year 1997
Max Temperature
42 °C
Mean Temperature
34 °CPresent
Max Temperature
45 °C
Mean Temperature
37 °C
Katrina Hurricane caused approx. $100 billion damage. But reduction in crop along with increased health damages will be much more damaging
Outdoor Workers
• Increase in cardiovascular and respiratory disorders
Thank YouReferences:
• IPCC WGII AR5, 2014 Report on Climate Change
• Occupational Health and Safety Impacts of Climate Conditions By Kjellstorm
• www.wunderground.com
Polar bears love global warming, they love not having homes.