This document contains a series of questions and short passages about various topics related to climate change and its impacts on public health and the environment. Specifically, it addresses concepts like the albedo effect, greenhouse gases, heat waves, wildfires, policy responses like the Kyoto Protocol, and the roles of environmental professionals.
16. Those most at risk of being harmed by
thermal extremes include
socially isolated city dwellers,
the elderly and this other group of people.
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20. According to the WHO, overall, climate change is projected to
increase threats to human health,
particularly in lower income populations,
predominantly within this zone of countries.
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30. Combustion engines, coal power plants,
wild fires, oil extraction,
and agriculture are sources of these which
trap heat an increase the earth’s temperature.
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32. These are emitted directly from the process of concern
and include carbon monoxide from combustion engines,
volcanic ash and particulate matter.
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46. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement
under which industrialized countries
will reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases
by this amount compared to 1990 emissions.
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49. It is well known that the U.S. has not
ratified the Kyoto Protocol,
this country in the southern hemisphere
did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
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51. They make sure that food and drinking water are safe,
investigate environmental causes of disease,
treat and dispose of solid and toxic waste, and
work on reducing air, food, and environmental pollution.
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