Семинар НУЛ МУСС: "Impacts of Global Climate Change - 2022: Eagle's Eye View"

Приглашаем Вас на очередной онлайн семинар лаборатории НУЛ МУСС 27 октября, в четверг, в 16:20.
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Title: Impacts of Global Climate Change - 2022: Eagle's Eye View

 Speaker:  R. Mahendran, Anjalai Ammal Mahalingam Engineering College

Climate change has resulted from an increase in global temperatures due to enhanced emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs).  Statistically, climate change (CC) represents the average weather over a period of 30 years. The main anthropogenic sources of GAGs emissions are fossil fuel burning, from chemical industries, and deforestation. Since 1900, the GHG emissions have increased the global temperature by 1°C. By 2050, it is estimated that the Earth's temperature will increase drastically, if the emission of GHGs continue at the current rate. The CC cause many extreme weather events, such as sea level rise, floods, droughts, desertification, melting of glaciers, forest fires, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, and shrinking Arctic ice [1]. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report (Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability) warned that the human-induced CC is the root cause for extensive interruption in nature and affect the livelihood of billions of people around the world [2]. Specifically, the CC affects our physical and mental health, interruption to family functioning, induce food shortages, and increase intergroup conflict. Hence, in this talk, I am going to emphasize the current and future impacts of CC worldwide.

References
1.     Lyon et al. Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100. Global change biology. 28 (2022) 349-361.
2.     J. Tollefson, IPCC climate report: Earth is warmer than it’s been in 125,000 years, Nature. 596 (2021) 171.