6 - One Health and Climate Change

Question 1

Every increment of global warming leads to what?

Answer 1

Increased regional warming
Precipitation, soil moister changes
Increased frequency and intensity of extreme events (temps, natural disasters)

Question 2

Extreme temperature events that used to occur once very 10 years now occur how often? What about events that occurred every 50 years? What about if global warming levels reach 2 degrees?

Answer 2

10 yr: now likely to occur 2.8 times
2C = 5.6 times

50 yr: now likely to occur 4.8x
2C = 13.9x

Question 3

What is a messy diagram

Answer 3

Simplified causal diagram to help us communicate complex relationships to others
Arrows pointing/interconnecting different words

Question 4

What is the IPCC

Answer 4

Intergovernmental panel on climate change

Question 5

Two ways climate change impacts health in the Arctic

Answer 5

• food security
• nutrition

Question 6

IPCC conclusion on impact of climate change on food security

Answer 6

• food/water security have been negatively impacted by changes in snow cover, lake and river ice, and permafrost in arctic regions
• changes disrupt access to herding, hunting, fishing and gathering areas
• harms livelihoods and cultural identity of arctic residents

Question 7

How is climate change affecting nutrition in the arctic

Answer 7

Decrease in seafood availability projected to elevate risk to nutritional health in some communities highly dependent on it

Question 8

How is climate change affected BC First Nations?

Answer 8

Seafood has protein, EPA, DHA, vitamins, minerals
Climate change projections are a 21-32% decrease in intake by 2050
Seafood substituted with non-traditional foods (chicken, canned tuna) do not replace nutrients lost

Question 9

What is COP? where was the most recent one?

Answer 9

Conference of the Parties
Led to the Paris Agreement
Most recently in the United Arab Emirates

Question 10

The IPCC has a special report on the…

Answer 10

Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate