Climate Change

Question 1

What are the short term effects of climate change?

Answer 1

• Change in business opportunities e.g agriculture
• Stronger more frequent storms
• Droughts and floods

Question 2

What are the long term effects of climate change?

Answer 2

• ice caps are melting causing sea levels to rise
• migration of environment refugees
• Changing pattern of insects born diseases e.g malaria and other diseases

Question 3

What does the ice core data show?

Answer 3

The co2 levels rise and fall naturally over time and this causes change in temperature

Question 4

What is the greenhouse effect?

Answer 4

Is when the earths atmosphere acts like an insulated blanked. It occurs because a huge amount of greenhouse gases released is more than there would usually be to heat up the earth

Question 5

What does the keeling curve show?

Answer 5

It shows the co2 levels in the past 400 thousand years have been as high

Question 6

What does the ice-core data show?

Answer 6

It shows that co2 levels rise and fall naturally overtime and this causes change in temperature

Question 7

CASE STUDY - ICELAND

Negative effects of climate change in Iceland

Answer 7

• tourist industry will suffer
• an increase in storms which then sea levels will rise which causes flooding
• in the long term the decrease in glaciers will reduce the HEP production

Question 8

CASE STUDY - ICELAND

Positive effects of climate change in Iceland?

Answer 8

• melting glaciers feed rivers and increase the amount of hydro-electric power
• At 1’c increase would allow farmers to grow crops, wheat and therefore allowing them to rear more sheep and cattle