Final Review Flashcards

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Define Weather:

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Short term natural events in a place

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Define Climate:

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Long term weather trends often defined by temperature and precipitation

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Define Climate Variability:

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Deviations of climate variables
from a given mean state at all spatial and temporal scales
beyond that of individual weather events

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Define Climate Change:

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A change in the state of the climate
that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by
changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties
and that persists for an extended period

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What are some key insights from the paleoclimate record?

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Climate has been in constant flux throughout the history of Earth, but it is not warming at an unprecedented rate

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What are the 5 natural drivers of climate change?

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Global energy balance, sun spot cycles, earth’s orbit, volcanoes, and ocean cycles

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What are the physical effects of increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere?

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Increased greenhouse effect – rising global temperatures, sea level rise, extreme weather events, desertification, etc.

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Define a climate impact:

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The consequences of realized risks on natural and human systems due to climate change.

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Define a Hazard:

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The potential occurrence of a natural or human caused physical event that could cause loss of life or injury, and/or cause damage to infrastructure

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Define exposure:

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The presence of people, services, social or cultural places that could be effected by a hazard

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Define vulnerability:

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predisposition to be adversely
affected… [as a] product of intersecting social processes
that result in inequalities in socioeconomic status and
income, and are exacerbated by exposure

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List 5 categories of climate impact that the IPCC tracks:

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Water scarcity, agriculture/crop production, infectious diseases, heat/malnutrition/other, and damages to infrastructure

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Climate risk =

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hazard + exposure + vulnerability

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What are 5 key takeaways about global climate impacts?

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  1. climate impacts everything
  2. hazards have generally gotten warmer and more extreme
  3. a little bit of warming can make a big difference
  4. not all impacts are negative
  5. some impacts are reversible, others are not
  6. impacts are compounding and cascading
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According to Eve Darian-Smith, what are the 3 ways to interpret wildfires?

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  1. About fire (empirical dimensions)
  2. With fire (relational dimensions)
  3. Through fire (spatial/temporal dimensions)
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According to Eve Darian-Smith, what are two intersecting trends that shape global responses to climate change?

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Surges in anti-democratic policies and anti-environmentalist policies

17
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Define adaptation to Climate Change:

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the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effets

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What are the 7 principles that assure effective climate adaptation?

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  1. avoid maladaptation
  2. resilient adaptation
  3. transformative adaptation
  4. just adaptation
  5. mainstream adaptation
  6. needs to be financed
  7. have synergies with mitigation
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What is the key takeaway about adaptation finance?

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Financing adaptation is only going to get more expensive, we should be doing it NOW

20
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What are the 3 key international climate treaties?

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  1. 1992 UNFCCC
  2. 1997 Kyoto Protocol
  3. 2015 Paris Agreement
21
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What is a social movement?

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a collective effort with some degree of organization, it must challenge an existing institutional or cultural authority, it must use means outside institutional channels

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Define dutiful, disruptive, and dangerous dissent:

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Dutiful: working within the system, lobbying
Disruptive: working outside of the system, protests
Dangerous: working to create a new system

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What are the 4 principles of a successful climate movement?

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  1. Work with a broad coalition
  2. Frame the issue
  3. Act based on a theory of change
  4. Dangerous/disruptive/dutiful
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What is a frame?

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A package of meaning that connects to idea you already have in order to make it easier to understand

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What is resilient adaptation?
Adaptation that enables settlements to better plan, adapt, and thrive in the face of a changing climate
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What is transformative adaptation?
a process that may involve institutional reforms, cultural changes and the challenging of assumptions, and involves large-scale changes that are new to a location or system, generate long-term impacts and/or produce a new social-ecological system
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What is just adaptation?
Adaptation that ensures that workers and vulnerable communities are at the center of planning and design efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change
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What is mainstream adaptation?
Incorporating climate change adaptation strategies into general planning programs and strategies