Climate Change, Veterinary Medicine, & OH (3)

Question 1

What are the faces of climate change?

Answer 1

1. shrinking ice sheets in Greenland & Antarctica by satellite analysis
2. declining arctic sea ice
3. rising ocean levels
4. glacial retreat
5. coral bleaching

Question 2

2024 may be the hottest in the last ______ years

Answer 2

125,000

Question 3

Which initiative clears the way for looking at climate change adaptation and resilience?

Answer 3

DoD Directive - Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience

Question 4

What is the most mobile form of carbon?

Answer 4

carbon dioxide

Question 5

What is carbon sequestration?

Answer 5

taking carbon out of the air and putting it into a system or process where it’s not recycled, gets out of normal carbon cycle

Question 6

What is the greenhouse effect?

Answer 6

the heat of the sun comes in through the atmosphere but then is absorbed and re-emitted in all direction by greenhouse gas molecules

Question 7

Why are greenhouse gasses bad?

Answer 7

not all of the incoming heat is outgoing - some heat is trapped within the lower atmosphere, warming the earth’s surface

the higher the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the more heat is trapped

Question 8

What is climate?

Answer 8

the long-term, prevailing pattern of temperature, precipitation, and other weather variables at a given location, described by statistics, such as means and extremes

Question 9

What is weather?

Answer 9

the environmental conditions that we experience outside every day over a smaller, regional area

Question 10

What is climate change adaptation?

Answer 10

adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities

Question 11

What is Bovine Generation Time?

Answer 11

calf to replacement calf time = 357 days breeding

500 generations = 1000 years

biological adaptation through genetic modification will take much longer than in e. coli - every 75 days =10.714 weeks 500 generations

Question 12

What about human generation time?

Answer 12

500 generations = 10,000 years

Question 13

What is the bottom line with adaptation?

Answer 13

lower level life forms will be able to adapt through natural selection faster than higher level life forms and especially human

Question 14

What is the impact of climate change on human health?

Answer 14

Question 15

How might genomics be altering beef herds?

Answer 15

select genes for heat tolerance

Question 16

What is climate engineering?

Answer 16

spreading various compounds in the air to help combat what we see with the climate

doesn’t work well

Question 17

How can we counteract the warming effect of our CO2 pollution?

Answer 17

blocking 8% of the sun’s Earth-bound radiation

sulphate particles reflect part of the sun’s radiation back into space

Question 18

What can help decrease the burden of CO2?

Answer 18

other forms of power

Question 19

What are the economic impacts of climate change?

Answer 19

• insurance
• incentives
• stock market fluctuation
• property values
• job loss/job creation

Question 20

T/F: Although there is a large amount of uncertainty about exactly how climate change might impact world food production over the coming decades, there is general consensus that the overall
effect will be negative

Answer 20

TRUE - also water scarcity 2/3 population

Question 21

What are the societal impacts of climate change?

Answer 21

• job loss/job creation
• climate poverty pockets
• climate boom pockets
• population shifts
• political shifts - democratic, non-democratic-terror
• mass migration

Question 22

What is 62% of our electricity source?

Answer 22

hydrocarbon (fossil fuels)