Climatic Change: Causes, Impacts on

Wild Fires and Human Health

Yara EzAl Deen Sultan

Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences & Humanities
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India

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 Introduction
Climate
 It is the long-term weather pattern in a
region, typically averaged over 30years.
 Weather is a short-term variation in
climate, in a given region

Climate Change
 It is the periodic modification of Earth’s
climate brought about as a result of
changes in the Atmosphere as well as
interactions between the atmosphere and
various other geo/chemo/bio factors
within the Earth system.
 Earth is now about 1.1°C warmer than
it was in the late 1800s. The last decade
(2011-2020) was the warmest on record.

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 Causes
Climate of the globe
ie, Temp.of the town or climate
of a given country or continent
depends on several factors,
given below.

 Geographical location
 Distance from the sea
 Ocean currents
 Direction of prevailing winds
 Topography of the land
or land formation
 Altitude
 Green house gases

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 Two Different Types of Causes of Climate Change
 Man-made Causes
 Greenhouse Gas Emission
 Fossil Fuel Usage
 Black Carbon
 Natural Causes  Industrial Production & Farming
 External Climate causes  Agriculture
 Solar Output  Deforestation
 Orbital Shifts  Urbanization
 Volcanic Activity  Sulfates, Organic Carbons & Aerosols
 Continental Drift (small particles)
 Internal Climate causes
 Seasonal Changes
 El Nino-La Nina
 Arctic Oscillation
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Feedback between fire and deforestation, with the added components of
climate change and savannization that are to come
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 Impacts on Wild Fires
 Point 1 on Wild Fire  Point 2 on Wild Fire

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 Impacts on Human Health

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 Other Effects of Climate Change
 Effects of Climate Change on Weather  Effects of Climate Change on Animals
 Higher average temperatures  Already 50% species extinct
 Longer-lasting droughts  More than 5,00,000 with insufficient habitat
 More intense wildfires  Coral bleaching
 Stronger storms  80% wetlands lost
 Effects of Climate Change on the Environment  Effects of Climate Change on Humans
 Melting sea ice  Human health
 Sea level rise  Worsening inequity
 Flooding  Displacement
 Warmer ocean waters and marine heat waves  Economic impacts
 Ecosystem stressors
 Future Effects of Climate Change
 Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture  Extra 2,50,000 deaths/year
 Less predictable growing seasons
 Reduced soil health
 Food shortages

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 Conclusions
 Influence of volcanoes and changes in solar activity would have resulted in cooling rather
than warming over the past 50 years.

 Global warming witnessed over the past 150 years matches nearly perfectly what is
expected from greenhouse gas emissions and other human activity, ie, the best estimate of
the human contribution to modern warming is around 100%.

 Wild fires estimates show 85% are human made. Over past 100years, wild fires rose by
57% more due to climate change.

 Climate change, together with other natural and human-made health stressors,

influences human health and disease in numerous ways.

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 References
 Kaitlin A.Tasker & Eugenio Y.Arima
Fire Regimes in Amazonia: the Relative Roles of Policy and Precipitation
Anthropocene, 14 (2016) 46-57

 Cosimo Magazzino, Mihai Mutascu, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Festus Fatai Adedoyin & Phebe Asantewaa Owusu

Heterogeneous Effects of Temperature and Emissions on Economic Productivity across Climate Regimes
Science of The Total Environment, 775 (2021) 145893

 Zeke Hausfather
Analysis: Why Scientists Think 100% of Global Warming is Due to Humans
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-scientists-think-100-of-global-warming-is-due-to-humans/, 2017

 Raymond Zhong
Climate Scientists Warn of a ‘Global Wild Fire Crisis’
The New York Times, 23rd February 2022

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