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Key takeaways for this Chapter
- Every citizen needs to be climate literate.
- The planet is warming due to the greenhouse effect, also known as global warming.
- The Earths climate is changing causing numerous problems with our weather, oceans, snow/ice, and ecosystems.
- Human health is being negatively impacted by climate change.
- Humans can take actions to increase the health of the planet
Media Attributions
- Earth’s_greenhouse_effect_(US_EPA,_2012) © US EPA is licensed under a Public Domain license
- Muir glacier melt, Alaska 1941 and 2004 © NASA Global Climate Change is licensed under a Public Domain license
- ghg-concentrations_download1_2021 © EPA is licensed under a Public Domain license
- 10 Indicators of a Warming World © US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: National Climatic Data Center is licensed under a Public Domain license
- 1.1 Major U.S. Climate Trends © original figure provided by Allison Crimmins, EPA; Ken Kunkel, CICS-NC, Dave Easterling, NCDC adapted by KFalcone is licensed under a Public Domain license
- Human_population_since_1800 © Bdm25 is licensed under a CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike) license
- Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch-Map-2017 © L. Lebreton, B. Slat, F. Ferrari, B. Sainte-Rose, J. Aitken, R. Marthouse, S. Hajbane, S. Cunsolo, A. Schwarz, A. Levivier, K. Noble, P. Debeljak, H. Maral, R. Schoeneich-Argent, R. Brambini, and J. Reisser is licensed under a CC BY (Attribution) license
References
- Climate Change Indicators in the United States. (2022, March 31). US EPA. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators 14: Environmental Wellness - A Healthy Planet#return-footnote-53-1
- About Ice Cores. (n.d.-b). NSF Ice Core Facility. https://icecores.org/about-ice-cores 14: Environmental Wellness - A Healthy Planet#return-footnote-53-2
- The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment. (2016, April 4). GlobalChange.Gov. https://health2016.globalchange.gov/ 14: Environmental Wellness - A Healthy Planet#return-footnote-53-3
- https://education.nationalgeographic...-garbage-patch 14: Environmental Wellness - A Healthy Planet#return-footnote-53-4
- Trashed: Across the Pacific Ocean, plastics, plastics, everywhere. (2003, November). Natural History Magazine. https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/ht...3_feature.html 14: Environmental Wellness - A Healthy Planet#return-footnote-53-5