Global enviromental threats caused by Economic development

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What are hydrometherological disasters?(5)

Water and weather-related disasters
-  Heavy precipitations (neerslag)
- Extreme storms
- High intensity hurricanes and typhoons
- Storm related flood surges (pieken)
- Massive draught/ forest fires

What is a major drive of environmental change?

Human's massive use of coal, oil, and gas (Co2)

Co2 fluctuations are natural and caused by earth's orbital patterns around the sun, which changes are involved? (3)


-> Shape of the orbit

-> Slight variations in the earth's distance to the sun
-> Fluctuations in the tilt of the earth relative to the place of the earth's orbit, causing slight changes to the seasons.
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What happens when the orbit slightly changes in ways that tend to heat the earth?

A feedback process causes Co2 release dissolved in the oceans, which then escape into the atmosphere, in turn, as the co2 rises in the atmosphere, the result is that the planet warms even more.

What is the result in co2 emission caused by humans? (burning fossil fuels)

- Sea level rising
- Harvest failures due to high temp.
- Losses in biodiversity

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