Climate Change in the 21st Century Discussion

Question to Answer:

-Discuss the difference between anthropogenic and natural causes attributed to climate change. Discuss whether or not you classify climate change as the major environmental health challenge of the 21st century. Explain your reasoning and provide evidence to support your claim.

PLEASE:

– minimum of 250 words or more

– strong academic writing / APA style (please use in-text citing and Reference list at end )

– must be scholarly articles only no older than 5 years, can use website that org, gov no blogs .

– please be original writing and must answer all parts of question for full credit.

Please see study material ( can use any or our own searched articles)

Read “Climate Change: The Public Health Response,” by Frumkin et al., from American Journal of Public Health (2008).

URL:https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edswss&AN=000253742500013&site=eds-live&scope=site

Read “Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice,” by Levy and Patz, from Annals of Global Health (2015).

URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214999615012242?via%3Dihub

Read “Climate and Health,” located on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) website.

URL:https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/

Read “Earth Observatory – The Impact of Climate Change on Natural Disasters,” located on the NASA website.

URL:https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/RisingCost/rising_cost5.php

Read “Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Human Displacement: A UNHCR Perspective,” by Guterres (2009), located on the UN Refugee Agency website.

URL:http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/protection/environment/4901e81a4/unhcr-policy-paper-climate-change-natural-disasters-human-displacement.html

Read “Observed Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation in a Complex and Changing World,” located on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change website.

URL:http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/docs/WGIIAR5_SPM_Top_Level_Findings.pdf

Read “Our Planet, Our Health, Our Future,” by Patz, et al., located on the World Health Organization (WHO) website.

URL:http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/reports/health_rioconventions.pdf