This metacognitive reading report summarizes the student's reading of an article about how climate change affects health. The report identifies three difficult concepts from the article: effects on mental health, transition risks and opportunities, and direct and indirect effects. It then details what the student initially thought about three climate change issues before reading the article, and what they learned from the article. The report concludes with three discussion questions about solutions to climate change, how the Royal Society assessed health effects, and what can be done about climate change.
This metacognitive reading report summarizes the student's reading of an article about how climate change affects health. The report identifies three difficult concepts from the article: effects on mental health, transition risks and opportunities, and direct and indirect effects. It then details what the student initially thought about three climate change issues before reading the article, and what they learned from the article. The report concludes with three discussion questions about solutions to climate change, how the Royal Society assessed health effects, and what can be done about climate change.
This metacognitive reading report summarizes the student's reading of an article about how climate change affects health. The report identifies three difficult concepts from the article: effects on mental health, transition risks and opportunities, and direct and indirect effects. It then details what the student initially thought about three climate change issues before reading the article, and what they learned from the article. The report concludes with three discussion questions about solutions to climate change, how the Royal Society assessed health effects, and what can be done about climate change.
This metacognitive reading report summarizes the student's reading of an article about how climate change affects health. The report identifies three difficult concepts from the article: effects on mental health, transition risks and opportunities, and direct and indirect effects. It then details what the student initially thought about three climate change issues before reading the article, and what they learned from the article. The report concludes with three discussion questions about solutions to climate change, how the Royal Society assessed health effects, and what can be done about climate change.
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Name: MICOLOB, HARIES VI T.
Course/Subj.: BSBA-HRM SciTech 101
1. Watch the video "Typhoon Haiyan: eye of the storm on You Tube (https://www.youtubethatcom/watch?v=BnahLg_LG_DDDmQ). and answer the following questions:
a. What are the impacts of climate change on meteorological patterns? Repeating
weather is referred to as a weather pattern by meteorologists. It is usual for the weather to settle into a recurring pattern. The weather will be the same every day. Then, suddenly, the weather changes, and what had been dry weather for two weeks becomes wet weather for a week. With the devastating Hurricane occurring recently, any study of the effects of global warming on typhoon Haiyan is too early to be undertaken. However, there are several grounds to believe that it will (see below). Furthermore, techniques are available to estimate how much climate change may have exacerbated the storm. They've already been employed on previous extreme weather events, providing a clear scientific explanation that climate change has significantly increased the probability of heatwaves and floods, for example. Therefore, scientific studies indicate that extreme weather events such as heatwaves and large storms are likely to become more frequent or intense with human-induced climate change. This chapter focuses on observed changes in temperature, precipitation, storms, floods, and droughts.
b. What pieces of evidence are presented that prove on reinforce the connection between climate change and the changing meteorological patterns? Scientists studied regional weather patterns (e.g., precipitation, seasonal temperatures, melting of snow/glaciers, etc.), and they quantified their changes throughout time. The data and models are then used to establish if such changes may be ascribed to human or natural changes. You cannot simply assess this worldwide; therefore, I use wildfires (and the conditions that lead to them) as an example in the Western United States. This is something you must deal with case by case. The planet becomes warmer on average. That does not mean, however, that all locations react equally to this warming. Some places may see more rainfall, and others may dry up. Some have more heatwaves, and some have record low temperatures (primarily because of things such as the Polar vortex). Other observations of recent climate change include a global average sea level rise of 8 inches over the last century; declining sea ice, ice sheet, and glacier size; decreased snow cover and longer frost-free seasons; an approximately 30% more acidic surface ocean; and more frequent high-temperature records being set in recent decades.
c. How did the documentary affect your personal beliefs and actions towards protecting the environment? We all know that a documentary is a film or video examining an event or person based on facts that lead duly be inspired and care enough about the cause to take action on what we have seen. This show that documentary is part of our daily driver, which is very useful tools that give us actions towards protecting the environment (not only in the environment, but it can also use it at any aspect), especially any part of the country and also globally that experienced a disaster like a climate change that made us take actions like to help, to inform us that we should be careful, give us motivation, knowledge and guide what should action we should do, and more.
Assignment 13: Metacognitive Reading Report
Name: MICOLOB, HARIES VI T. Course/Subj.: BSBA-HRM SciTech 101
Instruction: Read Alastair Woodward’s How climate change affects the building blocks for health (conversation.com/how-climate-change-affects-the-building-blocks-for-health-86202). Then accomplish the metacognitive reading report below.
Difficult Concepts a. Effects on mental health b. Transition Risks and Opportunities c. Direct and Indirect Effects Learning Insights a. Before reading the article, I thought that warming ocean waters cause glaciers and ice sheets to melt faster. Every succeeding winter, smaller ice sheets produce a terrible effect on the environment of animals in cold weather and on Earth's freshwater supplies. However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that longer growing seasons could mean increased agricultural production in some areas.
b. Before reading the article, I thought that coral reefs are disappearing as a result of the acidity of warmer waters. Coral reefs protect coastlines from high waves, storms, and flooding, and while covering just around 0.1 percent of the ocean floor, reefs provide a home for 25% of the ocean's species. Destroyed reefs cause greater erosion and coastal property damage, as well as the loss of species. However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that Northwest Passage through the formerly icy Canadian Arctic Archipelago could arguably open up to transportation.
c. Before reading the article, I thought that changes in the sea circulation and the associated warmer temperatures alter regular world weather patterns, leading to harsh and catastrophic storms, such as hurricanes, typhoons, and other severe weather. More violent storms cause hundred-year flooding, ecosystems, and property to become more common, not to mention the loss of life—human and otherwise. However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that\ the Arctic, Antarctic, Siberia, and other frozen regions of the earth might experience more plant growth and milder climates.
Discussion Questions a. What are solutions to climate change? b. How did the Royal Society get to the conclusion that more research is needed to adequately assess the health effects of climate change? c. Is there really anything we do about climate change?
