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4.7 Reading: Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited

  What flaws do the authors highlight in relation to sub-theses underpinning claims linking climate change with the Syrian civil war ? The authors bluntly disagreed with the claims submitted by the sub-theses that human activities in releasing greenhouses actually connects with the drought in Syria, they argued that this drought never caused the massive migration of people, neither the migration itself was the cause of the Syria civil war. The authors therefore described all these claims as errors and need to be investigated further, or except if there have been emerging proofs, otherwise the Syria civil war was not connected to the claimed climate change impact of the drought. The writers suggested that the claims by the UN secretary Ban Ki moon is rather the opposite, as they deemed that the claimers could have mentioned political and economic situations as influencers to the Darfur War. To conclude if have the feeling that the writers may not have any believe that climate chan...

4.6 Reading: Climate change in the Fertile Crescent

  How do the authors link climate change with the Syrian conflict? The authors first and foremost considered Syria vulnerability to climate change as the effect poor governance, unstable agriculture, poor environmental policy, high crime rate and high rate of unemployment. They linked the Syria’ government’s weak and poor enforcement of environmental policy as a catalytic factor that increased human action that induced climate change and described the 3 years’ drought as the speedy effect to political instability. What problems might occur in making these connections? It is obvious that making these connections would create political insights that may lead to conflict. The government initiatives to increase farming activities, allocate more land and subsidized fuel all threatened the availability of water, the ground water will be more exploited and risk to more drought and water conflict. Who was most affected by the Syrian drought, and in what ways? The greater fertile ...

3.14 Reading: Assessment preparation

    SPECIAL REPORT ON THE OCEAN AND CRYOSPHERE IN A CHANGING CLIMATECH IPCC Summary for Policymakers   The ocean and the cryosphere are very important habitant to the lives of the billions of people in the world. The change in the ocean temperature will affect communities closed to Islands, mountains, coastal areas greatly. Observed changes and impacts     A.1.   The cryosphere has melt, ice sheets, and glaciers levels have reduced with assurance of the increased in earth’s temperature.   Impacting on the layers of the snow cover, and temperature of the sea. Increased in the surface temperature has resulted to more coastal land degradation, impact on the high mountain communities, density stratification in the upper 2000m of the ocean and deterioration of the snow cover. The permafrost temperature has increased across the polar and mountain regions. Arctic and boreal permafrost contained more organic CO2 than the CO2 in the atmosphere. In t...

3.2 Wiki glossary: How do ocean currents work?

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    What are gyres?  A gyre is a large system of rotating ocean currents. There are five major gyres, which are large systems of rotating ocean currents. The ocean churns up various types of currents. Together, these larger and more permanent currents make What is the Coriolis effect?  Coriolis effect occurs due to the movement of the wind alone the ocean surface, the wind pulls the surface water alone and the action create current that flow west wards. The force then occurs as the result of the earth rotation. What is thermohaline circulation?  Thermohaline circulation is the process when the ocean water become colder  towards the pole, forming ice on the surface, but the salt sinks making the deeper water more saline and denser  and create a deeper current, the space that is created on the surface is then refilled from the   What is the global conveyor belt?  The global ocean conveyor belt oc...