Carbon footprinting

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

9 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/09/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Ecology & environment

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Summary :

Abstract.
Introduction.
1. The idea that climate change will alter the way that agents of infection distribute disease.
2. Warmer temperatures and altered rainfall patterns.
Heat and rain.
1. The best defense against increases in infection.
2. Flooding and the breeding habits of vectors and hosts.
Carbon footprint, fossil fuels and climate change.
1. Burning fossil fuels.
2. The close relation between climate, environment and infectious disease.
3. Decreasing one's carbon footprint.
4. The conventional wisdom for reducing a carbon footprint.
5. Energy efficiency and offsetting.
The argument in favor of examining the carbon footprint.
1. The existence of the greenhouse effect.
2. The Second Assessment Report of the IPCC.
Conclusion.

Abstract

The nature of the carbon footprint is to examine human use of carbon and to try to apply it to how much greenhouse gas (converted to a scale based on CO2) is used. By discussing this, and viewing how "Climate change and infectious diseases in North America: the road ahead" discusses climate, it becomes obvious that the science and the opinions that guide discussion on environmental issues are rich and varied. Any and all predictions of what the global carbon footprint is doing to the planet involves conjecture. There are measurements and there are theories, but much of the "Climate change and infectious diseases in North America: the road ahead" study by Greer, Ng and Fisman involves hypothesizing and estimation because they do not give specific temperature estimates, though they do use some data based on temperature from other sources. This is not to say that their work is grounded on faulty science as much as to call it firmly entrenched in debatable science and estimations. Using this to talk about disease possibilities gives the article a hypothetical feel.