Aspects of climate change induced by human activities Impact on global natural disaster mortality

• Main Authors: Borres, Mark S., Serad, Joel B.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: fossil fuel, renewable energy, CO2 emission, forest area, climate change, global warming, natural disaster mortality; Arctic; Climate change; Global warming
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1616963; https://zenodo.org/record/1616963

Some scientists believe that global warming and the consequent climate change are inevitable results of slight deviations of the earth’s movement around its axis, a greater majority of scientists stipulate that a greater bulk of the reason for global warming and climate change is accounted for by human activities that destroy the natural environment. The present study looks into the chain of events that lead to natural disasters with specific focus on quantifying the human contribution to these catastrophes. The centroid regression approach identifies the categories of countries that contribute most to the world’s CO2 emissions and determines the relationship among natural resource depletion (% forest area) and CO2 emission and forest land area. The fitted curve states that the CO2 emissions increases as the square of the fossil fuel usage by the countries so that those nations, particularly those belonging to the high and very high HDI which are highly developed, contribute tremendously to the level of CO2 emissions across the globe. The impact of human exploitative activities on the accelerated CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere led to natural disasters spawned by rising global temperatures increasing natural disaster mortality. : {"references": ["Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007). Observed changes in climate and their effects. IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007.", "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2012). Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation. Special report of the IPCC Australia: Cambridge University Press.", "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2009). Towards a Science-based global harmonized carbon price. IPCC Special Report.", "Joint Statement of 18 Scientific Associations (2009). Scientific consensus on global warming. Sound Science Initiative. Union of Concerned Scientists.", "McGuire, D. (2009). Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change. Ecological Monographs, 79(4), 523-555.", "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2009). Fact sheet: The need for mitigation. UNFCCC International.", "Van Aalst, M. (2006). The impact of climate change on the risk of natural disasters. Disasters 30(1):5-18."]}