Impact of Climate Change on the Risk of Forest and Grassland Fires

Question: Discuss about the Impact of Climate Change on the Risk of Forest and Grassland Fires. Answer: Introduction The report will discuss in detail about climate which can be defined as average kind of weather in a single place. This concept includes different patterns related of humidity, wind, temperature and seasons. Climate change and different patterns can also have explained as a fundamental role that helps in shaping the natural kind of ecosystems and all kind of human economies and different cultures that actually depend on them. However, climate which is expected now has completely changed since the past has failed to show the reliability of predictors in future. The climate is constantly changing with so many major impacts and the change is also gradually progressing on a faster rate every year. Effects of climate change on risk of forest and grass land fires There are number of results that have shown a slow and increase in the local level of scale and risk of fire in many countries like Australia. This result is actually driven by situations like warming or the reductions in a more humid situation in every kind of simulations and under every kind of emission case and at all kind of periods. Researchers have also measured different functions that are directly related to different kind of fire risks at every step in many states like New South Wales. At the same time they also have to face the extreme risk for fire that rises up to 25%. Also, studies also suggests that by the year 2050, there will low and high fluctuation in emission and it will only rise every year . The possibility of a risk of fire is also increasing at a very high rate since there are constant emission cases by 2100. (Pitman et al., 2007). The results can be broadly seen and calculated in line with previous examples and analysis despite different kind of processes and this can be concluded with the possibility of some increase in risk for fire in Australia and this result from change in climate that is quite high. It is also important to understand here that there is some major investment in different type of fire related issues in the country and the result shows that the investment is more likely to increase in order to maintain the present case of loss. (Frumkin et al., 2008). Natural Causes: - the climate around the world is getting impacted by so many natural factors that can be outside to the system of climate. These changes can be volcanic activities, the orbit of the Earth, and solar results or output. All these factors are important on different timescales which is actually contemporary to the change in the climate are those changes in the volcanic functions and different changes in radiation of solar system. (Dale et al.,2001). Human causes: a lot of credit in climate change goes to so many human activities like consumption of fossil fuels by burning it or the conversion of forest land and agricultural land into commercial work. This is why, right from beginning of the Industrial revolution and different human activity affects on the climate is increasing on a very fast pace. Also there are other impacts on the environment and these functions and change in activities that surface. Public health response The public health response and its effects of change in climate have been reviewed from time to time on extensive basis. The main concerns include different kind of injuries and also fatalities that are related to weather conditions which are extreme, such as heat waves, and there are also many infectious diseases that are directly connected with the changes in water, contamination of food, symptoms of allergy, respiratory and cardiovascular issues that further aggravate the problems like air pollution, or shortage in nutritional values that are also related to changes in production of food. (Keim, 2008). There are number of different indirect concerns and issues where data is supported and there are so many uncertainties that are much greater than so many mental health issues, dislocation of population and civil conflicts. (Haines et al., 2006). In addition to this, there are changes in pattern of different pests present in ecology and there is massive increase in different parasite s and pathogens that impact the wildlife, agriculture, forests and coastal marine animals which can also alter ecosystems and functions. Bio diversity and ecosystem It is important to understand here that change in the climate and any other kind of change in the environment will cause major losses in the biodiversity of the future. Also, there are some high rates of species that are on verge of extinction and causing stir in the environment. Here biodiversity can be treated as a term that is constantly used to define biological diversity at different levels. (Sala et al., 2000). However, in the same context it is important to aim on the explanation of different kind of species that exist in diversity. In this concept, species plays a crucial role in the ecosystems and global species loss can also threaten the stability of the environment on which species and human being depend completely. For example, plant species also witness the energy of the sun that can be fixing from carbon through photosynthesis and this process of biological system provides a base for different kind of food chain for so many animal consumers. At this level, the complete growth of all kind of plants and other species can termed as a primary source of production. (Champin et al., 2000). This basic of different ecosystem functions has some importance for international food supply and for different rates of change in climate since there is production that shows the rate at carbon content can be removed from the nature and ecosystem. Currently there is a great concern that is related to the stability of both human managed ecosystem and natural atmosphere, specifically give the changes in international phase that already exists. (Hooper et al, 2005). Conclusion The regions climate or a town is in its specific kind of nature. For instance, the atmosphere or the weather of a place like Hawaii is quite warm and at the same time, sunny. On the other hand,the weather ofplaces like Antarctica at the same time is freezing cold. The climate of Earth is actually an average of all kind of worlds local climates. This is why it is claimed, change in the weather is actually a change in the typical climate conditions of thatarea or town. It actually can be a transformation which is dependent on an areas average rainfall and it can be a major transformation that depends on average temperature for a present month or season. Reference Pitman, A. J., Narisma, G. T., McAneney, J. (2007). 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