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Corum | How Does Climate Change Affect You?

From Global Climate Change To Diseases

High-Level Project Summary

Global Climate change has an impact on almost every aspect of our lives. The most well-known of these are the warming of the world, the melting of glaciers, the extinction of species, etc.We started from how climate change affects the weather and investigated its effects on our illness. And as a result of our research, we realized that climate change has a direct effect on our getting sick.

Link to Final Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kZVJmZAo2E

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT6X5Mh9on4

Detailed Project Description

As we all know, climate change has been a significant upcoming threat that will inevitably disrupt many different things. The effects it is stated to have on the weather have already been talked about many times. I guarantee you've heard at the very least one speech about the terrible conditions it is going to present to our current planet. Drought, floods, hurricanes, deforestation, wildfires, etc. have all been listed as what will happen. These all will bring not only physical destruction, it might very well bring medical problems along with them.
Climate change and rising temperatures threaten to disrupt the physical, biological, and ecological life support systems on which human health stands. To start with; rising temperatures are estimated to cause changes in heat-related mortality in the US, Canada, and especially in China and Egypt. Furthermore, the impact of ever-increasing air pollution will be more severe. Heat is not the only burden, however, and this brings our next point.
Numerous environmental factors can influence immune activity. Climate change has been linked to increased concentrations and distribution of air pollutants such as ozone, nitric oxide, and other volatile organic chemicals. An increasing number of research points toward these airborne environmental pollutants may be partially responsible for the substantial increase in allergic respiratory disease seen in industrialized countries over the past several decades.
In addition, an increase in carbon dioxide emission has followingly increased the number of plant reproduction, which increases the intensity of the pollen season. Not only plants, but the weather conditions aforementioned above, also take part. Thunderstorms have been found to increase concentrations of pollen grains at ground level, which after absorbing water, can rupture and release allergenic particles which can induce severe asthmatic symptoms in people with chronic respiratory allergic diseases, like asthma and hay fever.
The effects of climate change on health aren't limited to worsening already caught diseases. It has also been stated to cause the spread of vector diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever, and speculations of an increase in water and food-borne have also been said. Asthma and allergy will also be spread, due to related reasons above. The JE virus in pigs may spread to humans through mosquitoes as vectors. Alongside, viruses both old and new may occur.
All of these are all, as of our awareness, within possibility. However, it is up to our researchers, scientists, and in general; our innovators to seek out prevention or solution, and in the worst case scenario, a delaying method, as soon as possible. This concludes our summary of climate change and how it may affect humans in not only destruction but medical problems.

Space Agency Data

We used Global Tempereture data at https://climate.nasa.gov/ and video at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4964 in our video. Also we used images at https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/ to understand the effects of climate change in geographical regions.

Hackathon Journey

Our journey was very enjoyable. We had very enjoyable hours, especially with the people we met on the local discord server. While choosing our challenge, we focused on which challenge we could have a good time with the most. We thank our physics teacher for introducing us to this competition, and you for organizing such a competition.