Global Warming - The Health and Disease Impacts

Adatok

A Tantárgybejelentőben megadott hivatalos adatok az alábbi tanévre: 2026-2027

Tematika

Recent observations and forecasts have highlighted that global warming may change our environment and society. The course tries to familiarize students with the possible cause-effect relations, and their contradictions and evidences, furthermore the impacts on human health. The course also tries to give a viewpoint for the students to evaluate the etiological factors of the respective disease in the context of climate change, highlighting the contradictions and evidences.

Előadások

• 1. The natural fluctuation of atmospheric CO2 concentration, natural greenhouse effect - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 2. Earth’s energy budget (bare-rock model, radiative forcings) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 3. The unnatural fluctuation of atmospheric CO2 concentration - The Keeling Curve - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 4. Imbalance in Earth’s energy budget, unnatural greenhouse effect - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 5. The disturbed ecosystem - possible, ecological and social responses, climate models, IPCC reports - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 6. The possible direct, indirect and socioeconomic health effects of global warming - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
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  The direct health effects I - Heat waves (Ω-block), urban heat islands. Contradictions and evidences.

  - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 8. Increasing heat wave frequency - Disasters (2003 France), heat exhaustion, heat stroke, possible future tendencies - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
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  The direct health effects II - Aridity, droughts and desertification. Contradictions and evidences.

  - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 10. Global situation of malnutrition (kwasiorkor, marasmus, mikronutrient deficiencies) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
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  The direct health effects III - Changing intesity of hurricanes, El Niño and floods. Contradictions and evidences.

  - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 12. Extreme weather events and infectious diseases - melioidosis, cholera, cryptosporidiosis - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
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  The indirect health effects I - Current tendencies of vector-borne diseases and zoonoses. Contradictions and evidences.

  - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 14. Tendencies in horizontal and vertical occurrences of vectors and their pathogens, based on regional and local climate models (SRES, RCP) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 15. The indirect health effects II - The changing pattern of waterborne diseases - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 16. Enterotoxic Escherichia coli (ETEC), Rotavirus, Vibrio cholerae caused diseases and their association with climate change - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 17. The indirect health effects III - Diminished air quality - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 18. Effects of heat waves on particulate matter and surface ozone. Respiratory and cardiovascular consequences. Increasing atmospheric CO2 and pollen concentration. - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
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  The indirect health effects IV - The possible effects on cryosphere, albedo and sea level. Contradictions and evidences.

  - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
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  Socioeconomic effects - The possible future situation of agriculture and food industry. Contradictions and evidences.

  - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 21. Changing climate, changing biodiversity - IUCN reports - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 22. The future size and dynamics of the environmental migration - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 23. Public health adaptation to climate change - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 24. Climate programs of public health - Health care delivery and access - Bérczi Bálint Dániel

Gyakorlatok

Szemináriumok

A tananyag elsajátításához szükséges segédanyagok

Kötelező irodalom

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Saját oktatási anyag

Lectures will be uploaded to Neptun

Jegyzet

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Ajánlott irodalom

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF HUMAN CO2 EMISSIONS

ON THE SURVIVAL OF LIFE ON EARTH

B Y PAT R I C K M O O R E | J U N E 2 0 1 6
https://frontiercentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Moore-Positive-Impact-of-Human-CO2-Emissions.pdf

Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: An Open Letter. https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2021/09/10/fact-checking-the-fact-checkers-an-open-letter/

A félév elfogadásának feltételei

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Félévközi ellenőrzések

A written exam (simple choice) has to be done on the last occasion.

Távolmaradás pótlásának lehetőségei

Absence of 2x2 hours is acceptable, if it is exceeded the semester cannot be accepted.

Vizsgakérdések

Neptun

Vizsgáztatók

Gyakorlatok, szemináriumok oktatói

• Bérczi Bálint Dániel