In this activity, you will analyze the health benefits and the limitations of working with climate change prediction models.     

Step 1: Review the following figure from the IPCC's Mitigation for Climate Change: Summary for Policymakers. The proposal is to drastically reduce the CO2 atmospheric concentrations to below 430ppm by 2100. This could/would revert the temperature to below 1.5°C (high confidence). In order to achieve this goal, it would be necessary to immediately start mitigation action and upscale the portfolio of mitigation technologies and development along a low-energy demand trajectory.

Step 2: Reflect on the following questions: 

• What limitations could affect the accuracy of these predictions?

• Which benefits would be attained by following the IPCC’s proposition of reducing CO2 atmospheric concentrations to below 430ppm by 2100? 

• What are the potential limitations to implementing policies to achieve that objective? 

Step 3: Prepare a 250 - 500 word piece of writing to summarize your reflections on the IPCC’s proposition.

Step 4: To share your work, click on the “Reply” button under this post and paste your work in the “message” box. Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).

Step 5: To complete the activity, you will need to reply to at least two posts made by your peers in a respectful and professional manner. Be sure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “post to forum.”

OPTIONAL Step 6: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”