Contemporary Northern Mariana Islands

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  1. Hello.
  2. My name is Fatima Shaheed and my presentation is over the
  3. contemporary northern Mariana islands and the effects of climate change.
  4. Taking a deeper look into the island's basic information.
  5. The population consists of 51,659
  6. individuals and the official languages being tomorrow and english.
  7. And the island's pertain 60 underwater volcanoes
  8. and are home to many endangered species such as wealth that
  9. and seeds hurdles
  10. taking a quick jump into our main discussion climate change
  11. versus natural life.
  12. These are the five big effects of climate change within these islands
  13. which are the repercussions based on water resources,
  14. negative effects on native species, increased number of coastal hazards,
  15. lack of forest management
  16. and need for adaptation and management.
  17. These are just a few number of the effects of climate change within these islands
  18. that we will discuss later on
  19. looking into our first major effect which is water resources
  20. versus the climate change.
  21. We are dealing with drought frequency, fluctuating local rainfall,
  22. unstable participation levels and changes in ecosystem management.
  23. With these four coming into play according to one of my resources
  24. for areas that see decreases in local rainfall with elevated temperatures,
  25. drought frequency duration and intensity may all increase.
  26. While areas seeing more participation may struggle
  27. with increased frequency and intensity of storms.
  28. Whether rainfall is projected to increase or decrease any change will create
  29. repercussions and require informed decision making
  30. to manage this essential resource.
  31. If you please look at the right of your screen towards the graph,
  32. you will be able to see
  33. the fluctuating rates of rainfall and a little glimpse of the weather changes
  34. throughout a year
  35. within these islands and results of climate change.
  36. These frequency levels in general began to worsen as years go by.
  37. As we carry on.
  38. Another major effect we take into account climate change versus the native species
  39. within these islands.
  40. A few points being human development,
  41. invasive species, wildfires
  42. and the vulnerability of native biodiversity.
  43. I look into my research states that
  44. the impact from invasive species and human development
  45. due to climate change are likely to amplify the adverse
  46. effects of climate change on habitats and native species,
  47. particularly
  48. intensifying the effects of wildfires,
  49. with that being in mind.
  50. As wildfires are on the rise, species like the ones stated earlier, such as bats,
  51. birds
  52. and various insects are defined as endangered
  53. and are slowly closing in on extinction.
  54. This then wages in on the human development
  55. of understanding such speeches and the overall vulnerability
  56. of the island's native biodiversity.
  57. Our 3rd major effect
  58. due to climate change, happens to be coastal hazards,
  59. which deals with issues surrounding fishers and coastal habitants,
  60. increased frequency of waves,
  61. greater coastal erosion, flooding,
  62. pollution and sedimentation and also ocean acidity.
  63. According to my main resource,
  64. quote quote with rates of sea level rise
  65. in the pacific region exceeding the global rate
  66. changing climate is predicted to deliver multiple
  67. impacts to coastal and low lying areas,
  68. including two fishers and coastal habitants,
  69. greater frequency of waves and groundwater andalucian events,
  70. greater rates of coastal erosion, such as flooding,
  71. pollution and sedimentation from runoff
  72. and the more frequent and widespread coral bleaching events
  73. from increased surface temperatures and ocean acidity.
  74. Many of these ocean inhabitants are
  75. seeking adaptation strategies and are looking for
  76. ways to prevent such hazards and coastal hazards to be specific
  77. through ocean chemistry as well.
  78. The next major effect deals with climate change versus forest management.
  79. Within this effect,
  80. we discuss insect borne diseases, food security and fresh water security.
  81. To bring light to this effect, we refer to the climate change complicated website
  82. that further states over the past century,
  83. pacific region air temperatures have increased and recently
  84. the rate of increase has been accelerating,
  85. particularly at high elevations with the results as varied, a bit
  86. upward migration of climate zones such as spread of insect
  87. borne diseases and shifts in cloud elevation formation and participation.
  88. Forest ecosystems impacts are as varied,
  89. too invasive. Plant encroachment and native
  90. forrest is to drawing of high elevation scrub lands
  91. um They continue So in retrospect to these,
  92. the people on these type of islands
  93. are trying to understand how forests resources are
  94. abundant and just their distribution
  95. as well as the affected
  96. changes within the environment
  97. with effects coming from climate change such as insect borne diseases,
  98. food security and fresh water security.
  99. You can see a
  100. annual trend of
  101. frequent or fluctuating population numbers
  102. due to these effects in general.
  103. This could cause a number of
  104. different effects, such as employment rates within these islands
  105. or
  106. family rates or just the overall environment. These islands pertain
  107. in comparison to what they used to
  108. as climate change effects.
  109. Moving on to our last major effect.
  110. Although this is definitely not the last
  111. climate change versus adaptation and management,
  112. which corresponds with food webs negatively impacted employment rates.
  113. Like for earlier discussed and resource management.
  114. This major effect is a combination of all,
  115. since it deals with the overall outcome of climate change because
  116. of things such as wildfires that cause arising endangered animals,
  117. human development and a number of insect born
  118. diseases.
  119. Aspects such as food webs are very impactful towards the island's inhabitants.
  120. That being said, the more they are negatively impacted,
  121. the more of a domino effect it becomes,
  122. which then ways unemployment rates and as
  123. well as resource management where it feels
  124. or may feel impossible to control the islands surrounding environment.
  125. Now, to bring light to this situation.
  126. According to various research,
  127. the inhabitants that live across the northern Mariana islands could
  128. potentially um involve home energy insulate applications and appliances and
  129. focus on food ways and utilize clean energy resources
  130. to decrease the or have a natural grass
  131. on the effects of climate change.
  132. My name is Fatima Shaheed and thank you once more.
  133. As we discussed,
  134. one of the many contemporary issues that the northern Mariana islands pertains.
  135. Thank you so much