Bioinformatics
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BIOINFORMATICS IN
CLIMATE CHANGE STUDIES
Why is climate change studies important?
Climate change studies is very important because climate change itself is impacting humans on earth one way or another. Impacts related to climate change are evident across regions and in many sectors important to society—such as human health, agriculture and food security, water supply, transportation, energy, ecosystems, and others—and are expected to become increasingly disruptive throughout this century and beyond.
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HOW DOES BIOINFORMATICS PLAY A ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE?
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A Global concern is the Climate change because of loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer and more intense heat waves. To solve this issue, bioinformatics may help by way of sequencing microbial genome which can reduce levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This plays an important role in stabilizing the global climate change. Not much work has been done in this area in bioinformatics domain, and more region-specific work must be conducted considering microbes of that region and their capability in CO2 reduction.
THE GREEN HOUSE GASES EFFECT interactive MAP
Earth is about 60 degrees F
Without the atmosphere, it would be 0 degrees F.
Energy from sun warms
Earth
Some escapes back into
s p a c e
Some is held by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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