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Question: Which of the following statements is false about the impacts of climate change? Choose all that apply.
Group of answer choices
A) A drought- and heat-induced increase of wildfires can have continent-wide impacts on human health
B) Lower temperatures in some areas and at certain times are expected due to disruption in typical weather patterns.
C) An increase in land conversion from natural habitats to developed or agriculture can reduce the zoonotic potential of diseases
D) In the US, increased temperatures disproportionately affect the health of marginalized communities
E) The conditions brought about by climate change may actually benefit agricultural productivity
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Is the following reasoning correct?
Climate change is having a wide range of impacts on the environment, including increased temperatures, extreme weather events, melting ice and rising sea levels. This can lead to changes in ocean circulation patterns and ecosystems, as well as disruptions to food security and human health.
Options C and E are false.
Climate change is expected to have a wide range of impacts on humans, including an increase in drought and heat-induced wildfires with continent-wide effects on human health, disruption of typical weather patterns leading to both higher and lower temperatures at certain times and places, increased risk of vector-borne diseases due to changes in climate conditions that favour their spread, greater exposure due to the disproportionate effect on marginalized communities within the US, and decreased agricultural productivity due to extreme weather events. The statement C) An increase in land conversion from natural habitats to developed or agriculture can reduce the zoonotic potential of diseases is false because while it is true that land conversion may reduce some risks associated with disease transmission (such as reducing contact between humans and wild animals), this does not necessarily lead to a reduction in zoonotic potential. Furthermore, statement E) The conditions brought about by climate change may actually benefit agricultural productivity is also false because many studies have shown that extreme weather events caused by climate change are likely to decrease crop yields rather than increase them.
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