Just ______ companies on the list of top emitters produced _____% of the cumulative global emissions of industrial ___&_____ from ______ to ______
Just 90 companies on the list of top emitters produced 63% of the cumulative global emissions of industrial carbon dioxide and methane from 1751 to 2010
______ of the Amazon has been lost since _____
one fifth of the Amazon has been lost since 1970
Big Ranches are blamed for ______% of all deforestation in the region
Big ranches are blamed for 80% of all deforestation in the region
In Caracas Venezuela there was a landslide on _______________
15th-16th of December 1999
Due to the landslide in Venezuela up to _________ people lost their lives.
More than _________ were made homeless after ________ homes were destroyed, washed away or buried under several metres of mud.
30,000 people
More than 40,000 were made homeless as 90,000 homes were destroyed
On the _______ 1999 in _________ Venezuela, ________mm of rain fell in ________ which caused debris flows.
This happened on the ______________ , which has very steep slopes _______ up
15th to 16th of December 1999 in Caracas Venezuela
991mm of rain fell in 52 hours
Aveda Mountain range, which is 2.5 km up
There were also some human causes for the disaster in Venezuela, there was ___________ which meant ________ had occurred which reduced the shear-_______ of the slopes.
The foundations of these buildings were likely _________ which increased _________ and create the environment for ______ and _______.
This was exaggerated by __________
Urbanisation
Cutting in/undercutting
Strength
Impermeable
surface runoff
flows and slides
deforestation
_____________ contain GPS and detect small movements in the shape of a ___________.
This data is then transmitted to USGS (____________) computers which creates __________ movement graphs that are available to different organisations like the ____________________
Spider Units
Slope
United state Geological survey
Slide Movement Graphs
California department of transport
Annual rainfall in the mountain in central Wales exceeds ___________. (tewkesbury)
2000mm
In _________ there were devestating floods that affected large parts of the UK, including the lower part of the _________ catchment
2007
Severn
________mm of rain fell in _____ days over the south of britain.
This was due to the jet stream (____ _____________) which got stuck over the UK, it is usually situated much more __________.
150mm
2
Low pressure
Northwards
Building on the Severn floodpain has increased the risk and there are plans to build ___________ homes by ______ with many of the chosen areas lying on floodplains.
575,000
2026
The conversion of pastures to arable farming in the severn basin, improves the __________ system which reduced the ____ _____
Drainage
lag time
The economic costs after the _____ flood in Tewkesbury were high. there was an estimated total insured loss for the event was £_______
2007
£1-1.5 billion
Anthropogenic heat is……
produced by human activity e.g industry
Warm ocean currents transfer ____% of the global energy whereas ____% is transferred by winds
20%
80%
since the ______ mass movement events have added to slope instability at Barton.
In ______and ______ there were major cliff falls, there has been a lot of different mitigation strategies. In 2022 there was a ______ ______ plan in Barton extracting ____ million tonnes over ___ years
1960s
2017 and 2018
gravel quarry plan
1.7
12
In 2017 there was the heaviest rainfall in ______ years which happend during the dry season.
The government balmed corrupt politicians from previous governments who allowed shanty towns to grow and build up slopes.
100 years