What is global warming

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What is global warming?
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How Global Warming Works
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Example of the Greenhouse Effect
The Suns energy passes through the cars
windshield.
This energy (heat) is trapped inside the car and
cannot pass back through the windshield, causing
the inside of the car to warm up.
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• Whats the difference between global warming
  and climate change?

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Difference

• GLOBAL WARMING
• is the increase of the Earths average surface
  temperature due to a build-up of greenhouse gases
  in the atmosphere.

• CLIMATE CHANGE
• is a broader term that refers to long-term
  changes in climate, including average temperature
  and precipitation.

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Whats the proof that global warming is taking
place?
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Melting ice bergs
The polar ice cap in the arctic may have no more
summer ice by 2012
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Portage Glacier

• Alaska

Photos NOAA Photo Collection and Gary Braasch
WorldViewOfGlobalWarming.org
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Colorado River

• Arizona

June 2002
Dec 2003
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Effects of Global Warming
Water Supplies Dry Up - Where will the water come
from?

Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in China supply
the Yangtze River, which provides 40 of Chinas
water
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Effects of Global Warming
Increased Temperature
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Raging wildfires
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Global warming in the neighborhood
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Effects of Global Warming
Rising Sea Levels
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Hurricanes
HurricaneKatrina
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Forests

• Heating causes
• trees to dry and
• become susceptible
• to insects/disease
• Millions of acres of trees are dying

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25-30 of species threatened by climate change
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Polar Bears Drowning
Survival threatened by global warming
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Penguins harmed by human-caused climate change
Icebergs breaking off from climate heating block
access to feeding grounds and breeding places
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Will sea turtles survive?
Sea turtles lose nesting habitat from rising sea
levels
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• Global warming threatens "not simply the Earth,
  but the fate of all its species, ?including
  humanity," Jim Hansen, Leading Climate Scientist,
  NASA

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Why is global warming happening?
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Burning of Fossil Fuels
Pollution from coal, natural gas, and oil
Pollution from coal, natural gas, and oil
Pollution from coal, natural gas, and oil
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Every day humans release 70 million tons of
carbon to the atmosphere - increasing by 3 a year
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1000 Years of CO2 and Global Warming
Degree Celsius Increase
Parts Per Million
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Year
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• THE TIPPING POINT
• 383 parts per million
• 350 parts per million to
• stabilize climate

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Global Warming Shifting Gears
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Orphan Shares

• US - 30 of worlds
• Carbon emissions
• Every city, every county,every state must reduce
  carbon

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Billions of Metric Tons Carbon


Goal Reductions in CO2 Per Year
2007
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Our Goal
Billions of Metric Tons Carbon

Produce electricity efficiently Use electricity
efficiently Vehicle efficiency Solar and Wind
Power Biofuels Carbon capture and storage

Gigaton Carbon
Reductions in CO2 Per Year
2007
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End Coal

• One more new coal fired
• plant with its lifetime
• Emissions of CO2, could be
• the straw that breaks
• the camels back. Jim
• Hansen

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Whats being done now to reduce our emissions?
Solar Power
Wind Power
Fuel-Efficiency
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We can stop global warming!
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What can you do to help solve the problem?

• Talk to your parents
• Cut carbon at home
• 3. Exercise citizenship

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Discuss Global Warming with your Parents

• Its your Earth
• Its their job

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What is your carbon footprint?
The average American produces 20 TONS of carbon
every year!
We can reduce. We must reduce.
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CUT CARBON AT HOME!by 50
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Things to do

• Turn off your computer or the TV
• when youre not using it.
• Take shorter showers. Heating water uses energy.
• Keep rooms cool by closing the blinds,
  shades, or
• curtains.
• Turn off the lights when you leave a room.
• Use compact fluorescent bulbs.

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Be Bulb SmartUse CFLs
Whats the difference?
Compact Fluorescent
Incandescent

• 1,430 lbs. CO2 pollution avoided
• 30 saved

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Simple Things To Do

• Dress lightly when its hot
  instead of turning up
• the air conditioning. Or use a
  fan.
• Dress warmly when its cold instead of
  turning
• up the heat.
• Plant a tree.

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DONT DRIVE TO SCHOOL OR ACTIVITIES
Each average car emits one pound of CO2 each mile!
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Bike or walk instead!
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Dont Fly
Airplanes are a huge source of emissions. They
put pollutants up in the troposphere.
Wait for the solar airplanes!
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Think before you buy!

• Products from China and far away places have lots
  of embedded carbon
• Can you find a USA-made, or local product?
• Can you find something without packaging?
• Can you buy it at the thrift store?

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Eat Local Foods!

• Did you know the average
• meal travels 1,500 miles
• to the dinner table?
• Thats a LOT of carbon!
• Eating locally not only saves
• the planet, but it supports local
• farmers, provides more nutrition,
• and is FUN for the family!

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Buy from Local Farmers

• There are lots of ways. . . .
• Farmers markets
• Local food store
• Join a CSA
• Eat all organic!

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Plant a Victory Garden!

• Did you know the Victory Gardens of WWII
  produced 40 of the domestic food supply? Every
  home had a garden! Schools did too!

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A Victory Garden at the White House?

• Eleanor Roosevelt had one!

Made sense then . . . makes sense again!
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Eliminate Plastic

• Say NO to
• plastic grocery bags
• bottled water
• plastic cups, dishes and silverware
• plastic containers (refill in the bulk
• section of your store)
• soda pop - save it for a special treat!

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Exercise Citizenshipfor Climate Defense

• The Victory Speakers of World War II

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Step It Up

• Rallies across the country
• Arrest carbon growth
• by 2010
• Cut emissions 80 by 2020

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Make a statement
30 years ago, ice 11 feet thick - North Pole
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Cascade Middle School Makes a Statement - 2008
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Invite your leadersto a National Climate
Teach-InFeb. 5, 2009
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A class project