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Title: Global Warming and its effect on the 21st century


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Global Warming and its effect on the 21st century
  • DG

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What is Global Warming?
  • Global warming is a gradual increase in a
    planet-wide temperature which goes hand-in-hand
    with changes occurring in the climate

3
What causes global warming?
  • Carbon dioxide (CO2)
  • Cars
  • Industrial plants
  • Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS)
  • Aerosol spray
  • Refrigeration/ air conditioning units
  • GREENHOUSE EFFECT

4
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
  • When Gases get caught between the atmosphere it
    traps some of the outgoing energy warming the
    planet

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What are the effects on the 21st century
  • Human Disease
  • Cholera
  • Vibrio Cholera
  • Contaminated water
  • Intestinal tract
  • Dengue fever
  • Viral disease
  • mosquitoes
  • Malaria
  • Blood stream

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Wildlife
  • Polar Bears live, eat, mate on the ice that is
    now melting
  • Some drown because there is not ice for the to
    sit on to take a break from swimming
  • 20-30 of plants and animals are at risk of
    becoming extinct if global warming persists

7
Droughts and Flooding
  • Since the weather is getting warmer forests
    become dryer which leads to forest fires
  • With the melting of the artic ice, comes rising
    of sea levels which causes flooding

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Thank-you
  • OUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN ARE GOING TO HAVE
    TO LIVE WITH OUR MISTAKES, CHANGE IT WHILE WE CAN
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