Climate Change

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Climate Change

• CICE
• ESD module Session 3

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climate change?????
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4.5 billion
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The Earth is 4.5billion years oldhow long is a
minute?
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150
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150 years (give or take) of Industrial Revolution
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5
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5 greenhouse gases
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0.76100
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The Earth has warmed 0.76 degrees over the last
100 years

• 1990s warmest decade in the last millennium
• http//www.epa.ie/whatwedo/climate/

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2 degrees or less

• To avoid the worst impacts
• Feedback loops and runaway change
• Mark Lynas- Six Degrees Our Future on a hotter
  planet (2007)

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278450
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278- 450 parts per million (ppm) of C)2 in the
Earths atmosphere

• 278ppm pre-industrial era
• 385ppm by 2007
• 450 ppm ALERT! we must keep under this level

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17 tonnes of GHGs

• The amount of GHGs emitted in Ireland
• per person
• each year
• Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda, four
  of Ireland's priority aid countries in Africa,
  each produced 0.1 tonne per person.
• A fair share? Who feels the effects?
• http//www.stopclimatechaos.ie/calltoaction/irelan
  dsrecord1.html

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BBC1 Natures Great EventsWed 11th Feb 9pm
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1319902012
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13 above 1990 levels by 2012

• Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1990
• Bali Roadmap follow up
• Poznan last Dec
• In 2005? 25 ABOVE 1990 levels

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80/20
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80 of the worlds resources are controlled by
20 of the world

• Climate change- a justice issue?
• Mitigation
• Adaptation
• World Population in 2050 9.1billion!
• http//www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID13451
  CrpopulationCr1

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Some useful resources/ websites

• Interesting cartoons (not for children!)
• http//blog.newint.org/cantankerousfrank/
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-
  their helpful graphs and reports
• http//www.ipcc.ch/graphics/graphics.htm
• Christian Aid Learning resources
• http//learn.christianaid.org.uk/TeachersResources
  /primary/Index.aspx
• Irish Environmental Protection Agency
• www.epa.ie
• Annual Climate Camp- summer holiday plans?
• http//climatecamp.org.uk/
• Feasta- Economics for Sustainablility,
  originators of cap and Share policy
• http//www.feasta.org/
• Stop Climate Chaos
• http//www.stopclimatechaos.ie/
• Global Cool
• http//www.globalcool.org/
• Live Earth
• http//liveearth.org/