What can We do About Global Warming?

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What can We do About Global Warming?

• By Darlene Tesseyman
• Samantha Thomas
• Olga Khizver

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What is Global Warming?

• Global Warming is the increase in Earths average
  temperature that occurs because of greenhouse
  gases.

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What causes Global Warming?

• Global warming is caused from fossil fuels which
  are greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon
  dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide, and fluorocarbons.
• These gases allow sunlight to enter the
  atmosphere, and when the sunlight strikes the
  earths surface it is reflected back towards
  space as heat.
• This entrapment of heat is called the greenhouse
  effect.

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How do our communities contribute to this problem?

• We use and do harmful things that emit harmful
  gases into the air that deplete the ozone layer
  such as
• Hair spray
• Air conditioners
• We burn coal to generate electricity
• Cars
• We can also recycle
• Paper
• Metal
• And Other nonrenewable, recyclable products

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How much does the ordinary population know about
it?

• Ordinary people know very little about global
  warming- basically what the news tells you.
• However, it goes much deeper than that. Most
  people dont think about the future of our planet
  Earth and how global warming is depletes the
  ozone layer.

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What types of green gases are frequent/abundant/co
mmon in our community?

• Examples of greenhouse gases in our community
  are
• Carbon dioxide
• Methane
• Nitrous oxide

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How much do we know about the Kyoto Protocol?

• The Kyoto Protocol agreed on by governments at a
  United Nations Conference in Kyoto, Japan. It was
  signed to reduce the amount of greenhouses gases
  emitted by developed countries.
• However the United States did not sign this
  agreement.

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What can we do to participate in the solution?

• To help reduce global warming you can
• Use solar panels
• Stop using cars that emit harmful gases into the
  Earths atmosphere
• Help put more carbon on Earth by planting more
  trees and help preserve the ones we already have

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The End

• Animation by Samantha Thomas
• Pictures by Olga Khizver
• Slide design by Darlene Tesseyman
• Written by Samantha, Darlene, and Olga