Global Warming can destroy our planet

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Global Warmingcan destroy our planet!

• If we just sit and do nothing about it.

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Changes

• Scientific consensus is that human activity,
  mainly carbon dioxide emissions, is causing
  global warming.
• Every time we use electricity or gasoline, we are
  sending CO2 emissions to the atmosphere.

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Global Warming

• World before Industrial revolution, 1800
• CO2 level low
• No fossil fuel emissions (oil, coal, gas).
• Weve had a global climate equilibrium for the
  last 100,000 years its like we had a very
  comfortable blanket developed specially for us.
• Now we have a huge blanket (caused by the extra
  human-made emissions in the atmosphere)
• made of heat-trapping, heat-emitting IR
  greenhouse gases.

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Global Warming
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• How hot will the Earth be in a few years?
• Depends on us.
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/04/c
  limate_change/html/climate.stm

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CO2 in the atmosphereYears 1960-2000
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CO2 in Atmosphere Years 1000 -2100
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Earths Surface Temperature Years 1000 -2100
How hot it ultimately gets depends on us.
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Global average temperatureYears 1860-2000
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Consequences

• Polar caps melt
• Sea level rise
• Extreme temperatures
• Cyclones/tornadoes
• Drought / floods
• Disease
• Agriculture losses
• Extinction of animal species, corals, vegetation
• Worst case scenario stop ocean conveyor belt

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Kilimanjaro (Tanzania, Africa)
30 years later
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Lake Chad

• Was the 6th largest lake in the World!
• A study by U. Wisconsin-Madison and NASA's EOS,
  the lake is now 1/20th of the size it was 35
  years ago.
• W. Africa (Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon), the
  region has suffered from an increasingly dry
  climate, experiencing decline in rain since early
  1960s.

We are causing Extreme poverty in Africa due to
our emissions which accounts for 25 of all world
emissions compared to Africas 3.
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Patagonia (Argentina)Longest Glacier in S.A.
1928 2004
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Costa Rica

• First official lost species due to Global
  warming
• the golden toad
• Female Male

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Hurricanes

• 10 hottest years ever, occurred in the last 14
  yrs.
• 2003 1st hurricane ever in the S. Altantic Ocean
• 2005 highest of hurricanes,
• most intense, 6 Greek letters
• 2005 Wilma strongest hurricane ever recorded AO
• Then
• 2006 Monica strongest hurricane ever recorded
• Luckily, this year (2006), El Niño decreases
  hurricanes

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Icebergs with caves broken food chain
60 of krill population killed because of this.
Krill are small shrimp-like crustaceans
zooplankton, food for baleen whales, mantas,
whale sharks, seals, and a few seabird species
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Worst case scenario abrupt changeIPCC
(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Due to change in salinity, if Artic keeps
melting, this current could stop, creating a
small ice age in Europe and North America.
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On top of this

• New blooming economies want to live their own
  version of the American Dream.

Example in China, the traditional bicycle lane
was closed to lay way to an extra automobile
lane. India is now also flourishing economically
and greatly increasing their CO2 emissions.
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Potential Solutions

• Reduce CO2 emissions
• Reduce energy consumption
• Alternative green power solar, wind
• Reforestation
• Increase fuel efficiency e.g. fuel cell, hybrid
  cars
• Emission trading- Kyoto Protocol signed by 135
  nations in Kyoto, Japan to reduce emissions.
• Not signed by U.S. or Australia!, the 2 nations
  with the highest emissions.

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The Good News is

• We can make a difference

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Weve done it before! Ozone Layer Montreal
Protocol's ban on CFCs

• For years, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were the
  agents--contributing to the destruction of the
  Earth's ozone layer.
• After the Montreal Protocol's ban on CFCs,
  slightly-more benign HCFCs replaced them..

The ozone layer is healing, but there is still a
higher incidence of skin cancer and other
diseases in the World due in part by this hole.
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More Good News

• You can save over 2,000 every year while helping
  the planet!

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Top 16 Things Save with NO initial cost

• Turn off (or even better, unplug) appliances
• (consider a power strip), cord instead of
  cordless phones
• Turn off water faucet,
• shower not baths, flow
• change shower head
• Clean air-conditioning filters
• Tune-up car, keep balanced,
  Accelerate minimum only
• MPG

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• Turn down Water heater, and air
  conditioner
• Use sheets instead of blankets
• Turn off PC, printers, when not using
• Use Laptop instead of PC
• Use cold water for washing cloths!
• Hang clothes if possible
• Use dishwasher only when full
• Wash by hand if possible

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• Eating habits
• Eat less meat (less methane)
• Eat local products
• Plant trees
• They also lower house T in summer,
• They reduce CO2
• Car pooling, walking or biking
• Avoid sanitary dishes/napkins
• Both styrofoam or paper

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• Buy products with least packaging
• Large family packs
• Gift bags instead of wrapping
• Water bottles! ? - use refillable bottle.

Packaging and clean water production needs a lot
of energy and releases tons of CO2 in the
atmosphere annually.
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• Be a wise consumer
• Buy less
• Give away things you not longer use.

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• Recycle!
• (plastic, paper, cardboard, cans, glass)
• Email your senators, government officials
• Sign petition at www.undoit.org
• Sign petition at climatecrisis.org

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Top 11 Things Save with some initial cost

• You will recover the initial costs quickly and at
  the same time, reduce emissions greatly.
• Consider solar water heater
• Replace light bulbs with coiled fluorescent

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Top 11 (cont)

• Consider new appliances with Energy Star
• MYTH Not all new appliances are energy
  efficient!! Check the labels carefully.

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Top 11 (cont)
Transportation accounts for 67 of oil used!

• Consider buying a small car or a Hybrid,
• Use public transportation
• Eat organic products (better health, less Br)
• Consider wind or solar power
• Use silicone or dark baking pans
• Use reusable plastic or cloth coffee filter
• Use rechargeable batteries

Green means its also good for your HEALTH.
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Small changes, make a big difference
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In summary

• ave Money, improve your Health, Save the Planet!

In doing so, we are indirectly helping the
extreme poor is our moral responsibility.
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Political Issues

• Oil industry interests,
• Lobbyists
• Governments covering up scientific evidence
• (e.g. NASA climatologist, Jim Hansen)
• Real cost of nuclear energy
• Should include the cost of waste disposal and the
  cost of medical treatment of potential health
  diseases due to radioactive materials.
• versus cost of clean energy like solar or wind.

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Take action!
Stop Global Warming
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With your helpwe can save the World!
We are ONE human race we only have
ONE planet. Lets use its resources
efficiently so that we can all benefit from it.
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Book References

• The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
• Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
• An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
• The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
• Global Warming by Chris Spence
• Pathologies of Power, Paul Farmer
• Mini Atlas of Global Development, The World Bank

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Web References

• www.nasa.gov
• www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming
• www.povertymap.net
• www.unmillenniumproject.org
• www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk
• www.noaa.gov
• www.borgenproject.org
• www.unicef.org
• www.energyhog.org FUN!! (PC games)