Climate Changes

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Climate Changes
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The course has the following objectives

• understanding the phenomenon from the point of
  view of Physics
• making the young generation aware of the new
  climate changes
• identifying the changes that have occurred in the
  students own country by giving clear examples
• suggesting measures that should be taken, in each
  country, in order to stop or to diminish this
  phenomenon

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The lessons will be as follows

• Lesson I General presentation of the phenomenon.
  Causes.
• Lesson II The effects the greenhouse effect
  and its damage, air pollution and its effects on
  animals, birds and human beings, environmental
  changes in each country and on Earth as a whole,
  ocean warming.

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• Lesson III Ways of reducing or even stopping
  this phenomenon solar heating systems, wind or
  water energy, etc.
• Lesson IV Measures to make people aware of these
  effects students from each school will have to
  realize a questionnaire about climate changes and
  a statistics concerning the knowledge of this
  phenomenon and the measures taken within
  households, schools, cities and countries to stop
  it.

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What makes climate change?

• Changes in the sun
• Changes in the earth's orbit
• Changes in the clouds
• Changes in ice sheets
• Changes in the gases in the atmosphere
  (Greenhouse effect)

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Human-Forced Climate Change

• Climate changes can be natural or human caused

Humans can affect the climate by changing
the gases in the atmosphere. (greenhouse
effect).
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The Greenhouse Effect
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• Romania, like other countries are often
  confronting nowadays with floods, tornados and
  even with the desertification process. The
  climate changes caused by excessive pollution are
  already affecting the citizens way of life

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Effects of Climate Change

• Greater air pollution
• Severe and frequent extreme weather events such
  as storms, floods, droughts, tornadoes, heat
  waves
• Increase in diseases transmitted by mosquitoes,
  ticks or rodents because of changes in
  precipitation and temperature
• Fresh water sources threatened with rapidly
  shrinking glaciers and drought

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• Intense exposure to suns ultraviolet rays due to
  thinning ozone layer leading to more skin cancer
  and impaired vision
• Inadequate food production due to environmental
  changes and pollutants
• Changes in population distribution

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Heat Absorption by Ice Masses

• Arctic ice, Antarctic ice
• Mountain glaciers
• Mt. Kilimanjaro glacier will disappear within 20
  years
• Chacaltaya glacier, Andes Mountains, will
  disappear in 7-8 years (water supply for La Paz,
  Bolivia)
• Italian Alps will lose its permanent ice in
• 20-30 years
• Glacier National Park is losing ice at an
• accelerating rate

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How will climate change affect people?

• Everywhere
• Sea-level rise
• Ecosystem change
• effect on species
• effect on farming
• Melting of polar ice
• effect on shipping
• effect on wildlife
• Coral death

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How will climate change affect people?

• Everywhere
• Increase in intensity of hurricanes
• Increase in droughts in some places
• Increase in intense rain in some places

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How will climate change affect people?

• Everywhere
• How will humans react
• Surprise changes

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The Challenge Sustainable Energy
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The Challenge Food Security
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The final products of the course will be

• realizing a questionnaire among the students from
  each school and a statistics concerning the
  knowledge about this phenomenon
• making a poster about climate changes that will
  be posted in each school
• making a film about climate changes in the
  students own country or city.

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GOOD WRITING SKILLS
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WHY A COURSE ON WRITING SKILLS?

• We have chosen this course as our students as
  well as all of us are writers in one way or
  another writers of letters , memos, reports,
  daily diaries or greetings on Christmas cards and
  so on .

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• By attending this course you will be able to
  write a better letter, avoid those grammar
  gremlins and make written English your most
  valuable tool at work, school or home. You may
  also find how to get the response you want, how
  to use clear, cliché-free ways to convey sympathy
  or express what you really feel without falling
  into the common writing traps.

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OBJECTIVES

• to make students aware of the difference between
  speech and writing
• to observe examples of good and also bad writing
• to get students familiar with the structure of
  different pieces of writing ( a CV, a letter of
  application etc)
• to enable students to create their own effective
  pieces of writing.

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STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE

• LESSON 1. How To Write Clearly and What Language
  You Should Avoid
• LESSON 2. A Few Refreshing Things In Grammar and
  Punctuation
• LESSON 3. How To Create the Perfect CV
• LESSON 4. Say What You Mean, Get What You Want
  Creating Persuasive Pieces of
• Writing.

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FINAL PRODUCTS

• Students will have to write their own European CV
• They will have to exchange
• E-mails on certain topics applying the newly
  learned rules and notions

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In Romania most investors and business men are
foreigners, they had to present their CVs and job
applications in English and according to the new
European requirements. Therefore, we consider
that students might need some extra information
and practice on this topic as during the classes
at school it is difficult to cover all aspects
and to study enough examples. We hope you will
find this course as useful as we do. Of course,
suggestions and comments will be more than
welcome. I hope you will enjoy it. Good luck!