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Ohhh! IT’S HOT IN HERE!

Ohhh! IT’S HOT IN HERE!. BY: KENZIE CARTER, ASHLEE KOLBE, and MARIAH VIS. What is Climate Change/ Global Warming?. A long-term, pretty significant change in the climate of an area or the earth. Could be a change in the temp. or weather patterns. Effects it has on the World & People.

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Ohhh! IT’S HOT IN HERE!

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  1. Ohhh! IT’S HOT IN HERE! • BY: KENZIE CARTER, ASHLEE KOLBE, and MARIAH VIS

  2. What is Climate Change/ Global Warming? • A long-term, pretty significant change in the climate of an area or the earth. • Could be a change in the temp. or weather patterns.

  3. Effects it has on the World & People • Instrumental temperature record (trend in rising temperature) • Rising sea levels • Decreased snow in the Western hemisphere • Observations of Arctic shrinkage & Arctic methane releases terrestrial carbon from frost • Agriculture • Heat waves

  4. Effects Cont. • Worsening droughts • Stronger hurricanes • Water shortage • Food production will be effected because of the shifts in temp and ran fall • People’s access to food by lowering their income from costal fishing because of rising sea levels • Production will drop 50% by 2050 which is a high enough decrease to put as many as 200 million in risk of hunger • May lower foreign exchange earnings because the lack of resources

  5. Examples of Specific Effected Areas • Darfur: Drought has led to many bad things in Darfur: no land for farmers to farm, etc. • The Gulf Coast: Recently an example from the gulf coast, is Hurricane Katrina. • Italy: Climate change has caused a tropical disease outbreak there, because of the mosquitos different living ways - caused by climate change. • Northern Europe: The warming has been a plus for Northern Europe, because the fruit is become richer and riper for their wine! • Great Barrier Reef: The carbon dioxide from industries ends up in to a lot of the oceans which doesn’t do anything for the life in the Great Barrier Reef.

  6. Continued • Island Nations- because of the ice melting, it causes the sea levels to rise and makes the islands not live able. • Australia: lots of forest fires lately have been said to have happened because of the climate change. • Caribbean: warmer seas making hurricanes even more likely!

  7. The Kyoto Protocol • The protocol is an amendment to the United Nations frame work convention on climate change. • It is an international treaty intended to bring countries together to reduce global warming and to cope with the effects of the temperature changes. • All started with George W. Bush. • Bush promised to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. • Shortly after that, he took office in 2001. • he withdrew the U.S. from the KP and refused to submit it to the Congress.

  8. Kyoto Protocol Now • In 2005, 165 U.S. cities voted to support the Protocol. • The United States along with Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, and the people’s republic of China, agreed to collaborate on strategies to cut green house gas emissions in half. • Supposed to happen by the end of the 21st century!

  9. What does Senator James Inhofe think? • James is the most outspoken critic of the global warming situation. • On July 28th, 2003 he said, “Much of the debate over global warming is predicted on fear, rather than science.” • Stated in his opinion that the threat of global warming is, “the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. • Thinks that global warming is just a weather cycle because there are cooling cycles & warming cycles.

  10. James Inhofe

  11. 2007 • 2007 is the year people started thinking that global warming was was made. • Said it was “very likely” aka the scientist think that there is a 90% - 99% chance that it is humans fault. • Temps started rising more rapidly since the ‘90s & even more in 2007. (Trend started 50 years ago)

  12. 2007 IPCC Report • When the major concern of species extinction began. • Ice melting is causing problems because it rises the sea levels. • Coral bleaching is happening because of the lower temps. • Climate change has no more positive effects was decided. • 2007 is when the knowledge of the effects was more spread.

  13. How do we stop global warming? • Need to be more precocious with the gases we are allowing into the air & save energy. • Individual level: use eco-friendly products, or renewable energy sources. • Conserve the resources that are slowly disappearing. (oil, coal, etc) • An “everyday” thing you can do is clean a dirty filter to save 50 pounds of carbon dioxide a year!

  14. Soures • http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/climateupdate.htm • http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php • http://www.bluemarble4us.com/ • http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=top-10-places-already-affected-by-climate-change&photo_id=40DF62BA-0F1F-8697-4B2CF7EB2B3364AC • http://globalwarming-facts.info/

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