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Al Gore and Global Warming

Al Gore and Global Warming. By: Eric Walker. Al Gore and Global Warming . By: Eric Walker. http://guardianlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/New-IPCC-report-disproves-its-own-predictions-on-global-warming.jpg. AL Gore.

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Al Gore and Global Warming

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  1. Al Gore and Global Warming By: Eric Walker Al Gore and Global Warming By: Eric Walker http://guardianlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/New-IPCC-report-disproves-its-own-predictions-on-global-warming.jpg

  2. AL Gore http://assets-s3.rollingstone.com/assets/images/blog_entry/1000x306/8f18ba2725599676ae071c177b26602bdbb8c03a.jpg • Founded the Climate Reality project • Known as a “Champion of the Environment” • An Inconvenient Truth won the award for best documentary • Co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental work

  3. http://www.carbontax.org/wp-content/uploads/Carbon_Tax_Graph___paradigm4.jpghttp://www.carbontax.org/wp-content/uploads/Carbon_Tax_Graph___paradigm4.jpg Background • After he became vice president in 1993, Gore took the lead in shaping the Clinton administration’s environmental agenda • Most notable contribution to the environmental movement is him as an author • Made a carbon tax • Gore saved the Kyoto Treaty in 1997

  4. Life after Politics • Gore began doing lectures to college students about global warming • In 2007 Time magazine named him runner-up to the person of the year • In 2013 Gore Published The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change http://www.encore.org/files/imagecache/230wide/algore2.jpg http://assets.inarkansas.com/36741/al-gore.jpg

  5. Global Warming • Green house gases get trapped in the atmosphere • Creates a lot of heat http://marinebio.org/i/globalwarming.jpg

  6. Affects of Global Warming • Deaths from global warming will double in just 25 years to 300,000 people a year • Global sea levels could rise by more than 20ft with the loss of the ice shelf in Greenland and Antarctica • More than a million species could become extinct • Heat waves will become more frequent • The Arctic ocean could ice-free by 2050 • 2005 was hottest year on earth since the late 19th Century

  7. Svante August Arrhenius • A Swedish scientist • He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903 • In 1905 became Director of the Nobel Institute where he remained until his death • In 1896 he was the first scientist to attempt to calculate how changes in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect

  8. Things that could help • Recycle • Car Pool • New power sources • Hydrogen Power • Wind Power • Solar Energy

  9. “An Inconvenient Truth” Movie • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KkrlhoFbBM

  10. Bibliography • "Al Gore." Environmental Encyclopedia. Gale, 2009. Biography in Context. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.Document URLhttp://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?query=&contentModules=&d • Klein, EzrA. "Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" Movie: Fact or Hype?" National Geographic. National Geographic Society, 23 Aug. 2013. Web. 19 Nov. 2013. • Lovgren, Stefan. "Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" Movie: Fact or Hype?" National Geographic. National Geographic Society, 25 May 2006. Web. 19 Nov. 2013. • Uppenbrink, Julia. "Arrhenius and Global Warming." Science 272.5265 (1996): 1122. Biography in Context. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. • Http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/AcademicJournalsDetailsPage/AcademicJournalsDetailsWindow?query=&pro\ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tkDK2mZlOo • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KkrlhoFbBM

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