The document discusses the evidence and impacts of climate change. It notes that glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking, seasonal events are occurring earlier, and species ranges are shifting. A layer of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in the atmosphere and have warmed global temperatures by 1.4 degrees F over the past century. Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that the warming trend is very likely human-caused. The impacts of climate change include rising sea levels, more frequent extreme weather events like hurricanes and wildfires, ocean acidification, and threats to one million species. Urgent action is needed to address the crisis and transition away from fossil fuels to protect the planet for future generations

1. Climate change: Vital signs of the planet
How did we reach here!!!!
Nature has enough for everyone’s need, not for everyone’s greed
World population-7 Billion
Glaciers
have
shrunk
Ice on
rivers, lakes
breaking up
earlier
Plant &
animal
ranges
have
shifted
Trees
flowering
sooner
More intense heat
waves
Global area
affected by drought
has increased
(since 1970s)

2. A layer of greenhouse
gases – primarily water
vapour, and including
much smaller amounts
of carbon
dioxide, methane and
nitrous oxide – act as a
thermal blanket for the
Earth, absorbing heat
and warming the surface
to a life-supporting
average of 59 degrees
Fahrenheit (15 degrees
Celsius)
Ninety-seven percent
of climate scientists
agree that climate-
warming trends over
the past century are
very likely due to
human activities

3. 3
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only
arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
Freshwater availability projected
to decrease in
Central, South, East and
Southeast Asia by the 2050s

4. Fast facts, The clock is ticking fast
• On august 2013-Co2 level as high as
395.15PPM.
• Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its
first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar
bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the
sea-ice loss.
• More than a million species face extinction from disappearing
habitat, changing ecosystems, and acidifying oceans.
• Our Earth is warming. Earth's average temperature has
risen by 1.4°F over the past century, and is projected to rise
another 2 to 11.5°F over the next hundred years.
Earth is our treasure, not our dump

5. • After 2000 years of minimal change in global average
sea levels, it rose at 0.13inches per year between 1993
& 2011.
• Global average surface temperature is rising at more
than 0.15F per decade & 2001-2010 was the warmest
decade.
• Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the
acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about
30 percent. Acidifying at the fastest rate in 300 million
years.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children. We need answers for them.
Fast facts, The clock is ticking fast

6. Consequences for not acting now
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on earth as its other
creatures do
1931 China flood: death toll-4 million

7. 1976 Tangshan earthquake
China ::1 million death toll
Tangshan earthquake
memorial

8. 2005 Hurricane Katrina Katrina

9. 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

10. Uttarakhand Disaster

11. What you can do?
• If you want to live a long life, focus on making
contributions. Plant trees, save water, conserve
electricity & educate yourself as well as others.
• If you have entrepreneurial aspirations ,put your ideas in
the context of climate change.
• Join the movement against fossil fuels & oppose any
deforestation activities around your vicinity.
• Change your behavior and most importantly try to lead a
harmonious life devoid of artificial luxuries because true
luxury is harmony with the nature.
• Support organizations who are actively fighting to save
our planet.
Sometimes the questions are complicated but the answers are simple

12. Protecting our Forest cover
Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet.

14. Did the planet betray us or did we betray the planet?
Taken as a
whole, the range
of published
evidence
indicates that
the net damage
costs of climate
change are likely
to be significant
and to increase
over time.