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8. vii
Why read
this book?
What’s
happened
so far?
Why is it
warming?
Know your
enemy
Where’s
it coming
from?
Fast
forward to
tomorrow!
Start your journey, press me!
Making
progress!
Running
the race!
House of
solutions
What now? References
Index, and
everything
else
10. 2
Why read this book?
This book is about climate disruption, and the choices we have!
Too fed up to read yet another news article about how we’re all going to die?
No time for long boring reports? Want to have everything easily at your fingertips?
Want to know enough to make your own decisions?
If you’ve answered “Yes” to any of the above, this book was made for you!
“GIVE A CRAP ABOUT climate disruption!” 2
11. 3
Get a grip on the science!
Cut to the chase about what scientists worldwide are saying,
without the jargon and acronyms! Find out just how bad laughing gas really is,
and learn to calculate for yourself how much time we really have left to act!
Oceanographers!
3
Chemists!
Glaciologists!
12. 4
Protect what you love.
Climate disruption is messy. Its impacts cut across most of what we cherish -
how our kids will grow up to learn from our example, and what kind of future they’ll have.
The safety of our homes that we’ve worked so hard to build. Our peaceful and
magnificent countryside. Even the very values that define who we are.
How might we learn to better protect what we love?
This book gives you the critical knowledge to make the decisions that are right for you.
Whether you choose to follow your own moral compass, or defend what you own,
the direction we need to head in is often the same!
4
13. 5
But wait, there’s more!
You’ll gain a simple but powerful understanding of one of the toughest challenges
of our time. More importantly, you’ll learn to laugh in the face of adversity!
Hahaha, hahah!
“boo?”
5
15. 7
What’s happened so far?
Rising temperatures, breaking new records!
Melting poles, where it’s warming up much faster than everywhere else!
Bleaker oceans, that are losing oxygen, turning acidic, and powering rising tides!
Strange weather, headlined by fierce snowstorms, long droughts,
and more frequent extreme events.
These are early symptoms that many of us have seen with our own eyes. We’ve felt the
chill in our bones, and the sweat slicking off our back. Our smartest minds have analyzed
these symptoms with scientific instruments, and pored over them in great detail.
Now, see for yourself.
7
16. 8
It’s getting hot, hot, hot!
You might already know that between 1880 and 2012,
the average temperature of our planet rose by 0.85 degrees Celsius.
That’s 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit.54
Early indications show that we’ve now
warmed by a full 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.73
It’s the reason why we now have more warm nights and days than before.46
As of 2015, fifteen of the hottest years on record all happened in the previous fifteen
years, except for one. Can you guess the top three hottest years?116
rising
temperatures
8
17. 9
Record-breaking years!
As of late 2015, the hottest year on record goes to 2014!
Second place goes to 2010, and third place to 2005.116
rising
temperatures
2005
2010
2014 “TIME TO
bring back the
MANKINI...?”
9
18. 10
Record-breaking days!
Daily temperatures have been hitting record highs more often than
record lows. In 2015, record highs happened twice as often as record lows in the
U.S. and Australia. As we warm, it’s likely that we’ll continue to break
more and more records for hot days.103, 76
too hot
to fish?
YIPPEE!
rising
temperatures
10
19. 11
What does a gigatonne of ice look like?
Imagine an ice cube about 1.1 km tall, deep and wide. (That’s about 0.7 miles.)
If this was floating under the Golden Gate Bridge, it would just about
squeeze between the two towers!43
That’s a billion metric tons, or a gigatonne, of ice. A gigantic ice cube!
melting
poles
11
20. 12
Can you guess how many ice cubes have melted
from our ice sheets?
In just twenty years, Antarctica and Greenland have lost the net sum of
over four thousand of these ice cubes.*
Melting has speeded up too. Antarctica now loses a net sum of around 150 gigatonnes
of ice each year, while Greenland loses over 200 gigatonnes.111
* 4,260 gigatonnes of ice melted in the period 1992-2011
melting
poles
12
21. 13
Our North Pole is warming up much faster!
melting
poles In just fifty years, much of the Arctic has already warmed
by over 2 degrees Celsius (that’s 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).*80
* Between 1960-2011
“I’ll just lie down here
till it cools down...”
13
22. 14
Our seas are turning acidic faster
than we’ve ever seen before.
“OOH, THIS ACID FACE PEEL REALLY DOES WORK!”
bleaker
oceans
As oceans absorb the excess carbon dioxide from our atmosphere,
they become more acidic.54
Our oceans are now 26% more acidic, and rising.
We haven’t seen anything quite like this in the past 65 million years!49
Why does it matter? The more acidic our seas, the less carbon dioxide they can absorb.
This means more remains in our atmosphere to warm us up.38
Marine life, especially corals and shellfish like oysters and mussels,
face tough challenges as their world turns acidic.
14
23. 15
Suffocating seas!
“...can’t hold our
breath!”
bleaker
oceans
Did you know that warmer water can’t hold as much dissolved oxygen?
There’s also less oxygen the deeper you go, because warm water doesn’t mix
well. Oxygen from the air that dissolves at the ocean’s surface stays there,
instead of mixing downwards. Our seas are deoxygenating as it warms.
In our coastal seas, oxygen levels have dropped ten times faster than in the open ocean.
Scientists have recorded substantial drops off the west coast of North America.*
Dead zones, which are regions of water with very low oxygen, are also expanding
in the tropical Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.91
* Observed during 1976-2000. 15
24. 16
Rising tides.
Our seas have risen by 19 cm in the last hundred years.*54
This doesn’t sound like much, but it’s picking up speed.
What are countries doing about it?
Singapore, a small island nation, has increased the height of their reclaimed land, to
protect against the rising seas. Land is now reclaimed to a height of over two metres
above the highest recorded tide level.40
Vietnam, with its long seafront and many coastal
cities, is restoring mangroves to help reduce flooding in some areas.17
Other
countries are exploring stronger jetties and higher sea walls.
How will rising waters affect
where you live?
* From 1901 to 2010.
bleaker
oceans
16
25. 17
Why are our seas are rising?
4
bleaker
oceans
17
50%: melting ice! 54
40%: Expanding hot water! 54
10%: flushed
groundwater! 27
19 cm or
7.5 inches
26. 18
Coral reefs face a triple whammy!
bleaker
oceans
Poor reefs. Bashed by rising waves, eaten away by acidifying waters,
and bleached by the rising heat. No wonder they’re not feeling well!
Corals are very sensitive to temperatures. Like a canary in a coal mine,
bleached corals are a shrill warning to us that things are getting worse.38, 41
Coral bleaching has been happening in northeastern Australia since the ‘70s. It’s recently
started in western Australia too, affecting World Heritage sites like Ningaloo reef.88
All over the Pacific, Southeast Asia and Caribbean, corals are also
rapidly disappearing, due to heat stress and other factors.41
“I’M TURNING
WHITE WITH
WORRY!”
18
27. 19
Let it snow...?
“THESE SNOWSTORMS ARE
GETTING WEIRDER!”
strange
weather
Did you know that warm air holds more water vapour than cool air?
For every 1 degree Celsius it warms up, air holds 7% more water. In the
last forty years, water vapour has risen by 3.5%. It’s why we’ve had more
rain and snow, which has been spread unevenly worldwide.101
Some parts, like Europe, North and Central America, have had more rain and snow
since the ‘70s. We’ve seen more storms in the North Atlantic. Other parts, like southern
Australia, western Asia, western Himalayas and Japan, have had less snow and rain. It’s
likely that droughts have intensified in the Mediterranean and West Africa since 1950.46
19
28. 20
What’s coming next?
These symptoms are expected to get worse, but with plenty of hard work and
tough medicine, there’s hope that we can get better.
Before we can learn to solve it, we need to understand the next basic
piece of the puzzle - why is it warming?
20
30. 22
How could it be us?
Some of us feel that it must be the fault of our Sun, warming us to a crisp.
Surely only the Sun could have the power to make the kind of fast changes we’re seeing!
Some feel that it’s got to be our volcanoes, like the super eruptions that happened in
our fiery, prehistoric past. Our planet was young then, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
Others feel that it’s because of our planet’s tilt and orbit through the galaxy.
After all, isn’t this what triggered the Ice Ages?
Exhaustive, peer-reviewed scientific research shows that it’s none other
than the power of man that’s causing it.
Let’s check for ourselves!
22
31. 23
In the prehistoric past, super volcanoes caused some of our fastest warming periods.
Massive eruptions spewed out vast volumes of carbon dioxide, over thousands of years.
Our fossil record shows how some of these super eruptions led to mass extinction,
millions of years ago. What about now?
Today, we produce at least 80 times, to as much as 270 times,
more carbon dioxide than volcanoes every year.107
Is it warming because of volcanoes?
23
“GETTING so
DIZZY...”
32. 24
Is it warming because of the Sun?
Let’s check how much energy our Sun has been giving out. Our satellites in space have
measured this directly from 1978 to 2009. They’ve recorded no net increase in energy.79
Yet, over the same time span, we’ve seen temperatures continue to rise here on Earth.
What does research tell us? Over the past century, the Sun has been responsible for
around 10% of the warming we’ve observed. In the past twenty-five years, the Sun has
played practically no role at all in our rising temperatures.66
“LA LA LAAA,
IT WASN’T
ME!”
24
33. 25
Is it warming because of Earth’s orbit or tilt?
Ice Ages were caused by changes in our orbit and tilt. These changes take tens of
thousands of years. This effect is too tiny to explain the rapid warming we’ve seen.*78
* Our orbit moves from a rough circle to an oval, approximately every 95,000 years. Our planetary tilt shifts by a few degrees
about every 41,000 years. Our poles wobble in a roughly 26,000 year cycle. These are known as the Milankovitch Cycles.67
“...and i thought
i was going
pretty fast
already!”
25
34. 26
Why is it warming?
In our planet’s history, natural causes of large climate change have been because of
the Sun, the Earth’s orbit, super volcanoes and meteor strikes.78
Today,
none of these natural causes can explain our rising temperatures.
But, once you include the greenhouse gases we’ve released unintentionally,
the numbers all start to add up.54
“WHEN YOU HAVE
ELIMINATED THE
IMPOSSIBLE,
WHATEVER REMAINS,
HOWEVER IMPROBABLE,
MUST BE THE TRUTH!”
26
35. 27
People power!
The power we’ve demonstrated in changing our planet in just
three or four generations, is nothing short of incredible.
Since the dawn of human civilization, around half of our trees have disappeared.30
Today, agriculture blankets around two-fifths of all land on the planet.115
We might not have wielded our power so wisely, but we haven’t lost any of it!
We can just as successfullly turn the game around. Today, our knowledge is far deeper,
and our technologies much more sophisticated. If we choose to, we have the power to
switch it up faster than ever before! As with solar power, we’re already
seeing for ourselves just how fast we can go.
But first, as any good general knows, we need to understand just what we’re fighting...
27
37. 29
How well do you know your enemy?
Can you explain the greenhouse effect? Can you name the four top greenhouse gases?
How long do they live? How powerful are they at warming? How much are we releasing
each year? Where have all the extra greenhouses gases we’ve added in gone?
“Know your enemy, and know
yourself, and a hundred
battles you will win!
Know yourself,
but not your enemy,
and you might
win or lose...
Know not yourself nor
your enemy, and you will
always be in danger.”
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
29
38. 30
“I can’t mime
my way out of
this one!”
30
Not just a glass ceiling, but a glass greenhouse.
How do greenhouse gases work? They prevent heat from escaping the Earth, into the cold
space beyond. They turn our atmosphere into one giant greenhouse, trapping us in.
The more greenhouse gases we emit, the more powerful our invisible greenhouse.
Unlike a street mime only pretending to be trapped, our glass walls are all too real!
39. 31
What greenhouse gases are we releasing?
What’s public enemy #1? Carbon dioxide!
This made up 76% of our total emissions in 2010.
But, it’s not working alone...
Greenhouse gases also include methane, which added 16% to our emissions,
nitrous oxide, which added 6%, and fluorinated gases, which added 2%.55
Can you guess which one is which? (Hint: the more they pollute, the bigger they are!)
31
Credit: Jmol was used to create the 3-D visualizations of the Greenhouse Gang molecules.
Jmol: an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D. http://www.jmol.org/
40. 32
Chemical symbol: CO2
What is it made of? 1 carbon + 2 oxygen atoms.
How long does it last? over 20% remains for over 1,000 years.21
How much has it risen? 40% rise since pre-industrial times.78
The most common, and important, greenhouse gas!
Released when we burn fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas,
make cement, and burn forests.6
32
41. 33
Chemical symbol: Ch4
What is it made of? 1 carbon + 4 Hydrogen atoms.
How long does it last? more than 12 years.
How much has it risen? 150% rise since pre-industrial times.
How powerful is it? 28x the warming power of carbon dioxide.78
The second most common greenhouse gas!
Released from gas leaks when we mine for coal, oil and gas, from
belching livestock, rotting waste, and some common farming practices.105
33
42. 34
Chemical symbol: N2
0
What is it made of? 2 nitrogen + 1 oxygen atoms.
How long does it last? 121 years.
How much has it risen? 20% rise since pre-industrial times.
How powerful is it? 265x the warming power of carbon dioxide.78
Also known as laughing gas! Hahaha! Ha...
Released by soil bacteria feeding off chemical fertilizers and
manure left on pastures.2
Also released when we burn fossil fuels,
process sewage, and when we make nylon and chemical fertilizers.6,39
34
43. 35
Chemical symbol: CHF3
(Also known as HFC-23). one of many F-gases.
What is it made of? 1 carbon + 1 hydrogen + 3 fluorine atoms.
How long does it last? 222 years. some F-gases like CF4
last 50,000 years.
How powerful is it? 12,400X the warming power of carbon dioxide. SOME
F-GASES like SF6
ARE over 20,000X as powerful.78
F-gases are man-made; they don’t occur naturally.
These include CFCs, HFCs, and HCFCs. We use them to cool us down - in our
aircons, fridges, and chillers. We also use them to make our electronics.6
35
44. 36
What does a tonne of carbon dioxide look like?
Imagine a bubble that’s 10 metres high, tall enough to fit an adult Tyrannosaurus Rex!
(That’s a bubble over 30 feet tall.) This is what a metric ton of carbon dioxide looks like.
It’s easy to compare how much warming different greenhouse gases cause,
by measuring this in terms of “tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent”, or “tCO2
e”.
Did you know that over a hundred years, just 1 tonne of methane causes the same
warming as 28 tonnes of carbon dioxide? It’s even more powerful over the short-term of
twenty years, where methane has over 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide.
What about the others? Nitrous oxide is 265 times worse than carbon dioxide. Most of
the f-gases we use are several thousand times worse, some up to 23,500 times more.78
“POKE!”
36
45. 37
What does a gigatonne of carbon dioxide look like?
Now, imagine a billion bubbles filled with T-rexes. Rawr!
This would make a monster bubble, 10 km tall, deep and wide. That’s about the same
height as 30,000 feet - the cruising altitude of our aeroplanes.
This is what a billion metric tons, or a gigatonne (GtCO2
), of carbon dioxide looks like.
“squawk!”
37
46. 38
How much greenhouse gas do we emit in a year?
In 2010, we released greenhouse gases equivalent to 49 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide.
That’s the same weight as around one million Titanics!* 55, 36
* The Titanic weighed approximately 53,000 tonnes. 38
“and Our gas
will go on,
and on...”
47. 39
2010
1990
1970
0 10 20 30 40 50
27
gigatonnes
38
gigatonnes
39
49
gigatonnes
How much greenhouse gas we’ve emitted each year
(gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent)
Our emissions are growing fast.
In fact, they’ve doubled in just a few short decades.55
48. 40
We’re the first humans to see greenhouse gases this high.
Did you know that we’ve drilled deep into ice that’s over 800,000 years old? Trapped air
bubbles show that our prehistoric air contained much less carbon dioxide than today.69,70
Modern man, or “homo sapiens”, only evolved around 200,000 years ago.99
This means that we’re the first of our species to witness carbon dioxide levels this high.
With every breath we take, we’re making history!
“sigh, you
still using
dino power
like me?!”
40
49. 41
Where have all the greenhouse gases gone?
So far, we’ve emitted over two thousand gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, most of it
unintentionally.*54
Where’s it all gone? Into our sea, sky, and soils.
* From 1750 to 2011
Around 43% of this has remained in our atmosphere, causing
warming. About half of the remainder has been absorbed by oceans,
causing acidification; the other half has been stored in our lands,
like in our forests, peatlands and soils.54
41
51. 43
What’s producing our greenhouse gases?
In 2010, here’s roughly how we spent our emissions:55
• 1/3 released by our industries.
• 1/4 released by our farms and by clearing forests and peatlands.
• 1/6 released by our homes and offices.
• 1/7 released by our transport, mostly cars and trucks.
• 1/9 released by converting fossil fuels into usable energy, through mining,
refining, and transmitting it to where we need it.
43
that’s all the stuff
I buy, eat and use!
but, hey, you only
live once, right?
52. 44
Our industries give us many of our everyday comforts, things we treasure and things we
can’t live without. Today, industries have many ways to improve and become much more
emissions-efficient. Which are our most emissions-intensive industries?
Our industries!
44
Iron, steel, and cement manufacturers.
What else emits substantially?
These are industries that make:
• chemicals
• plastics
• fertilizers
• pulp & paper
• aluminium
• textiles
• processed food
Greenhouse gases also come
from badly managed landfills that
let methane escape, and untreated
wastewater.39
53. 45
Our farms!
Where would we be without our farmers? Hungry!
Our farmers work hard to feed us, but conventional farming tends to be high-carbon.
Where do most emissions come from?96
Lost lands
We clear forests and peatlands, for
more space to grow crops and cattle.
Belly belches
Cattle have four stomachs, like sheep and
goats. This means big belches, filled with
methane which is around 28x worse
than carbon dioxide.
Busy bacteria
They love cowpats and chemical
fertilizers, and get busy in our soils
making nitrous oxide. This is around
265x worse than carbon dioxide.
Flooded fields
How do we grow rice? The traditional way
of flooding paddy fields releases methane.
“four stomachs?
more space
for dessert,
right?”
45
54. 46
Can you guess whether homes or offices added more
emissions in 2010?
The answer is: Homes! These were responsible for two-
thirds of all emissions from the buildings sector.At home,
two-thirds of our emissions came from how we used
energy - mostly for keeping our homes warm, heating up
water, and cooking. The rest came from building them.67
Our homes and offices!
“ooh, very
chic!”
46
Setting the right temperature on your thermostat or aircon, and
keeping showers short and sweet, can make a sizeable difference!
Look around your home. Can you see quick ways to get smart about
the energy we use every day?
55. 47
This is a tough one. Data shows that emissions from our transport sector have doubled
since 1970. This is faster than most other sectors. What’s fuelling this rise?
Over 80% of it is due to the boom in our cars and trucks.
In 2010, road vehicles contributed over 70% of total emissions from all transport.
Aviation and shipping added about one-tenth each.
Did you know that more than half the oil we used in 2010 was used to power
around 90% of our transport?That’s oil going straight into our fuel tanks.
What if more of us used clean electric cars, or more public transport?95
Our cars and trucks!
“HONK HONK!”
47
56. 48
Today, most of our energy comes from coal, oil and gas.
Before we can use it, we have to produce it. This means mining, and refining. Then, we
need to make it usable. This means turning it into heat for our factories, gas we can
transport along our pipelines, or electricity we can send through our power grids.18,64
These activities, including leaks and losses, all release greenhouse gases.
Our energy supply!
48
57. 49
What does all this add up to?
Without knowing it, we’ve played a big role in changing our atmosphere.
Compared to 1750, our air today is 40% higher in carbon dioxide, 20% higher in
nitrous oxide, and 150% higher in methane.46
What does our future look like with this new atmosphere?
“I DIDN’T DO IT!”
“PEEYOO!”
49
58. Continue reading!
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but also the many opportunities to solve them! Find out about decarbonizing to
clean energy, electrifying all that we can, preserving forests and peatlands, the role of
geoengineering, like bioenergy with carbon capture storage and other techno-fixes,
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