Climate change is a change in weather patterns over long periods of time that can be caused by both natural and human factors. Human causes include increasing greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane that are trapping more heat and changing the climate. Effects of climate change include rising sea levels, stronger storms, and melting glaciers and ice sheets. Both large-scale actions like improving energy efficiency and developing renewable energy as well as individual actions like driving less and changing lightbulbs can help address climate change.

1. Climate Change:
Fitting the pieces together
Presented by:
Newbies Group

2. Do you remember ONDOY?

3. Are you one of them?

4. Are you ready for this?

5. What have we done?

6. WE ARE ALL VICTIM

7. CLIMATE CHANGE
• Is a change in the statistical
distribution of weather over
periodic of time that range from
decades to millions of years.
• Climate change may be limited to a
specific region or may occur across
the whole earth or planet

8. GLOBAL WARMING
Is the increase in the average
temperature of Earth’s near-
surface, air and ocean

9. What causes climate change?
Natural Causes
• Continental Drift
• Volcanoes
• The Earth’s Tilt
• Ocean Currents

10. Continental Drift
is the movement of Earth’s continents relative to
each other.

11. Volcanoes

12. The Earth’s Tilt

13. Ocean Currents

14. What causes climate change?
Human Cause
• Green House
Gases

15. “Greenhouse effect”
Increasing greenhouse gases trap more heat

16. Greenhouse gases
Carbon dioxide
Nitrous oxide
Methane
Water
Sulfur hexafluoride

18. Could the warming be natural?

19. Is it real?

20. Effects: Snow and ice
Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park
1900 and 2008

21. Aspen, CO Forecast:
Partly cloudy today
High : 28°F
Low: 13°F
Increasing clouds
over night. Colder
tomorrow.

22. Effects on ecosystems

23. U.K.: Train rails buckle
Germany: Lowest river levels
this century
France: >14,000
deaths Switzerland: Melting
glaciers, avalanches
Portugal: Forest fires
2003 European Heat Wave

24. Sea-level rise projections : a few inches to
a few feet
•2 ft: U.S. would lose 10,000 square miles
•3 ft: Would submerge Miami

26. Produce more fuel-efficient vehicles
Reduce vehicle use
Improve energy-efficiency in buildings
Develop carbon capture and storage processes
Triple nuclear power
Increase solar power
Decrease deforestation/plant forests
Improve soil carbon management strategies

27. Individual actions
Tune up Unplug
your
appliances or
Use mass furnace plug into a
transit, bike,
power strip and
walk, roller
switch it off
skate
Caulk,
Buy water-saving weatherstrip,
appliances and insulate, and
toilets; installing replace old Buy products
low-flow shower windows with a U.S. EPA
heads. Energy Star
label