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Our Earth: Our Responsibility
• Why to worry? • This is no Harry Potter!• How are we adding to the problem?• What we need to do?
Slide 3
Why should we worry?
Sea level rise
Global temperature rise
Oceans Warming
Ice sheets Shrinking
Arctic Sea Ice Declining
Glaciers Retreating
Ocean Acidification
Extreme Events
Whether you are a contractor, a vendor, a merchant or a government employee, CAN you live without oxygen and survive without water, and STILL BE hale and hearty?
This is the Reason Why the Environment is SO important !
Slide 4
Land & Sea : It’s Heating Up….
What gets us into trouble, is not what we don’t know, its what we know for sure, that just ain’t so
-- Mark Twain
Global land – Ocean Temperature Index
Source: NASA
Weather data from more than a thousand meteorological stations around the world, satellite observations of sea surface temperature
and Antarctic research station measurements. Credit: NASA/GISS
• Why should we worry? • This is no Harry Potter!• How are we adding to the problem?• What we need to do?
Slide 6
Climate: By the Stats
Going down by 11.2% every decade
CO2, Concentration Levels- Highest in 650,000 Years, Currently at 389 Parts Per Million (PPM)
Global Average Sea Level: Risen 4-8 Inches over the past century, 53 mm since 1993
Jan 2000 to Dec 2009- Warmest Decade Ever Recorded
Land Ice: Greenland Ice reducing by 24 Cubic Miles Per Year
Source: NASA
Slide 7
This is No Fiction
• Why to worry? • This is no Harry Potter!• How are we adding to the problem?• What we need to do?
Slide 9
This is How We Mess Up ….. Daily !
Industries Deforestation Plastic Waste
Water pollution Chemical Pollution Automobile Industry
• Why to worry? • This is no Harry Potter!• How are we adding to the problem?• What we need to do?
Slide 11
Think Green at Home
Save Water
Prefer Hybrid Cars
Save Trees for Future
Energy Efficient Lamps
Use Recycled Bags
Slide 12
Change Begins With Us
Embracing Nature From Young
Nurturing Nature
Slide 13
Eventually it will not be us who will deal with the most devastating effects of climate change ...
It will be our children, grand children …
Presentation ByK Raju
kraju06@gmail.com
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