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Understanding my role in climate change and how it affects me
How does what I do today impact the future of our Earth?
Global Warming vs. Climate Change
"Global warming" describes an average temperature increase of the Earth over time.
"Climate change" describes how weather patterns will be affected around the globe. (includes temperature and how that
impacts the water cycle (ice melt, precipitation, and their impact on weather patterns)
- NC State University
How is Wisconsin’s Climate Changing?
Wisconsin’s Changing Climate
Wisconsin:ThenNowIn the future
Climate Wisconsin
How is Wisconsin’s average temperature changing?
How can that impact our lives, our economy?
Birkebeiner
Ice Fishing
Fly Fishing
Great Lakes Shipping
What Causes Climate Change?
Human Activity
Natural Causes Ocean currents Earth’s tilt Earth’s orbit Volcanic Eruptions
What’s the Big Deal with Carbon?
All living things on Earth have carbon in them
Carbon combines easily with other elements to form new compounds
Remember this cycle:
Source: Buzzle.com
What’s the Big Deal with Carbon?
Source: NASA Climate Kids
What’s the Big Deal with Carbon?
When fossil fuels burn, we mostly get three things: heat, water, and CO2.
We also get some solid forms of carbon, like soot and grease.
All that carbon stored in all those plants and animals over hundreds of millions of years is getting pumped back into the atmosphere over just one or two hundred years
Source: NASA Climate Kids
So, is carbon good or bad?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas – so it helps trapheat close to Earth
So, its good….up to a point.
National Geographic:
Worldwide Carbon Dioxide Emissions MapUnit converter
1000 tonnes (metric ton) = 2,204,623 pounds
What are Greenhouse gases? Greenhouse gases are made out of:
Water vapor Carbon dioxide Methane (CH4) – Found in animal
waste & production in digestion, emitted from landfills as waste breaks down, emitted when natural gas and oil are burned
What are Greenhouse gases?
Nitrous oxide – (Nitrogen cycle) – emitted through agriculture, industrial process, wastewater management and fossil fuel consumption
What are Greenhouse gases? Ozone -- Ozone - (ground level) - Formed
when nitrogen oxides and VOC (volatile organic compounds) react in the presence of sunlight
Eg. VOC - Emissions from industries, electric utilities, motor vehicles, and chemical solvents
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) - used to be used in aerosols, refrigerators, air conditioners, they are a VOC
Wisconsin and Greenhouse Gases
HOW WILL IT AFFECT US?
Farming
Phenology
Forestry
Adaptation and Mitigation
GREENHOUSE GAS CALCULATOR
Play the game to have a successful farm, while reducing greenhouse gases
What’s this greenhouse effect?
National Geographic:
Likely Scenarios if Climate Change Continues
Brainpop Video: Greenhouse Effect
National Geographic:The Greenhouse Effect
Carbon footprint
The amount of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, emitted into the atmosphere by a person, company, country, etc activities.
What can I do to reduce carbon footprint?