Climate Change – The Facts
1. Currently, what is the greatest threat to the world?
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2. The increase in what is associated with climate change?
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3. What is driving this rapid climate change?
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4. What area of the world could become uninhabitable?
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5. What percentage of species are at risk of extinction due to climate change?
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6. How much ice is being lost from the Greenland ice sheet?
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7. Where are people being displaced from?
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8. Why are trees important in regulation carbon dioxide?
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9. What are being used to predict the future of climate change?
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10. What could release lots of methane into the atmosphere?
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11. What percentage of the UK’s electricity comes from renewable sources?
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12. What is the carbon footprint of the average UK person per year?
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Climate Change – The Facts
1. Currently, what is the greatest threat to the world?
Climate change
2. The increase in what is associated with climate change?
Storms, floods, heatwaves, sea level rise
3. What is driving this rapid climate change?
The burning of fossil fuels
4. What area of the world could become uninhabitable?
The equatorial region.
5. What percentage of species are at risk of extinction due to climate change?
8%
6. How much ice is being lost from the Greenland ice sheet?
4 trillion tonnes of ice
7. Where are people being displaced from?
Vulnerable coastal areas, the South Pacific, Indonesia, Bangladesh
8. Why are trees important in regulation carbon dioxide?
The process of photosynthesis allows trees to remove and store carbon.
9. What are being used to predict the future of climate change?
Computer modelling systems
10. What could release lots of methane into the atmosphere?
The melting of ice sheets and permafrost.
11. What percentage of the UK’s electricity comes from renewable sources?
30%
12. What is the carbon footprint of the average UK person per year?
35 tonnes