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National Geographic “Six° Degrees Could Change the World”
1. What could happen to the global climate by the end of this century?
An increase of 2°C to 6°C
2. What are some current signs of global warming in Australia?
Drought/Fires
3. How much could the temperature rise over the next 100 years?
1°C to 6°C
4. What is the hidden price for our energy consumption?
CO2 Carbon Dioxide
If the global climate is raised by 1°….
5. Ranchlands in the United States would become what type of environment?
Drier, desert like
6. What country would benefit from the 1° temperature shift?
England
7. _______90_____% of the world’s energy starts as fossil fuels.
8. What is the Carbon “footprint” (impact) of cheeseburgers in the US each year?
200 million metric tons
If the global climate is raised by 2°….
9. What type of environment could be completely lost from the Earth?
Tropical Coral Reefs
10. What will happen when the Ice fields of Greenland melt?
Oceans will flood cities
11. What is happening to sled dogs of Greenland?
4000 dogs that are no longer needed to pull ice sleds
12. How much could sea level rise over the next 100 years?
3 to 4 ft
13. What are some things that you could do to help prevent the rise of the Earth’s temp by 2°?
Less consumption
If the global climate is raised by 3°….
14. What happened in Paris in the Summer of 2003? Heat Wave killed thousands of people
15. Instead of putting out Oxygen as a product of photosynthesis, plants returned __CO2____________ to the
atmosphere.
16. How much of the world’s Oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest? 20%
17. In a 3° world what extreme weather pattern would become normal?
Deadly drought, fires, more storms, more El Nino events
18. How long was Katrina actually above New Orleans? 6 hours
If the global climate is raised by 4°….
19. What evidence is there for the loss of glaciers in the Himalayas?
Pictures showing the glacier disappearing over the last 50 years, satellite images from Nasa
20. What year do they estimate the glaciers will be gone?
2035
21. What will happen to New York if the global climate rises 4°?
Major flooding, high storm surge events (25ft storm surge)
If the global climate is raised by 5° or 6°….
22. What is the best way to survive this change?
Stay mobile, moving from place to place
How can we prevent it?
23. How much does a TV cost to be plugged in when it is not turned on? $160
24. Cars produce ___20%____ of the Earth’s greenhouse gasses.
25. What types of technology can be used to reduce our use of fossil fuels? Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Tidal
26. Where did the CO2 that we are putting into the atmosphere actually come from?
Carbon produced from the decaying of living things in the past.