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Focus Question

How is Global warming affecting our planet?


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Dummies

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1. Its affecting people, by flooding,
creating cyclones and hurricanes,
causing droughts and diseases to
break out.
2. Its increasing extinction of
species, by varying the optimum
temperature of existing species.
3. The polar ice caps are melting

Summary Dot Points (your words)


1. depending on the persons location, global warming
can increase the immunity of organisms. It can rise
sea levels, cause droughts and create unusual
weather patterns. EG; Storms, cyclones, hurricanes
and other natural disasters.
2. Changing climate is a massive problem for the
great outdoors, animals survive in specific climates,
but when it changes to much animals and plants
may not be able to adapt quickly causing them to
go extinct

Focus Question 2
What are the major problems?
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1. With rapid climate change, one/
fourth of Earths species could be
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2.

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1. Are wildlife are in danger of extinction, and they
are going to disappear very quickly if we dont try
and slow down global warming.

Global Warming For Dummies


Focus Question 3
How do we try and slow down Global warming?
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Summary Dot Points (your words)

Global Warming For


Dummies

1. Replace a regular incandescent light bulb


with a compact fluorescent light bulb with a
LED bulb. LEDs use 60% less energy than
a regular bulb. This simple switch will save
about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

1. Replace any high energy use light bulb, with


LEDs. LEDs use 60% less energy, therefore
saving more coal, lessening the amount of CO2 in
the air.
2. Cleaning filters in your air conditioners can
reduce the amount of CO2 in the air, slowing
down the process.

2. Clean or replace filters on your furnace and


air conditioner. Cleaning a dirty air filter can
save 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

Focus Question 4
Can we stop Global warming?
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Notes and Evidence


Summary Dot Points (your words)
1. Among those who recognise the
Global Warming for
realities of global warming and
1. Sadly, no. We cannot stop global warming, we are
Dummies
climate volatility, some dismiss
on a slow and steady path to destruction of the
them as part of the Earth's
ozone layer. But, we can slow it down. Just simply
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natural temperature cycle. As
try to use less energy, turn of switches when they
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we've learned from school
are not needed, use higher energy star
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textbooks, science fiction novels,
appliances, clean out air conditioner filters and
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and even children's television
use LED lightbulbs. There are many other ways to
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cartoons such as Dinosaur Train,
save the planet and to save energy and coal, we
our world used to be a lot warmer.
just need to try, and stop being lazy.
The extra heat then was and,
2. The earthe used to be warmer but over time it
perhaps, now is simply a part of
cooled down, but we are slowly making the earth
our planet's normal climate cycle.
heat up again by using coal.

Call it the divine plan of Mother


Nature. Others urge us to
acknowledge that we are the
cause or, at least, the accelerants
of the Earth's heating cycle. We
pollute the air, the land, the seas
and then we shrug when asked to
identify the causes of climate
change. Just hop on a plane to
any major industrial city and
you'll see that we're not entirely
without fault as you descend
through a layer of rust-coloured
smog. There is not consensus, not
even among environmentalists,
on whether global warming can
be stopped. However, there is
agreement that the levels of
pollutants released can be
reduced and a widespread belief
that the resulting decrease could
create climate stability. We can
lessen our future impact on the
environment. Certainly, nations
need to agree to reduce the
amount of pollutants that they
emit. There's also a role for each
of us to play. Recycling, planting
trees, reducing our energy
consumption, and carpooling are
just a few of the available options.
Unfortunately, it is unlikely that
the majority of us will apply
ourselves to this cause. Here's

why. Struggling for motivation It is


extraordinarily difficult to find the
motivation to act now to prevent
something that possibly, maybe,
just might occur 100, 250, or
1,000 years from now. Although
the effects of global warming can
be felt today - an increasing
frequency of hurricanes, heat
waves and droughts, the truly
spectacular consequences such
as the rising of the oceans to the
point that they envelop islands or
droughts that transform
farmlands into permanent deserts
are unlikely to occur in this
millennium. When the
consequences of global warming
are so far beyond the horizon,
there seems to be little incentive
to act. Even efforts to try to
encourage people to preserve the
world for their descendants, their
children's children rarely succeed.
Our sense of time spans two
generations back in the past and
two generations forward into the
future. That's it. Most people
cannot name a single greatgrandparent. Few parents can
conceive of the possibility of their
child someday becoming a
grandparent. It's our historical
and future-looking myopia that

makes it pretty much impossible


to for us to even imagine the
distant future. Also, let's admit
that some of the short-term
effects of global warming can be
outright pleasant. In my
hometown, Buffalo, New York, a
city notorious for blizzards and
winter storms, last week the
temperatures briefly climbed high
enough that residents could leave
their coats at home for a few
days. The ability to play golf
rather than shovel snow in
January can make climate
volatility seem more like a gift
than a curse. It's human nature to
struggle with temptation and to
not always act in our long-term
best interest. It is self-evident that
many of our personal health
problems and social ills - from
obesity to random murders could be eliminated or drastically
reduced if people could manage
to resist that urge to eat that
extra slice of cheesecake or buy
that assault weapon which was
meant to be deployed in war
zones and not in movie theatres
or classrooms. Nevertheless, we
indulge and bad things happen.
We, especially in the US, like big
cars and we like to own more than

one of them. We, by the tens of


thousands, go to racetracks and
watch for hours as cars circle the
speedway. We go to arenas, also
by the thousands, to see Monster
Jam events, cars and trucks
outfitted with giant wheels
crushing normal size vehicles.
This is not a critique. These
events are a lot of fun... but they
also are an anathema to people
who campaign against global
warming since they make
entertainment out of excessive
fuel consumption and
unnecessary carbon emissions.
Focus Question 5
What is making Global warming worse?
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Notes And Evidence


1. Fossil Fuels: Pollution whether it is
vehicular, electrical or industrial is
the main contributor to the global
warming. Everyday billions of
vehicles release various gases
into the atmosphere. This causes
earth to warm up and increase its
average temperature. Electricity
causes pollution in many ways.
Over 75% of the electricity
worldwide is produced by burning

Summary Dot Points (your words)


1. We are starting to use coal more than we used to,
and sometimes for no reason.
2. The sea level is slowly rising, causing food
sources to disappear
3.

of fossil fuels. Many gases are


sent into the air when fossil fuels
are burnt of which main is the
carbon dioxide gas.
2. Fossil fuel like coal is burnt to
produce electricity. Coal is the
major fuel that is burnt to produce
power. Coal produces around 1.7
times as much carbon dioxide per
unit of energy when flamed as
does natural gas and 1.25 times
as much as oil.
When the level of the sea rises, it
covers the plants and causes
some of them to die. When they
die, animals lose their main
source of food. We, human beings
lose our two sources of food,
plants and animals. It may also
force people to lose their homes.
In other words, the whole chain
will get affected if nothing is done
on time to stop global warming
from spreading its wings.

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