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The Environment And Globalization Adam Butterman, Matthew Tonge, and Riley Frankel What is Climate change? Climate change refers to the change in the usual weather found in a specific area - eg changes in rainfall, or seasonal temperature

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The Environment And Globalization

Adam Butterman, Matthew Tonge, and Riley Frankel

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What is Climate change?

  • Climate change refers to the change in the usual weather found in a specific area - eg

changes in rainfall, or seasonal temperature in a specific area

  • Climate change also occurs in the Earth's climate - this may include a change in Earth's usual

temperature or changes regarding where rain and snowfall

  • Climate is always changing - Historically there have been times where the climate has been

warmer or cooler than it is now

  • Don’t confuse climate change and weather change
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So what is Global warming?

  • Global warming refers to the changes in temperature which is typically attributed to the

greenhouse effect - warming that results due to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.

  • Global warming is often linked to everyday human activity such as industrial operations or

driving our cars. Warming is also linked to the destruction of tropical forests. Such human activity has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by more than 20 percent in the past 100 years.

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The impact of Global warming on Climate change

  • Globalisation has had a significant impact on Global warming and therefore Climate change
  • U.S. average temperature has increased by 1.3°F to 1.9°F since record keeping began in

1895; most of this increase has occurred since about 1970. The most recent decade was the nation’s warmest on record.

  • Australia's annual-average daily maximum temperatures have increased by 0.8°C and the
  • vernight minimum by more than 1.1°C. Since the 1950s, each decade has been warmer

than the one before.

  • Average temperatures around the world have risen since the late 1870s, when scientists

began tracking them. The seven warmest years of the 20th century occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. This warming trend coincides with the boom of globalisation.

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  • The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.1 degrees Celsius (2.0 degrees

Fahrenheit) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere

  • Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the

year — from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record for those respective months.

  • Global sea level rose around 20cm (8 inches) in the last century. The rate in the last two

decades, however, is nearly double that of the last century

  • Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has

increased by about 30 percent.

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  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, concluded there's a more

than 95 percent probability that human activities over the past 50 years have warmed our planet.

  • While Climate change may be natural, the development and application of

Globalisation has significant accelerated the impacts of Global warming

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Tracing Climate change and Globalisation

No set definition or time period for the commencement of Globalisation

  • 1961 (First appearance in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary)
  • 1990’s (buzzword)
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Other Impacts

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Bonn, Germany

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Fiji

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UN Climate Change Conference - November 2017

Known as COP23 Heads of State and Government, Ministers, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres will be attending Bonn-Fiji Commitment pushes efforts to advance sustainable urban development November 6-17 in Bonn, Germany Presided over by the Government of Fiji The US Climate Action Center will participate, but not the US Government

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Food

  • 1/4 of all global emissions comes

from feeding the world population

  • Producing beef requires 28 times

more land, 6 times more fertilizer and 11 times more water than producing pork or chicken.

  • Producing beef releases 5 times

more greenhouse gases than a an equivalent amount of poultry

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What Will Happen to the World?

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A. The world will end.

  • B. Everything will be under water and we live in a landless world.
  • C. Nothing will happen, we will be fine.
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The RIGHT Answer is...

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Nobody Knows.

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Predictions of Impact on Earth

  • Surface Temperature
  • Air Quality
  • Precipitation
  • Sea Level
  • Ocean
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Surface Temperature

  • Follows the trend
  • Increase of 1-6 degrees Celsius
  • Warm months get warmer
  • Growing season becomes longer
  • Bad for some animals
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Temperature Impact

  • Kills most cold blooded animals
  • Removes cold habitats
  • Coral reefs die out, disrupts foundation of Oceans’ habitats
  • Melts ice caps, no more polar bears
  • Floods world
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Air

  • CO2 levels double, possibly triple
  • Ozone layer doesn’t exist
  • Overwhelming Greenhouse gas exposure
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Air Impact

  • Green house gases flow with no ozone layer thus heating the world to non livable

heights

  • Ocean attempts to rid atmosphere of CO2 and other gases
  • Ocean becomes acidic
  • Rain is acid rain
  • Aquatic animals are extinct
  • Water is undrinkable
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Precipitation

  • Increase of rainfall by 3-5 percent
  • Not a big change
  • Near normal ranges of rain
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Precipitation Impact

  • Rainfall is predicted to slightly increase
  • More rain dilutes the Ocean and reduces the salt levels which will severely hurt

the aquatic life there

  • Also, as previously stated, the quality of rain could have big impacts with acid rain

killing land and aquatic animals that rely on it as their primary drinking source

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Sea Level

  • Drastic Increase
  • Nearly 500 meters
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Sea Level Impact

  • Ruins beach-front homes
  • Many states would be completely emerged in water
  • States like California, which is 85 meters below sea level, will be erased
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Ocean

  • Increased levels of acid in oceans
  • No coral reefs
  • Increased temperatures and rainfall thus causing low salt levels
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Ocean Impact

  • No aquatic life
  • Humans lose a vital food source
  • Ocean becomes a vacant acidic pool
  • Can’t rid Earth of CO2 emissions thus allowing air qualities to worsen and

become unlivable and cause more acid rain

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What Will the World Look Like?

  • Under water
  • Acidic Oceans
  • Unbreathable air
  • No aquatic life
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Solutions?

  • Fix the problem at hand and reduce climate change?
  • Move to the moon?
  • Prepare to live under water?
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Last Question! What do you Think Will Happen?

A. The world will end.

  • B. Everything will be under water and we live in a landless world.
  • C. Nothing will happen, we will be fine.
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Thank You