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    Climate Change

    What is Climate Change?


    • It is caused by the ‘greenhouse effect’. This happens due to the interaction between energy from the sun, the Earth’s surface,
    and ‘greenhouse gases’ in the atmosphere.
    Is climate change really happening,
    and if so, what is causing it?

    • The climate has always changed naturally in the past, but


    those have often been in response to predictable
    changes in the Earth’s orbit around the sun, and those
    changes have always been at a predictable pace. The
    change we are seeing now is unexpected and much
    quicker, so we know that the cause isn’t natural.

    • Past natural changes in the Earth’s climate have often


    also been due to the release of greenhouse gases like
    carbon dioxide (CO2). Nowadays, human activities in
    sectors like transport and generating electricity are
    releasing these gases. In other words, humans are doing
    what we know from history has caused past changes in
    the Earth’s climate. In fact, CO2 from human activity is
    increasing more than 250 times faster than it did from
    natural sources after the last Ice Age.
    Is climate change really happening, and if so, what is causing it?

     We can see here, for example, that


    world temperature mirrors the
    amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

     We can also see that solar activity


    has been steady over this period,
    so we know that this isn’t causing
    the temperature rise.
    The impacts of climate change

    Temperature rises – globally, More extreme weather – warmer


    the five warmest years on air can hold more water, so climate
    record have all been since change is expected to lead to more
    2015. All of the UK's ten heavy rain in the UK and the rest of
    warmest years on record the world. It will also lead to more
    have been since 2002. global heatwaves and droughts.

    Sea-level rise – when our


    planet warms up, water in Ocean acidity – the
    the ocean expands. Together oceans absorb much of
    with water running into the carbon dioxide that
    oceans from melting ice and human activities release.
    glaciers, this means that sea This makes them turn
    levels are increasing. This more acidic, which
    threatens coastal and island threatens marine life.
    communities.
    Greenhouse gas emissions
    • Each year the Scottish Government collects data on
    greenhouse gas emissions by sector. The list of emissions is
    included in the Council’s Climate Change Strategy. The sectors
    with the highest emissions, and therefore those where we
    need to take urgent action are:

    1) Transport - 31% of emissions;


    2) Industry, including energy and waste – 22% of emissions;
    3) Business – 20% of emissions;
    4) Residential - 15% of emissions;
    5) Agriculture, forestry, and related land use/land use change –
    5% of emissions.

    • Reducing emissions across all these sectors will present


    significant challenges if the Council is to meet its ambitions.
    It will require organizational and personal behavioral change
    for all of us to make decisions and choices that reduce our
    carbon footprint.
    Your own response to climate change – at
    school & and home
     Using the Council’s fleet of electric vehicles will reduce emissions from
    business travel.

     Don’t leave equipment on stand-by – PC monitors left on stand-by still


    use around 15 to 20% of the electricity they use normally.

     You can recycle your food waste – it is used to generate green energy at
    the Miller Hill Digester.
    THANK YOU
    Sources: Wikipedia
    Super summary
    NASA

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