Concept, Causes, Effects and Solutions

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Concept, Causes, Effects and Solutions
Climate Change

• By
• Nadia, Zeina, Nadin, Nora, and Ala

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What is Climate??

• Climate The average weather (usually taken over
  a 30-year time period) for a particular region
  and time period. It is not the same as weather,
  it is the average pattern of weather for a
  particular region. Weather describes the
  short-term state of the atmosphere.
• Climatic elements include precipitation,
  temperature, humidity, sunshine, wind velocity,
  phenomena such as fog, frost, and hail storms,
  and other measures of the weather.

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Global Warming

• Global Warming refers to an average increase in
  the Earth's temperature, which in turn causes
  changes in climate.
• A warmer Earth may lead to changes in rainfall
  patterns, a rise in sea level, and a wide range
  of impacts on plants, wildlife, and humans. When
  scientists talk about the issue of climate
  change, their concern is the global warming
  caused by human activities.

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Greenhouse

• Most greenhouses look like a small glass house.
• Greenhouses are used to grow plants, especially
  in the winter.
• Greenhouses work by trapping heat from the sun.
  The glass panels of the greenhouse let in light
  but keep heat from escaping. This causes the
  greenhouse to heat up, and keeps the plants warm
  enough to live in the winter.

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Greenhouse Effect

• Greenhouse Effect The effect produced as
  green-house gases allow incoming solar radiation
  to pass through the Earth's atmosphere, but
  prevent most of the outgoing infrared radiation
  from the surface and lower atmosphere from
  escaping into outer space. This process occurs
  naturally and has kept the Earth's temperature
  about 60 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it would
  otherwise be. Current life on Earth could not be
  sustained without the natural greenhouse effect.

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Greenhouse Gazes

• Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere behave much
  like the glass panes in a greenhouse.
• Sunlight enters the Earth's atmosphere, passing
  through the blanket of greenhouse gases. As it
  reaches the Earth's surface.
• Once absorbed, this energy is sent back into the
  atmosphere. Some of the energy passes back into
  space, but much of it remains trapped in the
  atmosphere by the greenhouse gases, causing our
  world to heat up.
• Greenhouse gases include water vapor, carbon
  dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide
  (N2O), halogenated fluorocarbons (HCFCs) , ozone
  (O3), per fluorinated carbons (PFCs), and hydro
  fluorocarbons (HFCs).

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Who Causes the Climate Change!! ?

• We do!!!
• We send greenhouse gazes to the atmosphere.
• Industrial practices cars, planes, factories,
  electricity, and solid trash.
• Environmental practices deforestation, and
  pollution.

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What If We Continue!!

• Human Health will be affected directly and
  indirectly.
• Food Supply will be affected.
• Wild Life will be affected.
• Sea Level will rise.
• Ecological Systems will be affected.
• Weather Changes.

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Human Health

• Direct Effect is caused by warm temperatures and
  high humidity.
• Untreated, heat stress can be a very serious
  medical problem.
• More hot days increases the possibility of heat
  related health problems.
• Nasty diseases like Malaria, will spread.
• Ecological disturbances, pollution, changes in
  food and water supplies, and coastal flooding are
  all examples of possible impacts that might
  affect human health indirectly.

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Food Supply

• Global Warming may make the Earth warmer in cold
  places. People living in these places may have a
  chance to grow crops in new areas (North).
• But climate change also might bring droughts to
  other places where we grow crops. In some parts
  of the world, people may not have enough to eat
  because they cannot grow the food that they need.

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Ecological System

• Climate change may alter the world's habitats and
  ecosystems.
• Life depends on a delicate balance of rainfall,
  temperature, and soil type.
• Global Warming could upset this balance and
  seriously endanger many living things.
• Climate Change used to occur slowly, allowing
  plants and animals to adapt to the new
  environment or move somewhere else. However, if
  future climate changes occur as rapidly as some
  scientists predict, plants and animals may not be
  able to react quickly enough to survive.

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Sea Level

• The ice of the poles is melting. Some of it is
  melting fast. The Arctic sea ice gets less every
  year and the great frozen continent of Antarctica
  is losing ice too. Other seas, like the North
  Sea, are warming too. This means that fish which
  need colder waters have to swim north and this
  can have bad effects of both fishing and
  seabirds.
• All the ice and glaciers that melt will start to
  fill up the oceans and make them overflow on land
  (floods), and the water itself will take up more
  space simply because it is warmer.
• Some of the best land for growing food is the
  most low-lying, that means it will be flooded
  first, so it will affect soil where salt is
  harmful.
• Loads of people will go hungry and many more will
  have nowhere to live.

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Wheather Changes

• As the earth is warming up, the weather is going
  to get more violent and unpredictable.
• Hurricanes and storms, for example, will become
  more powerful.

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Is It Too Late to Save Our Planet?!

• No it is not.
• We can
• Plant Trees.
• Recycle.
• Walk, ride bikes instead of cars and buses.
• Save electricity and other sorts of energy.
• Read and Spread Awareness of Climate Change among
  people.
• Use cars that save energy.
• Find safe energy sources like the solar energy,
  to replace the fuel.
• Use Energy Star machines those machines save
  energy.

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Palestine
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In Palestine

• We here in Palestine like others around the world
  participate in the climate change.

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Climate Change Causes

• Industry
• Industrial practices dont have great effect in
  this field since we dont have very improved and
  enhanced industries.
• Air pollution sources like cars, output of modest
  factories.
• Solid Trash
• Environmental Practices
• Deforestation cutting trees by people and most
  by occupation.

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What We have Done

• As a group of students who care about this issue,
  with the help of the RI-SOL OSM at our school we
  searched this topic.
• We organized a planting day, to plant trees and
  flowers in our school garden and in the streets
  around it.
• We organized an Art Workshop in our school to
  enlighten students about this topic, and to let
  them participate in UNEP painting competition
  which is about the Climate Change

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Art Workshop
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Planting Day
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Interview

• We interviewed Ms. Yara Asad, the P.R director
  at BerZiet Pharmaceutical Company BPC in
  Ramallah.
• BPC offered more than 10000 free tree to be
  planted all over Palestine in Green Palestine
  Campaign.
• They are interested in environment to compensate
  for pollution caused by companies and factories.
• They like our activities and offered us free
  trees for our planting day.
• They want to collaborate with us
• in future work concerns the
• environment.

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What we will do

• We will apply what we have learnt about the
  Climate Change in our daily lives.
• We will participate in enlightenment meetings and
  campaigns to spread awareness among people about
  this topic.
• Participate in presentation project organized by
  BPC about Trees and Environment