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Ppt 16 Climate Change

The document discusses climate change, highlighting its causes, effects, and the role of human activities in exacerbating the issue. It emphasizes that climate change poses significant risks to society, including impacts on water, food, health, and rising sea levels. The document concludes that climate change is a pressing global issue requiring urgent attention and action.

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Ppt 16 Climate Change

The document discusses climate change, highlighting its causes, effects, and the role of human activities in exacerbating the issue. It emphasizes that climate change poses significant risks to society, including impacts on water, food, health, and rising sea levels. The document concludes that climate change is a pressing global issue requiring urgent attention and action.

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CLIMATE

CHANGE
Lesson objecives:
At the end of this lesson , the students
should be able to:
• Identify the causes of climate
change;
• Understand the effects of climate
change in the society;
• Illustrate how the community helps
in mitigating the hazards caused by
climate change.
The intergovernmental panel on climate change
{IPCC), A UNITED Nations body that evaluates
climate change science, released its report on global
climate change. The report’s important conclusions
were the following world’s climate has changed
significantly over the past century; the significant
change has human influence; using climate models and
if the trend continues, the global mean surface
temperature will increase between 1◦c and 3.5◦c by
2100
WHY SHOULD A FEW
DEGREES OF WARMING BE
WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE? ACAUSE OF A CONCERN?

Climate change refers to According to


experts, global climate
the statistically significant change could have a greater
changes I climate for potential to change life in
continuous period of time. our planet than anything
else except a nuclear war.
These changes will also lead
to a number of potentially
serious consequences.
CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
1.NATURAL RESOURCES
a)VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS
b)ORBITAL CHANGE
a)CARBON DIOXIDE THEORY
2. HUMAN ACTIVITIES
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS
• It is the one of the natural resources of climate change. When
volcano erupt, it emits different natural aerosols like carbon dioxide,
sulfur dioxides , salt crystals, volcanic ashes or dust, and even
microorganism like bacteria and viruses. This can cause a cooling
effect to the lithosphere and it can block a percentage of solar
radiation, and it can last for one to two yeas.
• Volcanoes located near the equator are more likely to cause global
cooling because of the wind pattern.
• Volcanoes located near to north or south poles are likely to cause
cooling because of pole wind pattern. (the sulfurous aerosols are
confined in pole area.)
Several recorded major
volcanic eruption
• Mount Tambora of indonesia erupted in 1816. it was
considered as the largest known eruption in human
history.
• Mount Krakatao of Indonesia in 1883
• Mount Pinatubo of the Philiippines in 199 contributed
too the cold years of planet earth
Orbital Changes
Earths orbit can also cause Climate Change.
This was proposed by the Milankovitch
Theory.
The Milankovitch theory states “that as the
earth travels through space around the Sun,
cyclical variations in three elements of Earth-
Sun geometry combine to produce variations in
the amount of solar energy that reaches
Earth(Academic Emporia. 2007).
The Carbon Dioxide Theory
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is added when
power and heat are produced by
burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels.
Carbon Dioxide is transparent to
sunshine but not invisible to infrared
(heat) radiation leaving the ground. It
absorb part of the infrared radiation
and returns it to the ground keeping
the air near the surface warmer than it
would be if the carbon dioxide did not
act like the blanket. Doubling the
carbon dioxide rises the temperature to
2°C to 3°C.
Human Activities
Human activities contribute
to climate change. The largest
known contribution comes from
burning of fossil fuels, which
releases carbon dioxide gas to the
atmosphere. Greenhouse gases and
aerosols affect the climate by
altering incoming solar radiation
and outgoing infrared(thermal)
radiation that are part of Earths
energy balance. The human impact
on climate during this era greatly
exceeds that due to known changes
in natural processes such as solar
changes and volcanic eruptions.
Effects of Climate Change on Society
Climate change could cause severe affects to all life
forms around our planet. It direct affects the basic
elements of peoples lives like water, food, health,
use of land and the environment. Climate change
may increase the worldwide deaths due to
malnutrition and heat stress. Vector bone diseases
such as malaria can become more widespread if
effect control measures are not in place. Also the
rising sea levels may affect all the living things at the
coastal areas.
Summary
Climate Change is a
worldwide issue that we have to face.
Climate change is referred
statistically significant climate
variation persisting for an extended
period of time. The continues
climate change could bring drastic
effects to living and non living forms
on Earth.
Climate change is brought
by several factors like natural
processes and persistent human
activities. Global warming is one of
the major effects of climate change.
It threatens all life form on Earth.

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