Saturday, November 12, 2011

Climate Change

Impact on Home & School Community 


  1. "The actions of individual Canadians account for about 28% of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions." If you're concerned about the quality of life, you will want to do what you can to reduce the impact of climate change which can affect your health, the economy and our environment. Every time you turn on a light, turn on the car, start up the computer, or do anything that uses energy you are responsible for producing greenhouse gases. But if you're part of the problem, you can also be part of the solution. At home, on the road and at work, there are simple things that all Canadians can do to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and save energy and money in the process!Getting started is easier than you think. It's as simple as making a personal commitment to use energy and resources more efficiently in your daily life to reduce your emissions.
  2. Vernard Williams is about to drop some knowledge on the kids of Food and Finance High School in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. He's not facing the easiest audience. It's a Friday afternoon in early October, the school year is still settling in, and the teenagers filing into the auditorium look less than engaged. Making things even less promising is the subject matter of today's assembly: climate change. Williams is a senior educator for the Alliance for Climate Education (ACE), a nonprofit based in Oakland, Calif., that sends speakers — armed with an original video produced by ACE — to schools to talk a little basic science. They're prepared for an uphill struggle. "We do this in a way you've never seen it," says Williams, a Brooklyn native and lawyer. "We know you have to engage them from the beginning."
  3. "Climate change is currently at the centre of our daily life, as its impacts and consequences are being experienced in all regions of the world. "But as we know climate change is not a natural phenomenon; climate has natural variability over time, but when we talk about climate change it refers to the alterations in the atmosphere that are over and above natural climate variations, and that are result of human activity.This means that the situation can be changed if human beings transform their ways of living to be more sustainable and friendly to the environment.
  4. Climate change is a long-term shift in atmospheric conditions occurring worldwide. For thousands of years, the Earth's climate has remained relatively stable. Temperatures, rainfall, the length of the seasons, and other environmental factors have sustained humans, animals, and plants. This stability has existed thanks, in part, to the greenhouse effect.
  5. Some climate change issues can be addressed at the local level, through work with your tribal community. For example, you may want to work with tribal schools or have an information booth at community events. Numerous outreach and educational resources about climate change are available online and can be adapted for your target audience. This page provides a list of resources available and some websites to help children learn about climate change. Human beings are exposed to climate change through changing weather patterns (for example, more intense and frequent extreme events) and indirectly through changes in water, air, food quality and quantity, ecosystems, agriculture, and economy. At this early stage the effects are small but are projected to progressively increase in all countries and regions.
  6. Besides the weather patterns getting very unpredictable, and in some cases extremely haphazzard, there is the issue of the melting ice.  This ice melting is hazzardous to us in many ways -To name just a few:  There are many species of the planet that may very likely become extinct because they are losing their habitat.Loss of any species to the planet is, or should be, a great concern to us all.  Some of these species are hunted for food by people, and losing them is a loss of a food source in an area where food sources are very scarce.  These same species are also hunted for their hides to keep people warm in climates that are extremely cold.Here some may suggest the warming climate could be good for these people, so they are not so cold.  This is such an outrageous thought and is why these kinds of articles are so important to better educate the people of our world.  Because, again I point out "cause and affect".  Nothing changes without a cause and affect.Affect:  Now we discuss the rise of the worlds sea level.  There are many communities that are actually below the worlds sea level, and its rising can cause horrible tragedies around the world.
  7. Consider your home and the environment in which it is situated. The very fact that you live in one place, something that was quite uncommon before the discovery of stored energy sources like fossil fuels, speaks to how your life is facilitated by these unique energy sources.Even your basic needs are dependent on fossil fuels. Your water, food, and fuel for heating and cooking likely travel hundreds if not thousands of miles to your home.This pattern couldn’t be sustained if humans didn’t have the ability to exploit dense energy sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas. However, their discovery transformed the face of the earth and the nature of humans.The effects on earth are dangerous. In the last 150 years, the human population has grown by more than five times and the average person uses more energy than ever. This energy comes largely from fossil fuels, the use of which is a direct and important cause of global warming.
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