Turn Down The Heat: Why A 4°C Warmer World Must Be Avoided

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Mohammed Rabbi

Turn Down The Heat: Why A 4°C
Warmer World Must Be Avoided
Final Project

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 This digital presentation is created to increase the awareness for climate
change and why a 40 C warmer world would be devastating to the life on
earth, as we know it now.
 The visual images and texts in the presentation are mainly targeted for general
audiences online.
 As Agriculture is particularly vulnerable to climate change among others, this
sector is selected for the presentation.
 Recent global surges in food prices highlights the importance of adaptations of
agricultural policies.
 Its time to challenge climate change by all of us at local – national – and
international level.
 This presentation is composed of selected images and posters, from various
online sources.

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Global Warming
(Source: http://topics.time.com/global-warming/pictures/)

How will climate change affect storms like Sandy, seen in a satellite image?

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American Smokestacks
(Source: http://ShutterStock.com/)

Not helping the global-warming situation…

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Global Warming Awareness
Poster: Smoky Skies

(Image Credit: Miteshkothari - http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/global-warming-alert-posters/)

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Greenland Ice Sheet

This melt water lake was created by warm summer temperatures on the
surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Melt-water lubricates the glacier bed
and makes the ice flow faster into the sea. Global warming has caused
melting to occur dozens of miles further inland than 20 years ago.

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Global Warming Image
(Source: http://topics.time.com/global-warming/pictures)

Some climate experts say that without breakthrough technologies and as yet
unimagined solutions, we cannot stem the progress of the climate change.

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Climate Change Posters
(Source: http://webneel.com/webneel/blog/)

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Climate Change Images
(Source: http://google.com )

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Global Warming Awareness
Poster: Polar Bears In The Desert
(Image Credit: Luis Beltrán- http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/global-warming-alert-posters/)

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Global Warming Awareness Poster:
Don’t Wait Until The Last Minute
(Image Credit: Francisco Rodriguez - http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/global-warming-alert-posters/)

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How Is The World Is Changing?
Various photos and examples of the effect of
Global Warming around the world.

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Climate Change: Global Vulnerability
(Source: http://google.com)

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Climate Change: Vulnerable Cities

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How The World Is Changing
(Source: http://topics.time.com/global-warming/pictures)

NEEM researchers measure climate change using air captured in ancient ice.

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(Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/05)
(Perito Moreno Glacier pictured)

Melting Blitz In South America

High in the Peruvian Andes, parts of the world's largest tropical ice sheet have
melted at an unbelievable pace. Scientists found that significant portions of
the Quelccaya Ice Cap that took over 1,600 years to form have melted in
only 25 years.

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(Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/)

Argentina's
Upsala Glacier
was once the
biggest in South
America, but it is
now
disappearing at
a rate of 200
meters per year.

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Glacial Change:
Rhone glacier in
Valais, Switzerland
(Gary Braash)
In 2001, the glacier
had shrunk by
some 2.5km, and
its 'snout' had
shifted about 450
meters higher up.

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Rising Tides
Cape Hatteras in
North Carolina in
the USA,
pictured in 1999
and 2004.

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Vanishing
islands
Tuvalu in the
Pacific.

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No Snow:
Mount Hood
in Oregon at
the same
time in late
summer in
1985 and
2002.

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More Pests:
Damage
to White
Spruce
trees in
Alaska
caused by
the pests.

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How The World Is
Changing:

Tarawa atoll, Kiribati: Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire
Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual
backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji.

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How The World Is
Changing:

Great Barrier Reef: "Where has all the color gone?"
Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have undergone an aesthetic decline reflecting
the dangers from global warming that the vast, fragile ecosystem faces.

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How The World Is
Changing:

The IPCC climate report says scientists are 95% certain that humans are the
"dominant cause" of global warming, adding that a 'pause in warming over
the past 15 years is too short to reflect long-term trends’.

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How The World Is
Changing:

A Mighty Wind:
The dramatic and rapid
loss of sea ice in recent
years has
consequences beyond
the Arctic. Scientists
have found the melting
shifts the position of the
Jet Stream, bringing
cold Arctic air further
south and increasing
the odds of intense
snow storms and
extreme spring
weather.

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How The World Is
Changing:

(TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)

An International Tragedy:
Research by British
government found that
climate change may
have contributed to a
famine in East Africa that
killed between 50,000
and 100,000 people in
2010 and 2011. At least
24 percent of the cause
of a lack of major rains in
2011 can be attributed to
man-made greenhouse
gases, Met Office
modeling showed.

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How The World Is
Changing:


Experts speculate that warming oceans may have played a part in a strain of
herpes that has killed Pacific oysters in Europe in recent years..

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How Global Warming Is
Changing Our Everyday Lives
Various photos and examples of the effect of
Global Warming during our everyday lives and
routines.

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Climate Change Chart

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Climate Change:
Effects on Human Health

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How Our Lives Are Changing:

Worsening Allergies:

The spring 2013 allergy
season could be one of
the worst ever, thanks to
climate change. Experts
say that increased
precipitation, along with
an early spring, lateending fall and higher
levels of atmospheric
carbon dioxide may
bring more pollen from
plants and increased
mold and fungal growth.

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Fish catches could be hurt by climate change.

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Wine To Go?
Along with other agricultural
impacts, climate change
may have a dramatic effect
on the world's most famous
winemaking regions in
coming decades. Areas
suitable for grape cultivation
may shrink, and temperature
changes may impact the
signature taste of wines from
certain regions.

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A Cold Cup Of Coffee:
Climate change may
dramatically shrink the
area suitable for coffee
cultivation by the end of
the century and cause the
extinction of Arabica
coffee plants in the wild.
Starbucks has already
declared that "Addressing
climate change is a
priority."

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Sour Apples:

Apples produced in one
Himalayan state of India
are already losing their
taste and even turning
sour, experts say.
Increased rainfall and
erratic weather in the
region mean less than
ideal conditions for
famously-sweet
Kashmiri apples.

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Less Time On The Chair Lift:
Climate change means
warmer winters in northern
latitudes and a shorter ski
season. By 2039, more than
half of the Northeast's ski
resorts will not be able to
maintain a 100-day
season, according to the
New York Times. Ski areas
will be less likely to receive
regular snowfall, and
warmer daily low
temperatures mean fewer
opportunities for
snowmaking.

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Impacts of Climate
Change on Agriculture
Mitigation and Adaption

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Impacts of Climate Change on
Agriculture:

(Ref: OECD (2009), "Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation and Options for the
OECD“)

 Agriculture is particularly
vulnerable to climate change.

 IPCC projections to 2050 suggest
both an increase in global mean
temperatures and increased
weather variability, with
implications for the agricultural
production worldwide.
 While some regions of the world
may benefit from improved
conditions, the overall effect of
climate change is nonetheless
expected to be negative for
global agricultural production if
no action is taken.

Source: (https://adsofthe world.com/)

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Agriculture:

OECD“)

 As agricultural production increases, resource constraints, particularly water,
will become tighter.

 Agriculture globally accounts for about 70% of the world’s freshwater
withdrawals.
 Climate change is expected to alter the seasonal timing of rainfall and snow
pack melt and result in a higher incidence and severity of floods and
droughts.

 Agriculture can both contribute to mitigation and sequestration of carbon
emissions.

 Mitigation:

 Significant mitigation in Agriculture can be achieved through:
 improved cropland and grazing land management, restoration of
degraded lands, and land use change (e.g. agro-forestry).

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Agriculture:

OECD“)

 Adaptation:

 This may range from:
 Altering farm management practices to adoption of new varieties,
crops, and animal breeds more appropriate to future climate
conditions.
 Both rain-fed and irrigated agriculture will need to be managed
more sustainably to reduce resulting production risks.

 Policy Response:

 Government policy can play an important role in maintaining a viable
agriculture in the face of climate change.
 Mitigation and adaptation approaches will need to be
strengthened.
 These will be more effective if they are embedded in longer-term
strategies linked to agricultural policy reform, risk management, research
and development, and market-based approaches.
 Examples include: crop and disaster insurance, research into crop
varieties better adapted to changing climatic conditions, and incentives
for more efficient use of water.

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Agriculture:
(Source: www.google.com)

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So What Are We Doing?
Examples of what we are doing around the globe to
stop the clocks against Global Warming.

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“Rally Against Global Warming”
(http://topics.time.com/global-warming/pictures/)

Demonstrators take part in the protest against climate change in the center of
Copenhagen.

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Protesters rally outside the Conference of the Parties of the U.N. Climate
Change venue in Durban, South Africa, on Nov. 28, 2011.

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Students and Washington residents concerned about global warming
gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Saturday, April 14, 2007, to
urge Congress to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 80% by 2050

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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (left) speaks at the United
Nations during a High Level event on Climate Change.

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Our Earth….
Our Future.
(Source: https://www.google.com/)

Turn Down The Heat: Why A 4°C Warmer World Must Be Avoided

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