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Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Climate Change is happening!
Article written by GEORGIA HAKES
What is climate change? According to Wikipedia, climate change is any significant long term change in the pattern of the average weather of a region (or the earth as a whole) over a significant amount of time.
How is climate change effecting the planet?
Climate change has been been effecting the planet for a while now. For example, the Earth’s average temperature increased by 2 degrees fahrenheit in the 20th century. Also, scientists are convinced that the temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come which is largely due to us using greenhouse gases. These greenhouse gases gets let out into the Earth’s atmosphere acting as a blanket, trapping in heat and increasing the Earth’s temperature. Furthermore, The temperature of the Earth is predicted to rise by 2.5 to 10 degrees fahrenheit over the next century. This increase in temperature is causing ice caps to melt which is making sea levels rise and destoying animal habitats, meaning some animals are becoming endangered. It is said that the global sea level has
increased by 8 inches since reliable record keeping began in 1880 and it’s predicted that it will rise another 1 to 4 feet by 2100. In the next several dacade, this increase in temperature and sea level will lead to storm surges and high tides which will futher increase flooding in furture regions.
What is being done about the climate crisis? Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg is a 17 year old activist from sweden who is very passionate about the climate and stopping climate change. Her father is Svante Thunberg, a descendent of Svante Arrhenius, a scientist who came up with a model of the greenhouse effect. He was
awarded the Nobel Prize for the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903. At age 15 she won a climate change essay competition a local newspaper. Three months later she started protesting in front of the Swedish parliament building and began missing lessons reguarly to go on strike every friday holding a sign saying ‘School Strike for Climate‘ whilst urging students to join her. By December 2018, she had over 20,000 students over the world joining her in countries including Australia, the UK, Belguim, the US and Japan.
“I felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the ecological crisis.” - Greta Thunberg
to the BBC (2018)
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Since then she took the whole of 2019 off school to continue campaigning and spreading the message. Greta states that big governments and buisnesses around the world are not moving quickly enough to cut carbon emmissions. she wants banks, fims and governments to stop investing and support fossil fuels, such as oil, coal and gas. She states that ‘instead, they should invest their money in existing sustainable technologies, research and in restoring nature‘.
weeks six, thousands of them peacefully went to London to block five major bridges across the Thames. They also planted trees in the middle of Parliament Square, and dug out a hole and proceeded to bury a coffin which they say is ‘representing our future.‘
“How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” - Greta Thunberg
To help with the climate crise we could try: - Switching to green power this will reduce the amount of fossil fuels being used so the amount of greenhouse gases being let out in the atmosphere will decrease. - Optimising our diet - In the EU, the meat and dairy production are resonsible for 12-17% of the overall green house gas emissions, so cutting down on meat and dairy will help reduce that. - Using transport that doesn’t let out much CO2 (e.g. bike) - Planting more trees and plants - trees and palnts absorb CO2 for photosynthesis to release oxygen so planting more trees would mean they would absorb CO2.
adressing the UN (2019)
Extinction Rebellion According to their website they are ‘an international movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience in an attempt to halt mass extinction and minimise the risk of social collapse.‘ What do they do? They use ‘rebellious’ acts to help spead awareness of climate change. For example, In 2018, they assembled on Parliament Square and announced a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government. 1,500 people participated in this ‘peaceful civil disobedience’. For the next few
“Our world is in crisis. Life itself is under threat.” - Extinction Rebellion (2019)
What can we do personally to help with the climate crisis?
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Some random facts about climate change:
- The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere, as of 2018, is the highest it has been in 3 million years. - Data from NASA show that global global averages in 2016 were 1.78 degrees F (0.99 degrees C) warmer than the mid20th century average. Seventeen of the 18 warmest years have occurred since 2000. - 11% of global of all global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans are caused by deforestation. - In the Amazon, 1% of tree species reduce 50% of the region’s carbon. - 11% of the world’s population is currently being impacted due to droughts, floods, heat waves, extreme weather events and sea levels rising.
scan to go to the met office website for more information on climate change