Transcript What makes climate change?

Climate Changes
The course has the following objectives:
understanding the phenomenon from the
point of view of Physics
making the young generation aware of the
new climate changes
identifying the changes that have occurred in
the students’ own country by giving clear
examples
suggesting measures that should be taken, in
each country, in order to stop or to diminish
this phenomenon
The lessons will be as follows:
 Lesson
I: General presentation of the
phenomenon. Causes.
 Lesson II: The effects: the greenhouse
effect and its damage, air pollution and
its effects on animals, birds and human
beings, environmental changes in each
country and on Earth as a whole, ocean
warming.
Lesson III: Ways of reducing or even stopping
this phenomenon: solar heating systems, wind
or water energy, etc.
 Lesson IV :Measures to make people aware of
these effects: students from each school will
have to realize a questionnaire about climate
changes and a statistics concerning the
knowledge of this phenomenon and the
measures taken within households, schools,
cities and countries to stop it.
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What makes climate
change?
 Changes in the sun
 Changes in the earth's orbit
 Changes in the clouds
 Changes in ice sheets
 Changes in the gases in the atmosphere
(Greenhouse effect)
Human-Forced Climate Change
 Climate changes can be natural or human
caused
Humans can
affect the
climate by
changing the
gases in the
atmosphere.
(greenhouse
effect).
The Greenhouse Effect
 Romania, like other countries
are often
confronting nowadays with floods,
tornados and even with the desertification
process. The climate changes caused by
excessive pollution are already affecting
the citizens’ way of life
Effects of Climate Change
 Greater
air pollution
 Severe and frequent extreme weather
events such as storms, floods, droughts,
tornadoes, heat waves
 Increase in diseases transmitted by
mosquitoes, ticks or rodents because of
changes in precipitation and temperature
 Fresh water sources threatened with
rapidly shrinking glaciers and drought
 Intense
exposure to sun’s ultraviolet rays
due to thinning ozone layer leading to
more skin cancer and impaired vision
 Inadequate food production due to
environmental changes and pollutants
 Changes in population distribution
Heat Absorption by Ice Masses
Arctic ice, Antarctic ice
 Mountain glaciers
• Mt. Kilimanjaro glacier will disappear
within 20 years
• Chacaltaya glacier, Andes Mountains, will
disappear in 7-8 years (water supply for La
Paz, Bolivia)
• Italian Alps will lose its permanent ice in
20-30 years
• Glacier National Park is losing ice at an
accelerating rate
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How will climate change affect
people?
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Everywhere:
Sea-level rise
Ecosystem
change
• effect on species
• effect on farming
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Melting of polar
ice
• effect on
shipping
• effect on wildlife
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Coral death
How will climate change affect
people?
Everywhere:
 Increase in
intensity of
hurricanes
 Increase in
droughts in some
places
 Increase in intense
rain in some places
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How will climate change affect
people?
 Everywhere:
 How
will
humans react
 Surprise
changes
The Challenge: Sustainable
Energy
The Challenge: Food Security
The final products of the
course will be:
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realizing a questionnaire among the
students from each school and a statistics
concerning the knowledge about this
phenomenon;
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making a poster about climate changes that
will be posted in each school;
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making a film about climate changes in the
students’ own country or city.
GOOD WRITING SKILLS
WHY A COURSE ON WRITING SKILLS?
 We
have chosen this
course as our students as
well as all of us are
writers in one way or
another: writers of letters
, memos, reports, daily
diaries or greetings on
Christmas cards and so
on .
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By attending this course you will be able to
write a better letter, avoid those grammar
gremlins and make written English your most
valuable tool at work, school or home. You
may also find how to get the response you
want, how to use clear, cliché-free ways to
convey sympathy or express what you really
feel without falling into the common writing
traps.
OBJECTIVES
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to make students aware of
the difference between
speech and writing;
to observe examples of good
and also bad writing;
to get students familiar with
the structure of different
pieces of writing ( a CV, a
letter of application etc);
to enable students to create
their own effective pieces of
writing.
STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE
 LESSON 1. How
To Write Clearly and What
Language You Should Avoid;
 LESSON 2. A Few Refreshing Things In
Grammar and Punctuation;
 LESSON 3. How To Create the Perfect CV;
 LESSON 4. Say What You Mean, Get What
You Want; Creating Persuasive Pieces of
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Writing.
FINAL PRODUCTS
 Students
will have to write
their own European CV
 They will have to exchange
E-mails on certain topics
applying the newly learned
rules and notions
In Romania most investors and business men are
foreigners, they had to present their CVs and job
applications in English and according to the new
European requirements. Therefore, we consider that
students might need some extra information and
practice on this topic as during the classes at school it is
difficult to cover all aspects and to study enough
examples.
We hope you will find this course as useful as we do. Of
course, suggestions and comments will be more than
welcome. I hope you will enjoy it. Good luck!