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unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that
science and justice demand.
Their mission is to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the
climate crisis— to create a new sense of urgency and of possibility for
our planet. Please visit their website for further information.
OUR
CHANGING
CLIMATE
GLACIERS
ARE
MELTING
MUIR & RIGGS GLACIER 1941
MUIR & RIGGS GLACIER 2004
PEDERSEN GLACIER, AK 1920
PEDERSEN GLACIER, AK 2005
OCEANS
ARE
ACIDIFYING
Coral reefs are bleaching
SEA LEVELS ARE RISING
Sea Level Change (cm)
Three Year Average
Satellite Altimetry
Year
threatens the survival of
SMALL ISLANDS
“
Two degrees (450ppm) is really not a
safe level for small island states. For
many of them it would be like a death
sentence in the long run.
- Leon Charles, Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
WEATHER IS
BECOMING
MORE EXTREME
“
Burma cyclone death
toll rises above 43,000.
- USA Today, May 15th, 2008
”
MAJOR FLOODS PER DECADE
“ 1,000 years
Australia suffers worst drought in
- Guardian UK, Nov 7, 2008
”
“
Australia fires spark calls
for CLIMATE ACTION
- Washington Post, March 1, 2006
“
”
“Rapid Warming’ Spreads
Havoc in Canada’s Forests.
- Washington Post, March 1, 2006
CREATES CLIMATE REFUGEES
“
Climate change could force
1 BILLION
from their homes by 2050.
- April 30, 2008, The Independent.
”
impacts
LOCAL LIVELIHOODS
“
STERN REVIEW, 2006
The most comprehensive
review ever carried out on the
economics of climate change
warns that global warming
could inflict worldwide
disruption as great as that
caused by the two World Wars
and the Great Depression.
- Environmental News Service
DISRUPTS FOOD PRODUCTION
“
The world has never faced such a
predictably massive threat to
food production as that posed by
the melting mountain glaciers of
Asia
”
- Lester Brown, Earth Policy
Institute, Author of Plan B
AFFECTS OUR
“
HEALTH:
Global Warming Increases
Malaria, Dengue Fever Threat,
UN Says.
- Bloomberg, Nov. 27, 2007
”
THREATENS
“
SECURITY:
Climate change will draw everdeeper lines of division and
conflict in international
relations… over the distribution
of resources, especially water
and land.
- Report: World in Transition
”
The most startling evidence yet…
is the MELTING OF THE ARCTIC.
% change in ice cover
New predictions
Satellite observations
Mean IPCC prediction
Most likely change (melt)
IPCC range
Actual observed melting
it has melted
nearly
80 YEARS
ahead of when
scientists predicted
YEAR
it’s about…
SCIENCE
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
CO2 CONCENTRATIONS ARE INCREASING
Parts per Million CO2
Where we’ll be mid-century if we keep this up
550ppm? More?
TODAY: 387ppm
EARLY 1900S
CO2 in PPM
LAST ICE AGE
TEMPERATURE
Years
today:
390ppm
CO2
Where do we
need to go from
here?
CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE
PARTS PER MILLION CO2
WE’RE HERE: 387
WE NEED TO BE HERE: 350
YEAR
THE WORLD NEEDS
US TO MAKE
CHANGES IN OUR
OWN BACKYARD
moving away
from fossil fuels
GLOBAL EMISSIONS STILL RISING 2PPM PER YEAR
MILLION METRIC TONS OF
CARBON/YEAR
Total
Petroleum
Coal
Natural Gas
Cement Production
YEAR
IT MEANS PUTTING UP WIND TURBINES
INSTEAD OF COAL PLANTS
IT MEANS PLANTING TREES
INSTEAD OF CLEAR-CUTTING RAINFORESTS
AND IMPLEMENTING
A THOUSAND
DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS
that can create
new jobs
And make our
communities
HEALTHIER
PARTS PER MILLION CO2
GETTING TO 350
YEAR
•ADAPTATION
•MITIGATION
•TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
•FINANCIAL RESOURCES
SOURCES – www.350.org
• BBC World Service Poll http://www.globescan.com/news_archives/bbc_climate/
• Hansen, James, et al. Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should
Humanity Aim? Submitted April 7, 2008.
• The IPCC 4th Assessment Report - www.ipcc.ch
• Baer, Paul, Tom Athanasiou and Sivan Kartha. "The Right to
Develop in a Climate Constrained World: The Greenhouse
Development Rights Framework"
• The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change
• NASA - www.nasa.gov
• RealClimate.org
• Climate Safety - www.climatesafety.org
• New Scientist - www.newscientist.com
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