warming notes
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How humans affect the atmosphereTRANSCRIPT
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Objectives
Explain how humans affect the atmosphere
Provide evidence for climate change
Describe consequences associated with ozone depletion and climate change
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Question
How does a changing climate affect humans?
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Ozone layer
From Earth Science, what do you remember about the ozone layer?
Where is it?
What does it do?
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Ozone layer
Ozone Layer: A layer of ozone gas located in the Stratosphere
Which layer of the atmosphere is the stratosphere?
Ozone gas absorbs UV radiation
You can think of the ozone layer as the Earth’s sunscreen
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Ozone layer
Molecules called CFCs destroy ozone
CFCs were once used as propellants, in coolants, and in making plastic
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Ozone layer
Who has heard of the hole in the ozone layer? What do you know about it?
Every spring CFC concentrations become high in the atmosphere over the Arctic
The CFCs destroy ozone causing a hole in the ozone above the Arctic
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Ozone layer
What do you think would be the effect of less ozone in the atmosphere?
Increased skin cancer
Eye damage
Harms amphibians and their eggs
Too much UV can harm plants
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Ozone layer
In 1987 the use of CFCs was banned
Since then concentrations of CFCs in the atmosphere have been falling
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Global Warming
What do you know about global warming?
What do you think is real?
What do you think is hype?
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Here is what we know
These things have been observed and recorded
The last 2 decades are the warmest on record
The polar ice caps are getting smaller
Sea levels are rising
Storms are becoming more frequent
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Here is what we know
So, what are humans doing that is causing the globe to warm?
Carbon Dioxide and other greenhouse gases prevent heat from leaving the atmosphere
Humans burning things (especially fossil fuels)releases greenhouse gases
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Effects
What are the effects of a warmer planet?
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EffectsMore frequent, more intense storms
Extinction of some animals
Other animals moving into new areas
Increased droughts
Loss of land to a rising sea
Can you think of any others?
Consider this ...
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Effects
Here is a dramatic, but funny take on global warming
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Effects
We must make a distinction
Damaging the ozone layer and global warming are not the same thing
How are they different?
Loss of ozone leads to more UV radiation
The addition of greenhouse gases traps heat
UV radiation doesn’t cause heat
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Project
Get into your groups and work on your project