Climate disruption - PP
- Climate change is caused by the people.
- The Kyoto Protocol was the first agreement to regulate the reduction of greenhouse
gas emissions but ended in 2020.
- Meanwhile, climate change is still happening and getting more serious.
- Co2 level is rising.
- Greenhouse gasses are rising.
- The temperature rose 1 degree overall since industrialization.
- In the Netherlands even 1.7 degrees.
- The average global sea surface temperature is rising as well.
- We are gaining a lot of energy as planet earth because of the
extra greenhouse gasses we are putting in the atmosphere
and most of it is stored in our oceans.
- Bad for:
- Sea culture
- Sea level
- The warmer the ocean the more it will
rise due to expansion and melting ice.
- Extremer weather events.
- More floods
- More storms
- More droughts
- More heatwaves
- More tipping points
- Tipping points are a point at which an ecosystem can no
longer cope with environmental change, and the ecosystem
suddenly shifts from one state to another.
- Examples that can cause tipping points (cause of
tipping points are not always known);
- Volcanoes
- Humans
- Earthquakes
- Examples of tipping points
- Melting of permafrost
- This causes the methane (strong
greenhouse gas) underneath the
permafrost to release into our
atmosphere. → Accelerates the
greenhouse gas effect and
therefore global warming. → More
global warming → More melting of
permafrost.
- Greenland ice sheet disintegration
- The irreversible retreat of the ice
sheet caused by rising
temperatures → Sea level rise as a
result.
- Amazon rainforest dieback
, - Deforestation and hotter, drier
conditions causing dieback of the
rainforest → Biodiversity loss and
decreased rainfall
- Why don’t we avoid tipping points?
- Tipping points are hard to predict and are often
a surprise.
- The problem is that often our ecosystems are
not easy to understand and are affected by
many different things. To try and stop tipping
points we need to think about and investigate all
the factors that could influence an ecosystem,
which is a big job.
- How tipping point could be avoided:
- Gaining a better understanding of what affects
different ecosystems
- Reducing human impacts on ecosystems
- Regularly monitoring ecosystems to pick up on
any changes.
Climate change psychology
- The negative effects of climate change are:
- In the future
- Or in another country
- This is why people don’t see it as a problem.
- Awareness is rising and makes it easier to try to act on the problem.
Climate change and health - PP
- Greenhouse gas emissions result in climate change, in global warming.
- Climate change is caused by the people.
- The Kyoto Protocol was the first agreement to regulate the reduction of greenhouse
gas emissions but ended in 2020.
- Meanwhile, climate change is still happening and getting more serious.
- Co2 level is rising.
- Greenhouse gasses are rising.
- The temperature rose 1 degree overall since industrialization.
- In the Netherlands even 1.7 degrees.
- The average global sea surface temperature is rising as well.
- We are gaining a lot of energy as planet earth because of the
extra greenhouse gasses we are putting in the atmosphere
and most of it is stored in our oceans.
- Bad for:
- Sea culture
- Sea level
- The warmer the ocean the more it will
rise due to expansion and melting ice.
- Extremer weather events.
- More floods
- More storms
- More droughts
- More heatwaves
- More tipping points
- Tipping points are a point at which an ecosystem can no
longer cope with environmental change, and the ecosystem
suddenly shifts from one state to another.
- Examples that can cause tipping points (cause of
tipping points are not always known);
- Volcanoes
- Humans
- Earthquakes
- Examples of tipping points
- Melting of permafrost
- This causes the methane (strong
greenhouse gas) underneath the
permafrost to release into our
atmosphere. → Accelerates the
greenhouse gas effect and
therefore global warming. → More
global warming → More melting of
permafrost.
- Greenland ice sheet disintegration
- The irreversible retreat of the ice
sheet caused by rising
temperatures → Sea level rise as a
result.
- Amazon rainforest dieback
, - Deforestation and hotter, drier
conditions causing dieback of the
rainforest → Biodiversity loss and
decreased rainfall
- Why don’t we avoid tipping points?
- Tipping points are hard to predict and are often
a surprise.
- The problem is that often our ecosystems are
not easy to understand and are affected by
many different things. To try and stop tipping
points we need to think about and investigate all
the factors that could influence an ecosystem,
which is a big job.
- How tipping point could be avoided:
- Gaining a better understanding of what affects
different ecosystems
- Reducing human impacts on ecosystems
- Regularly monitoring ecosystems to pick up on
any changes.
Climate change psychology
- The negative effects of climate change are:
- In the future
- Or in another country
- This is why people don’t see it as a problem.
- Awareness is rising and makes it easier to try to act on the problem.
Climate change and health - PP
- Greenhouse gas emissions result in climate change, in global warming.
