PART 2 CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECT OUR LIVES

This diagram shows the effects of the earth's greehouse gases and how solar radiation enters and leaves earth and its penetration.

Greenhouse effect is a warming of the lower atmosphere and surface of a planet by a complex process involving sunlight, gases, and particles in the atmosphere. On the earth, the greenhouse effect began long before human beings existed.

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There are two meanings of the term "greenhouse effect". There is a "natural" greenhouse effect that keeps the Earth's climate warm and habitable. There is also the "man-made" greenhouse effect, which is the enhancement of Earth's natural greenhouse effect by the addition of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels (mainly petroleum, coal, and natural gas

PART 1 CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECT OUR LIVES

Climate change is already affecting our lives and the places we live, and has the potential to dramatically impact the lives of future generations.
The Nature Conservancy is joining with policy makers, community members, businesses, scientists, industry leaders and others to slow the pace of climate change. We work to reduce the accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere and help natural areas adjust to the impacts of climate change.
If we don’t act now, we will leave a much larger problem to our children. The good news is that, if we all join in to stop climate change, we can reduce its impact on our lives, on our environment and on future generations.


This image shows a large part of the earth being effected by climate change. the most deadly climate change being moved around is Greenhouse gases and Global warming.

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earths near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation.

greenhouse gases Greenhouse gases are gases in an atmosphere that absord and emit radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect. The main greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone.

White House Releases Landmark Climate Change Report

Observations show that warming of the climate is unequivocal. The global warming observed over the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases. These emissions come mainly from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), with additional contributions from the clearing of forests and agricultural activities."

A New Chapter on Climate Change

President-elect Obama recorded a message for the Global Climate Summit, promising "a new chapter of American leadership on climate change." Learn more at Change.gov.

what can i do to help prevent climate change?

Change a light - Replace a regular lighbulb with a fluorscent saves 150 pounds of carbon dioxided each year.

Drive less -walk bike carpool taks mass transit and or trip chain. All of these things can help reduce consumption and one pound of carbon dioxide for each mie you do not drive.

Recycle more and buy recycled - save up to 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide each year just by recycling half of you house hold waste. By recycling and buying products with recycled content you also save energy.

Check your tires - properly inflated tires mean good gass mileage. For each gallon of gass saved 20 pounds of caron dioxide are also never produced.

Use less hot water - it takes alot of ebergy to heat water. reducing the amount used means big saving in noy only your energy bills, but also carbon dioxide emissions. Using cold water for your wash saves 500 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

Avoid products with alot of packaging - preventing waste from being created in the first place means that there is less energy waste and fewer resourse consumed.

Adjust your thermostat - keeping your termostat at 69 degrees in water and 78 degrees in the summer not only helps with your energy bill but it reduce carbon dioxide emission as well.

Plant a tree - a single tree can absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

Turn off electronic devices when not use.(TV, DVD, VCR, Computer and etc) - simple turning off your TV, VCR< computer and other electronic devices can save each household thousand of pounds of carbon dioxide each year.


earth911.com/news/2007/04/02/what-can-i-do-to-help-prevent-climate-change/

Government Warning On Climate Change-Critical Moment

this video is just a little summary about "governemnts warning on climate change" and its critical moment.

When did climate change start?

The earth has been warming up since the industrial age. the machines of modern life and the fuels that powered them began to change the climate. but scientist say climate change began way earlier as in a thousands years ago.

climate change is a change in the statistical distrubution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. this can be changed in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events around an average.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/climate _change