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WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING
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CARBON DIOXIDE AND OTHER AIR POLLUTION
THAT IS COLLECTING IN THE ATMOSPHERE LIKE
A THICKENING BLANKET, TRAPPING THE SUN'S
HEAT AND CAUSING THE PLANET TO WARM UP.
COAL-BURNING POWER PLANTS ARE THE
LARGEST U.S. SOURCE OF CARBON DIOXIDE
POLLUTION -- THEY PRODUCE 2.5 BILLION TONS
EVERY YEAR. AUTOMOBILES, THE SECOND
LARGEST SOURCE, CREATE NEARLY 1.5 BILLION
TONS OF CO2 ANNUALLY. THE CHART FOR
GLOBAL CO2 EMISSIONS IS TO THE LEFT.
HOW GLOBAL WARMING AFFECTS THE
U.S.A
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NORTHEAST. HEAT WAVES, HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SEA LEVEL RISE POSE GROWING CHALLENGES TO
MANY ASPECTS OF LIFE IN THE NORTHEAST. INFRASTRUCTURE, AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND ECOSYSTEMS
WILL BE INCREASINGLY COMPROMISED. MANY STATES AND CITIES ARE BEGINNING TO INCORPORATE
CLIMATE CHANGE INTO THEIR PLANNING.
NORTHWEST. CHANGES IN THE TIMING OF STREAMFLOW REDUCE WATER SUPPLIES FOR COMPETING
DEMANDS. SEA LEVEL RISE, EROSION, INUNDATION, RISKS TO INFRASTRUCTURE AND INCREASING OCEAN
ACIDITY POSE MAJOR THREATS. INCREASING WILDFIRE, INSECT OUTBREAKS AND TREE DISEASES ARE
CAUSING WIDESPREAD TREE DIE-OFF.
SOUTHEAST. SEA LEVEL RISE POSES WIDESPREAD AND CONTINUING THREATS TO THE REGION’S ECONOMY
AND ENVIRONMENT. EXTREME HEAT WILL AFFECT HEALTH, ENERGY, AGRICULTURE AND MORE. DECREASED
WATER AVAILABILITY WILL HAVE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS.
MIDWEST. EXTREME HEAT, HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FLOODING WILL AFFECT INFRASTRUCTURE, HEALTH,
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, TRANSPORTATION, AIR AND WATER QUALITY, AND MORE. CLIMATE CHANGE WILL
ALSO EXACERBATE A RANGE OF RISKS TO THE GREAT LAKES.
SOUTHWEST. INCREASED HEAT, DROUGHT AND INSECT OUTBREAKS, ALL LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE,
HAVE INCREASED WILDFIRES. DECLINING WATER SUPPLIES, REDUCED AGRICULTURAL YIELDS, HEALTH
IMPACTS IN CITIES DUE TO HEAT, AND FLOODING AND EROSION IN COASTAL AREAS ARE ADDITIONAL
CONCERNS.
HOW CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS
ICE GLACIERS
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AFTER EXISTING FOR MANY MILLENNIA, THE NORTHERN SECTION OF THE LARSEN B ICE SHELF IN ANTARCTICA -- A SECTION
LARGER THAN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND -- COLLAPSED BETWEEN JANUARY AND MARCH 2002, DISINTEGRATING AT A
RATE THAT ASTONISHED SCIENTISTS. SINCE 1995, THE ICE SHELF'S AREA HAS SHRUNK BY 40 PERCENT.
ACCORDING TO NASA, THE POLAR ICE CAP IS NOW MELTING AT THE ALARMING RATE OF NINE PERCENT PER DECADE. ARCTIC
ICE THICKNESS HAS DECREASED 40 PERCENT SINCE THE 1960S.
ARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT SET AN ALL-TIME RECORD LOW IN SEPTEMBER 2007, WITH ALMOST HALF A MILLION SQUARE MILES
LESS ICE THAN THE PREVIOUS RECORD SET IN SEPTEMBER 2005, ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL SNOW AND ICE DATA CENTER.
OVER THE PAST 3 DECADES, MORE THAN A MILLION SQUARE MILES OF PERENNIAL SEA ICE -- AN AREA THE SIZE OF NORWAY,
DENMARK AND SWEDEN COMBINED -- HAS DISAPPEARED, THAT IS 339,089 SQUARED SQUARE MILE.
MULTIPLE CLIMATE MODELS INDICATE THAT SEA ICE WILL INCREASINGLY RETREAT AS THE EARTH WARMS. SCIENTISTS AT
THE U.S. CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH PREDICT THAT IF THE CURRENT RATE OF GLOBAL WARMING CONTINUES, THE
ARCTIC COULD BE ICE-FREE IN THE SUMMER BY 2040.
AT THE CURRENT RATE OF RETREAT, ALL OF THE GLACIERS IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK WILL BE GONE BY 2070.
HOW THAT AFFECTS SEA LEVEL
GLOBAL SEA LEVEL HAS ALREADY RISEN BY 4 TO 8 INCHES IN THE PAST CENTURY, AND THE PACE OF SEA
LEVEL RISE APPEARS TO BE ACCELERATING. THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
PREDICTS THAT SEA LEVELS COULD RISE 10 TO 23 INCHES BY 2100, BUT IN RECENT YEARS SEA LEVELS
HAVE BEEN RISING FASTER THAN THE UPPER END OF THE RANGE PREDICTED.
IN THE 1990S, THE GREENLAND ICE MASS REMAINED STABLE, BUT THE ICE SHEET HAS INCREASINGLY
DECLINED IN RECENT YEARS. THIS MELTING CURRENTLY CONTRIBUTES AN ESTIMATED ONEHUNDREDTH OF AN INCH PER YEAR TO GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE.
GREENLAND HOLDS 10 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL GLOBAL ICE MASS. IF IT MELTS, SEA LEVELS COULD
INCREASE BY UP TO 21 FEET.
HOW RISING SEA LEVELS AFFECT
US
SEA LEVEL RISING WILL AFFECT YOU
BECAUSE THE WATER WILL FLOOD THE
LAND AND CAN KILL HUMANS,
ANIMALS, AND DESTROY LAND MARKS.
THIS IS FLORIDA WITH 3 METERS OF
WATER RISEN, THIS HASN’T HAPPENED
YET BUT IT WILL EVENTUALLY. ALSO
SCIENTISTS HAVE PREDICTED THAT SEA
LEVEL WILL RISE 23 INCHES BY 2100.
HOW WILL WE REDUCE GLOBAL
WARMING
• WE WILL REDUCE GLOBAL WARMING BY USING ELECTRIC CARS AND THE CARS
THAT USE OIL WILL BE TAXED, THE TAX RATE WILL $3 FOR EVERY 20 POUNDS OF
CO2 YOUR CAR EMITS. ALSO IF YOU HAVE ITEMS THAT MAKE AIR POLLUTION
YOU WILL BE TAXED DEPENDING ON HOW AIR POLLUTION IT MAKES. THERE ARE
ELECTRIC 18 WHEELERS TO TRANSPORT ITEMS. FOR PLANES JET FUEL WILL STILL
BE USED BUT TAXED, CURRENTLY THERE ARE NO ELECTRIC CARGO PLANES OR
PASSENGER PLANES THAT CAN HOLD MORE THAN 5 PEOPLE. SO UNTIL WE CAN
MAKE THOSE PLANES, JET FUEL PLANES WILL STILL BE IN USE.
WHERE WILL THE SOLAR PANELS,
WIND MILLS, AND KINETIC TILES
GO?
• IN THE U.S.A. SOLAR PANELS WILL BE IN ALL OF THE DESERTS AND WIND MILLS
WILL BE IN NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA, KANSAS, OKLAHOMA,
TEXAS, IOWA, MISSOURI, ARKANSAS, ILLINOIS, AND INDIANA. THE KINETIC TILES
WILL BE IN SUBWAYS, AIRPORTS, COLLEGES, AND OTHER PLACES WHERE A LOT
OF PEOPLE WALK.
THE ENERGY SOURCES WE WILL
CONVERT TO
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WE WILL CONVERT TO ELECTRICITY. WE WILL GET THE ELECTRICITY BY WIND MILLS, SOLAR PANELS, AND
KINETIC TILES. KINETIC TILES ARE TILES THAT YOU STEP ON AND THEY CREATE ELECTRICITY. THERE ARE
TWO WAYS KINETIC TILES WORK. ONE WAY IS PIEZOELECTRICITY
WHEN THE MATERIAL IS COMPRESSED THE ATOMS PRESS TOGETHER ENOUGH TO CHANGE THE
CONFIGURATION OF THE ELECTRONS. WHEN THE PRESSURE IS REMOVED THE ELECTRONS RETURN TO THEIR
PREVIOUS PLACE. IF THE PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOUNDS ARE FITTED WITH AN AUXILIARY CIRCUIT THOUGH,
THE RETURNING ELECTRONS CAN BE CAPTURED AND USED TO CREATE A MICRO CIRCUIT.
THE SECOND WAY IS HYDRAULICS
WHEN THE SERIES OF HYDRAULIC PISTONS ARE COMPRESSED THEY CAN FORCE HYDRAULIC LIQUID
THROUGH THE SYSTEM CREATING PRESSURE. THAT PRESSURE IS PUSHED THROUGH HYDRAULIC LINES AND
EVENTUALLY STORED IN A PRESSURE VESSEL KNOWN AS AN ACCUMULATOR. THE STORED PRESSURE IS
THEN RAN THROUGH A MOTOR OR GENERATOR AS NEEDED PRODUCING ELECTRICITY.
HOW WILL WE PAY FOR IT
• WE WILL PAY FOR IT BY EACH CITIZEN (ABOVE 18) (IF YOU MAKE $50,000 OR
MORE) WILL BE TAXED $1 TO THE GOVERNMENT AND THAT TAX WILL HAPPEN
EVERY YEAR. AND IF THAT WORKS THAT WILL BE AROUND $200,000,000 PER YEAR.
THERE WILL ALSO BE A DONATION GROUP AND ALL OF THE MONEY IT RAISES
WILL GO TO THE GOVERNMENT TO FUND THE PROJECT. ALSO ON SLIDE 7 IT SAID
THAT WE WILL TAX THINGS THAT MAKE AIR POLLUTION AND THAT MONEY WILL
BE USED TO FUND THIS.
THE CHANGES YOU WILL SEE IF
YOU VOTE FOR OUR PROPOSAL
YOU WILL SEE LOTS OF CHANGES IN THE UNITED STATES LIKE MOST CARS WILL BE
ELECTRIC AND THE OIL BURNING CARS WILL BE TAXED. THERE WOULD ALSO BE
WIND MILLS EVERYWHERE AND SOLAR PANELS IN EVERY DESERT OR IN A PLACE
WITH A LOT OF SUN.
SHOULD WE HAVE OTHER
COUNTRIES INVOLVED
• YES, WE WILL TRY TO GET ALL OF EUROPE DOING THE SAME THING AMERICA WILL
DO. THEN IF THEY ARE ON BOARD WE WOULD TALK TO OTHER COUNTRIES LIKE
CHINA AND RUSSIA AND IF THEY ARE ON BOARD THEN WE WILL MOVE TO THE
MIDDLE EAST AND THEN SOUTH AMERICA AND THESE WILL BE THE AREAS THAT WE
WILL HELP. ONCE WE HAVE ALL THE COUNTRIES INVOLVED THE COUNTRY LEADERS
WILL HAVE A MEETING AND TALK ABOUT IDEAS ON NEW WAYS TO GET CLEAN
ELECTRICITY AND STOP GLOBAL WARMING. THE COUNTRY THAT WON’T BE
INVOLVED WILL BE AFRICA BECAUSE AFRICA DOESN’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO
HELP SUPPORT THIS IDEA AND THEY DON’T PRODUCE AS MUCH POLLUTION AS WE
DO.
SOURCES
• HTTP://MRTHOMPSON2.WEEBLY.COM/UPLOADS/3/7/7/8/37780401/CLIMATE_CHANGE
_PROJECT_2016_THOMPSON.PDF
• HTTP://WWW.NRDC.ORG/GLOBALWARMING/F101.ASP?GCLID=CMRIZD_WPMOCFQRAQOD3UAPVA
• HTTP://WWW.UCSUSA.ORG/OUR-WORK/GLOBAL-WARMING/SCIENCE-ANDIMPACTS/GLOBAL-WARMING-SCIENCE
• HTTP://CLIMATE.NASA.GOV/EFFECTS/