1. Unit 3 GEOG3: Contemporary Geographical Issues
AQA Website:

2. Individually, create a mind map of what you already know.
Global Warming
What is GW?
What causes GW?
What are the effects of GW?
What are the responses to GW?
Combine ideas in small groups.

3. Global Warming vs Climate Change
Global warming refers only to the Earth’s rising surface temperature, while climate change includes warming and the “side effects” of warming—like melting glaciers, heavier rainstorms, or more frequent drought. Definitions Global warming: the increase in Earth’s average surface temperature due to rising levels of greenhouse gases. Climate change: a long-term change in the Earth’s climate, or of a region on Earth.

4. Examine this infographic.
30 March 2016)

5. Global Climate Change Health? Development? Urbanisation? Industry?
Globalisation?
Sustainability?

6. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ department-of-health
Research
What are the projected impacts of climate change on health in the UK according to the Department of Health?
Can you identify any other projected impacts on health within the UK from other sources?
department-of-health

7. National Responses to Climate Change
What direct links can be identified?
What indirect links can be established?
Is there any content, in the infographic, which isn’t evidenced in the Climate Change Act?
How relevant is the infographic to developing nations?

8. Groundwater and Climate Change
Current global climate model predictions are based on a range of emissions scenarios developed by the International Panel on Climate Change in the late 1990s.
These scenarios encapsulate different global economic futures and are inherently uncertain.

9. Climate Change and Energy Supplies
Increasing renewables should increase health – is this feasible?

10. Climate Change and Global Effects
Locate the projected effects shown by the NASA on a world map: