1. What is the big deal about climate change?

2. The sun is the primary heat source for the earth

3. Millions of years ago it was much warmer than it is today.

4. Four thousand years ago
Today

5. Earth’s Temperature
Temperature
Time

6. What is climate change and global warming?

7. Atmosphere

8. Without the greenhouse effect, the average surface temperature would be 255 degrees kelvin (-18 degrees Celsius or 0 degrees Fahrenheit); a temperature so low that all water on Earth would freeze, the oceans would turn into ice and life, as we know it, would not exist

9. What does this have to do with us?

12. Coal
Gas
Oil

13. oxygen
carbon dioxide

14. What effect is Global Warming Having?

15. There will be an increase in weather extremes.

16. Plimmerton beach at high tide 24th July 2016

20. Some of the animals endangered by global warming

21. Walk or cycle instead of taking the car
Play outside rather than on an electronic gadget
Put on a jersey instead of turning up the heater
What Can We Do?
Take a shower instead of a bath
Encourage others to make a change too
Switch appliances off at the wall
Plant lots of trees
Replace light bulbs with LEDs