1. www.kidscall.info KidsCall – Save Life on Earth!

2. www.kidscall.info Climate Change Global Impact!

3. www.kidscall.info Weather extremes on the increase

4. www.kidscall.info Weather extremes on the increase

5. www.kidscall.info Weather extremes on the increase

6. www.kidscall.info Temperatures are rising

7. www.kidscall.info Ancient glaciers are melting

8. www.kidscall.info Freshwater becomes scarce

9. www.kidscall.info Erosion and land slides

10. www.kidscall.info Our Earth is in danger! Hurricanes Famines Lack of Water Extinction of millions of species FloodsDroughts Extreme weather conditions Sealife Extinction Glaciers + polar ice caps melting Sea levels rising Climate Refugees Desertification Food Insecurity Global warming

11. www.kidscall.info Who is effected? Africa: By 2020, up to 250 million people to be exposed to water stress, desertification & droughts. Famine and mass evictions. Spreading of deadly diseases. Asia: Water stress, desertification, decreased food productivity. Melting of Himalayan glaciers will cause collapse of river systems. Hurricanes. Australia and New Zealand: Significant biodiversity loss by 2020, including sea life extinction. Water stress, droughts. Europe: Extreme weather including increased heat waves, wildfires and reduced crop productivity, as well as heavy rainfalls causing landslides and floods. North America: Heat waves with adverse health impacts. Water stress. Hurricanes. Latin America: By mid- century, projected replacement of tropical forest by savanna in eastern Amazonia. Water stress. Droughts. Small Islands: Deterioration in coastal conditions e.g. beach erosion and coral bleaching. Loss of biodiversity and local resources. Loss of land.

12. www.kidscall.info Climate Change What‘s causing climate change?

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14. http://www.ippc.ch Agricultural Fertilization Transportation and energy production – Land use and deforestation Transport and EnergyFactory farming - Burning waste and fossil fuels

15. www.kidscall.info Power production

16. www.kidscall.info Transportation

17. www.kidscall.info Deforestation

18. www.kidscall.info Factory farming

19. www.kidscall.info Areas are proportional to historic carbon dioxid emissions from fossil fuel combustion, 1900 – 1990 Industrialized Developing Souce: World Resources Institute, http://ww.wri.orghttp://ww.wri.org Map by Equator Graphics, Inc. Where do the polluters live?

20. www.kidscall.info How many Earths would we need? Human Ecological Footprint

21. www.kidscall.info Climate Change STOP Climate Change! It‘s not too late, but it is urgent!

22. www.kidscall.info We have to change our habits & consumption, and we have to change policies! respect the planet, save resources, What can YOU do to Stop Climate Change? Act local – Think global!

23. www.kidscall.info Act locally – recycle and educate!

24. www.kidscall.info Act locally – reduce waste!

25. www.kidscall.info Buy local organic food – reduce meat consumption

26. www.kidscall.info Act locally – save energy, switch to renewables! Bye-Bye Stand-by!

27. www.kidscall.info SAVE LIFE ON EARTH! www.kidscall.info Thank you for your attention!

28. www.kidscall.info Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/ Greenpeace International http://www.greenpeace.org/internat ional/campaigns/climate-change WWF International http://panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/cl imate_change/problems/global_warming/in dex.cfm BBC Climate Change http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature /portal/climate_change/default.stm National Geographic http://science.nationalgeographic.com/sc ience/environment/global-warming/gw- overview.html Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Climate_change Deutsche Welle http://www.dw3d.de/dw/0, 2142,11798,00.html Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung http://www.pik-potsdam.de/infodesk/climate- change-knowledge-in-a-nutshell Kids - Create Your Future http://www.kidsforfuture.net/ Links for Further Reading