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global warming and ocean, Cheat Sheet of Environmental Science

ocean temp and global warming and the effects of global warming

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2022/2023

Uploaded on 07/10/2024

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Drop in the Ocean TroCaire Name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTz8xjL6g3E
1. What event does the documentary show in the initial conversations occurring?
2. What does the narrator say about how much the carbon dioxide emissions has increased during
the time since the first meeting?
3. When did the government start meeting?
4. What is the view of the people, who are first speaking in the movie about the future?
5. Describe three of the scenes shown in the first part of the movie.
6. What do the scientists believe is the level of certainty that global warming is occurring as a result
of human activities?
7. Any amount of Carbon in the atmosphere that is greater than 350 parts per million is what?
8. How fast is the amount of carbon in the atmosphere growing?
9. What current events and disasters do the scientists attribute to the amount of carbon in the
atmosphere?
10. What does the World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Index show?
11. Why would a dead ocean cause problems for people?
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Drop in the Ocean TroCaire Name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTz8xjL6g3E

  1. What event does the documentary show in the initial conversations occurring?
  2. What does the narrator say about how much the carbon dioxide emissions has increased during the time since the first meeting?
  3. When did the government start meeting?
  4. What is the view of the people, who are first speaking in the movie about the future?
  5. Describe three of the scenes shown in the first part of the movie.
  6. What do the scientists believe is the level of certainty that global warming is occurring as a result of human activities?
  7. Any amount of Carbon in the atmosphere that is greater than 350 parts per million is what?
  8. How fast is the amount of carbon in the atmosphere growing?
  9. What current events and disasters do the scientists attribute to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere?
  10. What does the World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Index show?
    1. Why would a dead ocean cause problems for people?
  1. What will happen to Ireland’s weather in the winter and the summer according to Dr. Sweeney?
  2. What will happen to the coastal infrastructure?
  3. What does Dr. Sweeney say about coastal erosion and storms?
  4. What does Dr. Sweeney say happened in 2002? What is a storm surge?
  5. Why are freeze events, which seem counter-intuitive to the idea of global warming, result from climate change caused by greenhouse gases?
  6. Why is agriculture particularly susceptible to climate change?
  7. How do the Irish compare with Ethiopians when it comes to responsibility for carbon emissions?
  8. What would climate change do to a typical pastoral lifestyle such as seen in a country like Uganda or Ethiopia?
  9. What problems are the farmers experiencing in Kenya? How are things different there as a result of the current climate change problems?
  10. What do the Ethiopian school girls tell the Irish to change about their life styles?
  11. What does the film say motivates “snake oil salespeople,” who claim that climate change is a myth?
  1. What does the speaker think that the government should do to help people have options to current energy systems?
  2. When does the “Friends of the Earth” spokesperson think that Ireland should be “fossil fuel free” by?
  3. Why is renewable energy like windmill turbine generators likely to be successful there?
  4. What strategy does he suggest that would increase the buy in from the Templeberry communities that use alternative energy sources?
  5. Why is solar energy a good option there?
  6. Why isn’t the government doing more about public transport or to discourage private transportation?
  7. What is meant by a congestion charge in Dublin?
  8. What should the government do in public buildings to save energy use?
  9. What is suggested to do politically to make change?
  10. Of the countries depicted in this video, which country is most like the US in terms of development? Which country needs to make the most changes in order to mitigate climate change?