KES Green Day rd Friday 23 March
Shoe Box Appeal
Goedgedacht Project
Summer Camp
23rd March
Whole School Green Day Disco: St Mark's School pupils
Advanced Economics
Let the Olympic Games begin! MFL Olympic Quiz!
Junior House
Homework
'Green promise' by all members of the school Technology Club Printer cartridge recycling
Football competition Shirley Reading Scheme Choir revision Third Year French Exchange: Home leg Geography Club The weekend!
1 why should I be green 2 what could happen 3 what can I do
Stern Report 2006
Graph of global temperature increase
Graph of global temperature increase
Graph of population increase
It is certain that increased greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and from land use change lead to a warming of climate, and it is very likely that these green house gases are the dominant cause of the global warming that has been taking place over the last 50 years.
Whilst the extent of climate change is often expressed in a single figure – global temperature – the effects of climate change (such as temperature, precipitation and the frequency of extreme weather events) will vary greatly from place to place.
People are causing the change by burning nature's vast stores of coal, oil and natural gas. This releases billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year If current trends continue, we will raise atmospheric CO2 concentrations to double pre-industrial levels during this century. That will probably be enough to raise global temperatures by around 2째C to 5째C
Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada's Inuit see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost. The shantytown dwellers of Latin America and Southern Asia see it in lethal storms and floods. Europeans see it in disappearing glaciers, forest fires and fatal heat waves.
Thermal expansion of the oceans, combined with melting ice on land, is also raising sea levels. In this century, human activity could trigger an irreversible melting of the Greenland ice sheet and Antarctic glaciers. This would condemn the world to a rise in sea level of six metres - enough to flood land occupied by billions of people.
2 what could happen
Soil — Soil conservation • Soil erosion • Soil contamination • Soil salination •Land use — Urban sprawl • Habitat fragmentation • Habitat destruction •Nanotechnology —fuel Nanotoxicology • Nanopollution •Nuclear issues — Nuclear fallout • Nuclear meltdown • Nuclear power • Nuclear weapon •Overpopulation — Burial • Water crisis • Overpopulation in companion animals • Tragedy Water •Ozone depletion — CFC •Pollution — Environmental impact of the coal industry • Nonpoint source pollution • Point Water transport pollution — Environmental impact of the coal industry • Acid rain • Eutrop Air pollution — Environmental impact of the coal industry • Smog • Tropospheric population •Reservoirs — Environmental impacts of reservoirs •Resource depletion — Exploitation food of natural resources • Overdrafting Consumerism — Consumer capitalism • Planned obsolescence • Over-consump Fishing — Blast fishing • Bottom trawling • Cyanide fishing • Ghost nets • Illegal, Logging — Clearcutting • Deforestation • Illegal logging Mining — Acid mine drainage • Hydraulic fracturing • Mountaintop removal minin •Toxins — Chlorofluorocarbons • DDT • Endocrine disruptors • Dioxin • Toxic heavy metals Bioaccumulation • Biomagnification •Waste — Electronic waste • Litter • Waste disposal incidents • Marine debris • Medical wa Garbage Patch Water crisis • Marine debris • Microplastics • Ocean acidification • Ship pollution • Wastewater • Fish kill • Algal bloom • Mercury in fish
People are causing the change by burning nature's vast stores of coal, oil and natural gas. This releases billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year If current trends continue, we will raise atmospheric CO2 concentrations to double pre-industrial levels during this century. That will probably be enough to raise global temperatures by around 2째C to 5째C
Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada's Inuit see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost. The shantytown dwellers of Latin America and Southern Asia see it in lethal storms and floods. Europeans see it in disappearing glaciers, forest fires and fatal heat waves.
Thermal expansion of the oceans, combined with melting ice on land, is also raising sea levels. In this century, human activity could trigger an irreversible melting of the Greenland ice sheet and Antarctic glaciers. This would condemn the world to a
rise in sea level
of six metres - enough to flood land occupied by billions of people.
Current sea levels
Increase in sea levels of 6m
Southern Water has applied for an emergency drought permit Water levels in the UK's reservoirs, rivers and streams are dropping Britain faces worst drought for more than 30 years Drought could lead to a surge in food price Drought order extension request
Drought and oil price rise set to drive inflation Hosepipe ban to be imposed in drought-hit parts of UK Drought: a gardening survival guide for a dry season Will droughts hit crisp production in England?
Water is a natural resource We use too much of it
We do NOT have a “human� right to it.
3 what can I do
As rivers run dry right across the country - solutions:
21-2-12
1. The water companies tell us we mustn't spend more than FOUR minutes in the shower - take egg-timers into the shower 2. Turn off tap while brushing teeth.
3. Calls for national grid for water.
National grid for water How big a pipeline?
Starting and ending where? How often would it need to operate? Who would pay?
Greater London alone would need a pipe the capacity of the Thames flowing all day - every day to meet its current water needs
As rivers run dry right across the country - solutions:
21-2-12
1. The water companies tell us we mustn't spend more than FOUR minutes in the shower - take egg-timers into the shower 2. Turn off tap while brushing teeth.
3. Calls for national grid for water.
KES Green Day rd Friday 23 March
1976
KES Green Day rd Friday 23 March
I turn on the tap and the water flows. Don’t know where it comes from, Don’t know where it goes, But it’s clean and clear and it never runs short, So I never ever give it a second thought.