Climate Change Resource Portfolio

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Climate Change Impacts

There are many aspects of life that are predicted to be altered by climate change. The images below are just a few of many that visually show some of the changes that are expected to be seen with climate change on both the global and local scale.

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http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/global_warming/images/various_water_impacts.jpg

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Potential Climate Change Global Effects

Although there is a lot to be said for the potential effects of climate change, the images and links provided below give a range of impacts and how humans and other aspects of the Earth will be affected.

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The Current and Future Consequences of Global Change

Global Warming and Climate Change Threats and Impacts

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New Climate Change Movie: Thin Ice

A new movie on climate change called 'Thin Ice' has been released. In this film researchers on 4 different continents and ocean were visited as they studied different aspects of the atmosphere, ocean and ice sheets. This film allows for insight on how scientists work with theses topics, including the different instruments and proxies that are used to aid in their studies. The creators of the film said that

" The aim from the outset was to give people from all walks of the life the chance to see the astonishing range of human activity as well as scientific endeavor that is required to help us understand our changing climate. Our idea was then we would all be better able to decide both individually and collectively how we might deal with it."

Thin Ice

Linking Extreme Weather with Climate Change?

Although there is not a consensus that extreme weather events, such as Hurricane Irene and the heat wave in Russia, are linked to climate change, scientists are beginning to lean in the directed that the two are connected. The links below are readings that further explain the ideas that scientists are beginning to explore further.

Extreme Measures

Framing the Way to Relate Climate Extremes to Climate Change

http://grist.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/yale_extreme_weather_graph

Carbon Footprint

How can I help deal with climate change is a common though. Reducing your carbon footprint, the amount of carbon that is used and released back into the atmosphere, is a practical way of helping to combat climate change.

Here are two different carbon footprint calculators. They take a few minutes to get through but at the end there are great comparisons and information about where you use the most carbon and where you could reduce.

EPA Carbon Footprint Calculator

Nature Conservatory Carbon Footprint Calculator

This short video also describes way that you can lessen the impact that you have by reducing your carbon footprint. By changing little things in your lifestyle reduce more than you may think.

Problems with Renewable Energy

Towns sometimes jump into renewable energy projects and not all the implications of the project are considers. For Scituate and Kingston Massachusetts, the residents that are located by the wind turbines that were placed, are not pleased with the negative effects that they are feeling. The top complaints are the noise and the shadow flicker effect that happens when the sun cuts through the blades at a certain angle. The stories below give more insight to the feeling for the residents near the turbines and the steps that the town to take.

Kingston Turbine

Scituate Turbine