Intro: GreenHouse Gasses

1. There are many types of greenhouse gasses, such as methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide.

2. Greenhouse gasses are trapped inside the atmosphere due to Ozone. However, without ozone, we would be exposed to pure UV Rays.

3. Carbon Dioxide CO2 accounts for 81% of all greenhouse gasses.

Global Warming

1. Global Warming is caused by the build up of greenhouse gasses, due to the sunlight that usually reflects off the surface now becomes reflected back into the ground, creating this heat trap.

2. This heat that is being built up has melted over 46 gigatons of ice every year for the past 10 years. In total, Global Warming melted 184 million olympic sized swimming pools of water.

3. Some species—including mosquitoes, ticks, jellyfish, and crop pests—are thriving. Booming populations of bark beetles that feed on spruce and pine trees have devastated millions of forested acres in the U.S.

Climate Change

1. 408 part​s per million. The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2)​​​​​​​ in our atmosphere, as of 2018, is the highest it has been in 3 million years.

2. 2016 ​was the warmest year on record. NASA and NOAA data show that global averages in 2016 were 1.78 degrees F (0.99 degrees C) warmer than the mid-20th century average. Seventeen of the 18 warmest years have occurred since 2000.

3. 800 million people. Eleven percent of the world’s population is currently vulnerable to climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, heat waves, extreme weather events and sea-level rise.

4. Nature is an untapped solution. Tropical forests are incredibly effective at storing carbon — providing at least 30% of action needed to prevent the worst climate change scenarios. Yet nature-based solutions only receive only 2% of all climate funding.

5. Nearly 1 million hectares lost. An area of coastal ecosystems larger than New York City is destroyed every year, removing an important buffer from extreme weather for coastal communities and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

How to SOLVE

Offshore Wind Turbines

Offshore wind is an abundant, domestic energy resource that is located close to major coastal load centers. It provides an efficient alternative to long-distance transmission or development of electricity generation in these land-constrained regions.

Hydraulic Energy

Wave power devices extract energy directly from the surface motion of ocean waves. Tidal devices extract energy due to the continuous flow of water, spins both ways.

Solar Power

With the signficantly decreased price to manufacture solar cells, it is no surprise that solar power is one of the best renewable energies. Some states have dedicated resevoirs to float Solar on.

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Good Websites

Eathsight
The Guardian — Environment
The Gecko Project