CLIMATE CHANGE AND

GLOBAL WARMING
Presentation by: Meliza Palma BCAED 2 -C
WHAT ARE
THEY?

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 CLIMATE CHANGE
• Climate change is a change in the usual weather found in a
place. This could be a change in how much rain a place
usually gets in a year. Or it could be a change in a place's
usual temperature for a month or season.

• Climate change is also a change in Earth's climate. This could

be a change in Earth's usual temperature. Or it could be a
change in where rain and snow usually fall on Earth.

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 GLOBAL WARMING
Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth’s climate system
observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to
human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-
trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere.

The term is frequently used interchangeably with the term climate

change, though the latter refers to both human- and naturally produced
warming and the effects it has on our planet. It is most commonly
measured as the average increase in Earth’s global surface temperature.

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 WHAT MAKES
CLIMATE CHANGE
DIFFERENT FROM
GLOBAL
WARMING?

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 Climate change Global warming

• “Climate change” refers to the • “Global warming” refers to the rise

increasing changes in the measures in global temperatures due mainly to
of climate over a long period of time the increasing concentrations of
– including precipitation, greenhouse gases in the
temperature, and wind patterns. atmosphere.

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 HOW LONG HAS CLIMATE
CHANGE BEEN GOING?
Scientists generally regard the later part of the 19th century
as the point at which human activity started influencing the
climate.

But the new study brings that date forward to the 1830s ,
The first signs of warming from the rise in greenhouse gases
which came hand-in-hand with the Industrial Revolution
appear as early as 1830 in the tropical oceans and the
Arctic, meaning that climate change witnessed today began
about 180 years ago.

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WHO DISCOVERED
CLIMATE
CHANGE?

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 JOSEPH FOURIER
In the 1820s Joseph Fourier – French mathematician,
physicist, moderate revolutionary, had proposed an
intellectual problem.

He declared:

• Earth should be cooler

• Solar radiation from the sun was not enough to keep

the planet as warm as it was.

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 LOUIS AGASSIZ

Swiss-American biologist, and geologist had noted and

observed something odd about our landscape.

He pointed that the climate had been very different in the

past.

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 JOHN TYNDALL
Irish physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, added
detail to Fourier’s concept of the warming atmosphere.

Found evidence showing that it was water vapor and

carbon dioxide the trapped the heat in the atmosphere.

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 SVANTE ARRHENIUS

Swedish physicist, chemist, and Nobel Prize winner, who put

the story together.

He argued that if quantities of carbonic acid – or CO2 for

our purposes – in the atmosphere were to drop by half the
current amount, then the Earth’s surface temperature
would drop by 4 degrees. Conversely, if the concentration
were to double, then it would warm by four degrees.

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 This is the skeleton of the key fact of climate
change:

that our planet is kept warm by greenhouse gases, and more

of these gases makes the planet warmer. This took a century
to uncover.

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HOW DO THEY
WORK?

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 Climate change Global warming

• As the earth's atmosphere heats up, • Global warming is caused by an

it collects, retains, and drops more increase in the greenhouse effect. The

water, changing weather patterns greenhouse effect occurs when certain

and making wet areas wetter and gases in the atmosphere trap heat.

dry areas drier. • These gases prevent the heat from

escaping back into the space.
• Higher temperatures worsen and
Greenhouse gases increase the
increase the frequency of many
temperature of the planet by not
types of disasters, including storms,
allowing the heat to escape through it.
floods, heat waves, and droughts.

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WHAT CAUSED
THIS TO
HAPPEN?

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 LIST OF MAJOR CAUSES
• Generating power

• Manufacturing goods

• Cutting down forests

• Using transportation

• Producing food

• Powering buildings

• Consuming too much

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 WHAT ARE THE
EFFECTS OF THIS
ON OUR PLANET?

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 LIST OF MAJOR EFFECTS
• Hotter temperatures

• More severe storms

• Increased drought

• A warming, rising ocean

• Loss of species

• Not enough food

• More health risks

• Poverty and displacement

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 W H AT C A N W E D O
TO L ESSE N/ R E D U C E
IT?

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 LIST OF ACTIONS
• save energy at home

• Walk, cycle or take public transport

• Eat more greens

• Consider your travel

• Throw away less food

• Reduce, reuse, repair & recycle

• Change your home’s source of energy

• Switch to an electric vehicle

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Q and A

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THANK YOU

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