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Globalwarmingppt 111202175124 Phpapp01
Globalwarmingppt 111202175124 Phpapp01
Jones
noun
an increase in the average
temperature of the earth's
atmosphere and oceans, especially
a sustained increase sufficient to
cause climatic change.
definitions
Global Warming
Greenhouse Gas
The Greenhouse Effect
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC)
Tradable Pollution Quotas
Kyoto Protocol
WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?
• 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize
• Former Vice
President of
the United
States
pro / con
The big debate is political:
Global warming's harmful potential has
been proved; now we must prevent it
from getting worse.
OR
The evidence is inconclusive; trying to
prevent global warming could destroy
the economy.
Who is responsible for
slowing global
warming, and at what
cost?
Industrialization is the
primary cause of
global warming.
Are alternative sources
of energy the answer?
The Kyoto Protocol –
effective or not?
Industries should
cut greenhouse
gas emissions
now.
What are the costs of
slowing global
warming?
Can you have
economic
growth and
protect the
earth at the
same time?
Emissions
quota trading
Will it
work?
Is unlimited
economic growth
really desirable?
practice debate
Topic 1:
Industrial growth
should be slowed or
limited in order to
curb global warming.
Topic 2:
Do newly-developed
economies, like India
and China, have a right
to increase their
industrial emissions?
Something to think about:
• Climate change may just be too big
and too vague a problem for
people to want to invest in trying to
solve. People like to fund things
they know will work.
• It will be the political process and
fear of the unknown that will
generate the needed response by
developed countries to mitigate
carbon emissions worldwide, if
this response is generated at all.
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