Global Warming and our Global Warming and our environmentenvironment

BY: Claire BY: Claire

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What is Global Warming?What is Global Warming?

• Global warming is Global warming is the increasing of the increasing of the temperature the temperature causing drought, causing drought, disease, floods, disease, floods, and lost and lost ecosystems.ecosystems.

What causes Global Warming?What causes Global Warming?

Global warming is caused by human activity.The burning of fossil fuels ( oil, natural gas, and coal)

And most important the Green House Effect

What are the effects of Global What are the effects of Global Warming?Warming?

Fossil Fuels burned in Fossil Fuels burned in cars, trucks,and cars, trucks,and heating homes and heating homes and businesses.businesses.

DeforestationDeforestation

LandfillsLandfills

MiningMining

Industrial ProductionIndustrial Production

Powering factoriesPowering factories

Kyoto ProtocolKyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol The Kyoto Protocol is a document is a document signed by 180 signed by 180 countries at Kyoto, countries at Kyoto, Japan in 1997.Japan in 1997.

It commits to 38 It commits to 38 industrialized industrialized countries to cut countries to cut their emissions of their emissions of Green House Gases.Green House Gases.

What can we do about it?What can we do about it?

REDUCE, REUSE, REDUCE, REUSE, AND RECYCLE!!!AND RECYCLE!!!

Save waterSave water

Decrease the burning Decrease the burning of fossil fuels.of fossil fuels.

Save electricitySave electricity

The world without global Warming.The world without global Warming.