Climate change
- Created by: Amy Woodhams
- Created on: 16-04-13 16:05
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- Climate Change
- What was the Kyoto Protocol?
- A scheme set up for industrialised countries to cut their carbon emmissions
- Burning fossil fuels increases the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
- build-up of gasses could impact the global temperature
- The gases allow more of the sun's rays to enter the atmosphere
- absorb solar radiation when it is reflected back which traps heat.
- CFC
- powerful greenhouse gas
- deplete ozone layer
- banned in many countries
- powerful greenhouse gas
- effects
- temperatures could rise by 5.8degreesC in 100 years
- melt icecaps and glaciers
- affect weather patterns
- solutions
- need to meet the increased demand for engergy
- without burning fossil fules
- renewable energy/ sustainable energy
- preservation & conservation
- need to meet the increased demand for engergy
- What was the Kyoto Protocol?
- droughts/ floods/ hurricanes
- affect weather patterns
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