KES Green Day Friday 23rd March

Goedgedacht Project

Summer Camp

Shoe Box Appeal

Whole School Green Day -

Printer cartridge recycling

'Green promise' by all members of the school

Football competition

Junior House Disco: St Mark's School pupils

Third Year French Exchange: Home leg

Advanced Economics

Choir

Geography Club

Shirley Reading Scheme

Technology Club

23rd March

Let the Olympic Games begin!

MFL Olympic Quiz! Homework

revision

The weekend!

1 why should I be green

2 what could happen

3 what can I do

Stern Report 2006

Graph of global temperature increase

Graph of global temperature increase

Graph of population increase

It is certain that increased greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and from land use change lead to a warming of climate, and it is very likely that these green house gases are the dominant cause of the global warming that has been taking place over the last 50 years. Whilst the extent of climate change is often expressed in a single figure – global temperature – the effects of climate change (such as temperature, precipitation and the frequency of extreme weather events) will vary greatly from place to place.

If current trends continue, we will raise atmospheric CO2 concentrations to double pre-industrial levels during this century. That will probably be enough to raise global temperatures by around 2°C to 5°C

People are causing the change by burning nature's vast stores of coal, oil and natural gas. This releases billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year

Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada's Inuit see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost. The shantytown dwellers of Latin America and Southern Asia see it in lethal storms and floods. Europeans see it in disappearing glaciers, forest fires and fatal heat waves.

Thermal expansion of the oceans, combined with melting ice on land, is also raising sea levels. In this century, human activity could trigger an irreversible melting of the Greenland ice sheet and Antarctic glaciers. This would condemn the world to a rise in sea level of six metres - enough to flood land occupied by billions of people.

2 what could happen

fuel

Water

population

transport

food

•Climate change — Global warming • Global dimming • Fossil fuels • Sea level rise • Greenhouse gas • Ocean acidification • Shutdown of thermohaline circulation • Environmental impact of the

coal industry

•Conservation — Species extinction • Pollinator decline • Coral bleaching • Holocene extinction • Invasive species • Poaching • Endangered species

•Energy — Energy conservation • Renewable energy • Efficient energy use • Renewable energy commercialization • Environmental impact of the coal industry

•Environmental degradation — Eutrophication • Habitat destruction • Invasive species

•Environmental health — Air quality • Asthma • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Electromagnetic fields • Electromagnetic radiation and health • Indoor air quality • Lead poisoning •

Sick Building Syndrome

•Genetic engineering — Genetic pollution • Genetically modified food controversies

•Intensive farming — Overgrazing • Irrigation • Monoculture • Environmental effects of meat production • Slash and burn • Pesticide drift • Plasticulture

•Land degradation — Land pollution • Desertification

Soil — Soil conservation • Soil erosion • Soil contamination • Soil salination

•Land use — Urban sprawl • Habitat fragmentation • Habitat destruction

•Nanotechnology — Nanotoxicology • Nanopollution

•Nuclear issues — Nuclear fallout • Nuclear meltdown • Nuclear power • Nuclear weapons • Nuclear and radiation accidents • Nuclear safety • High-level radioactive waste management.

•Overpopulation — Burial • Water crisis • Overpopulation in companion animals • Tragedy of the commons

•Ozone depletion — CFC

•Pollution — Environmental impact of the coal industry • Nonpoint source pollution • Point source pollution • Light pollution • Noise pollution • Visual pollution

Water pollution — Environmental impact of the coal industry • Acid rain • Eutrophication • Marine pollution • Ocean dumping • Oil spills • Thermal pollution • Urban runoff •

Air pollution — Environmental impact of the coal industry • Smog • Tropospheric ozone • Indoor air quality • Volatile organic compound • Particulate matter

•Reservoirs — Environmental impacts of reservoirs

•Resource depletion — Exploitation of natural resources • Overdrafting

Consumerism — Consumer capitalism • Planned obsolescence • Over-consumption

Fishing — Blast fishing • Bottom trawling • Cyanide fishing • Ghost nets • Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing • Overfishing • Shark finning • Whaling

Logging — Clearcutting • Deforestation • Illegal logging

Mining — Acid mine drainage • Hydraulic fracturing • Mountaintop removal mining • Slurry impoundments

•Toxins — Chlorofluorocarbons • DDT • Endocrine disruptors • Dioxin • Toxic heavy metals • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Herbicides • Pesticides • Toxic waste • PCB •

Bioaccumulation • Biomagnification

•Waste — Electronic waste • Litter • Waste disposal incidents • Marine debris • Medical waste • Landfill • Leachate • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Incineration • Great Pacific

Garbage Patch

Water crisis • Marine debris • Microplastics

• Ocean acidification • Ship pollution •

Wastewater • Fish kill • Algal bloom •

Mercury in fish

If current trends continue, we will raise atmospheric CO2 concentrations to double pre-industrial levels during this century. That will probably be enough to raise global temperatures by around 2°C to 5°C

People are causing the change by burning nature's vast stores of coal, oil and natural gas. This releases billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year

Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada's Inuit see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost. The shantytown dwellers of Latin America and Southern Asia see it in lethal storms and floods. Europeans see it in disappearing glaciers, forest fires and fatal heat waves.

Thermal expansion of the oceans, combined with melting ice on land, is also raising sea levels. In this century, human activity could trigger an irreversible melting of the Greenland ice sheet and Antarctic glaciers. This would

condemn the world to a rise in sea level of six metres - enough to flood land

occupied by billions of people.

Current sea levels

Increase in sea levels of 6m

Hosepipe ban to be imposed in drought-hit parts of UK

Drought order extension request

Will droughts hit crisp production in England?

Drought: a gardening survival guide for a dry season

Drought and oil price rise set to drive inflation

Drought could lead to a surge in food price

Southern Water has applied for an emergency drought permit Water levels in the UK's reservoirs, rivers and streams are dropping Britain faces worst drought for more than 30 years

Water is a natural resource

We use too much of it

We do NOT have a “human”

right to it.

3 what can I do

As rivers run dry right across the country - solutions:

1. The water companies tell us we mustn't spend more than FOUR minutes in the

shower - take egg-timers into the shower

2. Turn off tap while brushing teeth.

3. Calls for national grid for water.

21-2-12

National grid for water How big a pipeline? Starting and ending where? How often would it need to operate? Who would pay?

Greater London alone would need a pipe the capacity of the Thames flowing all day - every day to meet its current water needs

As rivers run dry right across the country - solutions:

1. The water companies tell us we mustn't spend more than FOUR minutes in the

shower - take egg-timers into the shower

2. Turn off tap while brushing teeth.

3. Calls for national grid for water.

21-2-12

KES Green Day Friday 23rd March

1976

KES Green Day Friday 23rd March

I turn on the tap and the water flows.

Don’t know where it comes from,

Don’t know where it goes,

But it’s clean and clear and it never

runs short,

So I never ever give it a second thought.