Oral Presentation - Climate Change
The time has come, to take a stand, its for our earth, its for OUR land. The time has come, a fact’s a fact, the heat is on, and there is no turning back.
Our world is under threat and Australia is not doing enough to halt the catastrophic consequences that even a two degree Celsius change in the climate will have not only on humans but also the entire world’s environment and ecosystems as well as the millions of different species that inhabit them. Did you know that if sea levels rise 63cm, 130 million people will be flooded per year due to the low lying islands and coastal communities? That our own Great Barrier Reef is already experiencing bleaching due to the 0.4 degree increase in water temperature? Need I go on?
We need to stand together as a nation and embrace the fact that climate change is real and needs to be laid to rest with the help of the world to ensure the prosperity of our planet for future generations.
Firstly I can’t emphasize enough that climate change IS an increasing problem that the entire world faces although many of us don’t even understand what climate change is. The world naturally produces carbon emissions, as CO2 gas is a key player to the survival of all species. But, by using fossil fuels to make electricity we produce even more carbon emissions than normal which are then released into the atmosphere. The build up of greenhouse gases, which includes carbon dioxide, forms a layer that stops the gases and heat from escaping into space, causing a rise in sea and air temperature. If Australia alone has as much as a 1 to 2 degree Celsius shift in temperature around 30 to 50 species of native flora and fauna can possibly become extinct. The greenhouse skeptics argue that the world’s climate has a spike in temperature every few hundred years. Scientists have taken this into account but the skeptics refuse to accept that the temperatures have never been as high as they are today. Why? Because of all this new and improved technology that
Our world is under threat and Australia is not doing enough to halt the catastrophic consequences that even a two degree Celsius change in the climate will have not only on humans but also the entire world’s environment and ecosystems as well as the millions of different species that inhabit them. Did you know that if sea levels rise 63cm, 130 million people will be flooded per year due to the low lying islands and coastal communities? That our own Great Barrier Reef is already experiencing bleaching due to the 0.4 degree increase in water temperature? Need I go on?
We need to stand together as a nation and embrace the fact that climate change is real and needs to be laid to rest with the help of the world to ensure the prosperity of our planet for future generations.
Firstly I can’t emphasize enough that climate change IS an increasing problem that the entire world faces although many of us don’t even understand what climate change is. The world naturally produces carbon emissions, as CO2 gas is a key player to the survival of all species. But, by using fossil fuels to make electricity we produce even more carbon emissions than normal which are then released into the atmosphere. The build up of greenhouse gases, which includes carbon dioxide, forms a layer that stops the gases and heat from escaping into space, causing a rise in sea and air temperature. If Australia alone has as much as a 1 to 2 degree Celsius shift in temperature around 30 to 50 species of native flora and fauna can possibly become extinct. The greenhouse skeptics argue that the world’s climate has a spike in temperature every few hundred years. Scientists have taken this into account but the skeptics refuse to accept that the temperatures have never been as high as they are today. Why? Because of all this new and improved technology that