CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL WARMING, AND OZONE DEPLETION

• 1850: 285 ppm
• 2009: 388 ppm
• Over 450 ppm is tipping point
• 350 ppm as intermediate goal
• perennials like potato, sweet potato, chives. Avocado, pepper mint, ginger, broccoli, black pepper pineapple
• Perennials - plants fast growing
• Kyoto Protocol -was adopted in 1997 to decrease the consumption of greenhouse gases
• Chemists Rowland and Molina - banning CFC
• Former Uses of CFCs

  1. Coolants in air conditioners and refrigerators
  2. Propellants in aerosol cans
  3. Cleaning solutions for electronic parts
  4. Fumigants
  5. Bubbles in plastic packing foam
• Set your water heater no higher than 49 degree celcius
• Project Climate change Effects will last for at least 1,000 years
• Support Global Warming

  Sea level rise in this century 4 to 8 inches
• 2 °C - 3.6 F
• 3 °C - 5.4 F
• 4 °C - 7.2 F
• 4 °C - 650 ppm
• 2 °C - 450 ppm
• 3 °C - 550 ppm