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Global Warming and Greenhouse Gas Questions

1. From your class notes, the video, the EPA's Global Warming Kids Site, while reading news articles, from the textbook assignment, from Greenhouse Gas Online, Early Warning Signs, and EPA Global Warming Site - Connecticut Impacts, take notes to help you answer the following questions.

2. Go to the Connecticut Climate Change site at http://www.ctclimatechange.com/WhatCanIDo.html and calculate your "Carbon Footprint". Be sure to register so you can go back later if you have to find more information about your family's energy use. When you have calculated an accurate Carbon Footprint, print the results page and put it in your notebook.

 

1. What are the greenhouse gasses? Where do they come from? How much have we increased these gasses over natural levels?

 

 

 

 

2.  How do greenhouse gasses trap heat in the atmosphere?

 

 

 

 

3. What evidence is there that global warming has started or will occur?

 

 

 

4.  How much is the temperature expected to increase?

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.1 What are the possible effects of global warming worldwide?   

 

5.2 What are the possible effects of global warming on Connecticut's climate?

 

5.3 What are the possible effects of global warming on the health of the people of Connecticut?

 

 

5.4 What are the possible effects of global warming on Connecticut's coast?

 

 

5.5 What are the possible effects of global warming on Connecticuts water resources?

 

5.6 What are the possible effects of global warming on Connecticuts agriculture?

 

<5.5 What are the possible effects of global warming on Connecticuts forests?

 

 

5.5 What are the possible effects of global warming on Connecticuts economy?

 

6.1 THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What can we do as a society to slow global warming?

 

 

6.2 What can you do as an individual? List 20 ways you add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere today. Briefly describe how you can lower 5 of them.

 

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