Can you tell

the DIFFERENCE?

Over the past 100 years, the global average temperature has increased

by approximately 0.6 °C

Continue To Rise at a rapid rate

people were always talking about the

weather, but in the 1930s, there was an

unusual turn that old folks began to insist

the weather has changed, meanwhile popular

press began to run articles that claimed

winters really had gotten milder, and

Meteorologists confirmed that a warming

trend was under way.

“ Gaffers who claim that winters were

harder when they were boys are quite

right… weather men have no doubt that

the world at least for the time being is

growing warmer.”

How Global Warming Changes

The World We live In

• The causes of global warming

• How it affects both human & animals

• How we can make a difference

How it effects both

human and animals

Imagine global warming finally takes over our life…

How the coastal area changed in the past decades…

Severe deforestation…

Inundation…

Unexpected heavy snow…

Extreme drought…

Though there’re still many

other events not mentioned,

the fact is that,

human beings are not the only

species threatened by climate

change.

How can we make a difference…

This Earth Hour event has attracted

hundreds of millions of people

turning off their lights for one hour

on the same night across the

planet

This is the

difference

Sydney Harbor

The Bird's Nest in Beijing

Buckingham Palace in London

Sphinx and Pyramids in Egypt

http://www.nrdc.org/youtubecontainer.asp?vid=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG41xDxrzI8&vidType=36

WE ARE RUNNING

OUT OF TIME

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