What challenges might our future climate present us with? The climate of the UK appears to be changing as a Investigate the climate of the UK today, including Be able to read a climate graph result of global changes caused by human activity. temperature, rainfall and seasonality, and consider To have a general understanding of the UK why they might change in the future, including climate reference to ocean currents and air masses. To know how the UK climate may change in the future To know what currents are and how they could impact climate To know what air masses are and how they impact climates. Considering the role of human activities in producing Know what greenhouse gases are. carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases and how To know what activities are increasing the they lead to the enhanced greenhouse effect. amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. To know that the greenhouse effect is natural and we would not survive on earth without it. To know that humans are contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect – this is where human produced greenhouse gases are trapping more heat in the earth’s atmosphere. Future climates are likely to present major Consider a range of projections for global To know carbon dioxide concentrations are challenges, to the UK and especially to people in the temperature change and sea level rise, including increasing. developing world. reasons for uncertainty. To understand the impacts of this increase on global temperatures and sea levels e.g. below 550ppm = increase no more than 2°C, sea level rise of 1metre. More that 550ppm = increase of 6°C and major flooding of land meaning billions of people will lose their homes due to sea level rises. To understand why it is difficult to predict what is going to happen to climate in the future. Examine the of possible economic and Economic – wealth and business. environmental impacts of future climate change in Environmental – land, wildlife, vegetation. the UK, and in a named developing country, eg Impacts in the UK can be both positive and Bangladesh. negative. Learn a range of the impacts, (could also use Greenland). Understand the impacts on a poorer country e.g. Bangladesh. Understand why developing countries are more vulnerable.
What challenges might our future climate present us with? The climate of the UK appears to be changing as a result of global changes caused by human activity. Investigate the climate of the UK today, including temperature, rainfall and seasonality, and consider why they might change in the future, including reference to ocean currents and air masses. Be able to read a climate graph To have a general understanding of the UK climate To know how the UK climate may change in the future To know what currents are and how they could impact climate To know what air masses are and how they impact climates. Considering the role of human activities in producing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases and how they lead to the enhanced greenhouse effect. Know what greenhouse gases are. To know what activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. To know that the greenhouse effect is natural and we would not survive on earth without it. To know that humans are contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect – this is where human produced greenhouse gases are trapping more heat in the earth’s atmosphere. Future climates are likely to present major challenges, to the UK and especially to people in the developing world. Consider a range of projections for global temperature change and sea level rise, including reasons for uncertainty. To know carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing. To understand the impacts of this increase on global temperatures and sea levels e.g. below 550ppm = increase no more than 2°C, sea level rise of 1metre. More that 550ppm = increase of 6°C and major flooding of land meaning billions of people will lose their homes due to sea level rises. To understand why it is difficult to predict what is going to happen to climate in the future. Examine the of possible economic and environmental impacts of future climate change in the UK, and in a named developing country, eg Bangladesh. Economic – wealth and business. Environmental – land, wildlife, vegetation. Impacts in the UK can be both positive and negative. Learn a range of the impacts, (could also use Greenland). Understand the impacts on a poorer country e.g. Bangladesh. Understand why developing countries are more vulnerable.
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