What should I put in a Powerpoint presentation about global warming?

Question

Please add reasons why should I put them on. I need at least 10 slides.

By the way, IT IS NOT A DEBATE!!!

Answer 1

Global Warming Art has a lot of graphs, charts, diagrams and pictures that can be used - http://www.globalwarmingart.com/

Be sure to include the 'hockey stick graph'. One showing the rise in temperatures, also one showing the rise in CO2 levels so the link between the two can be illustrated.

Pictures of receding glaciers are a good way to show the effects of global warming - you'll find some on the above website.

Check some of the pages on Wikipedia as well, the graphics there can normally be reproduced without needing permission.

Answer 2

Apple trees


I WOULD BUY A TREE – IF IT WAS POSSIBLE ON ITUNES


I am a Norwegian citizen and therefore an inhabitant on the planet earth. Last night I saw the disturbing documentary "An Inconvenient truth" with Al Gore. The message of the film has already been clear to many of us, but nevertheless it's frightening when presented in such an educational manner.


I see myself as a fairly conscientious consumer but I still fear that we are coming up short. I am married with two children, and nothing would be more painful than knowing that we had a chance to alter our future but did nothing.

Throughout the years I have seen a number of haphazard attempts to act, but none of them has had quite the impact on the public as they should. Maybe the case that they where presented by a bunch of longhaired, pot-smoking hippies had something to do with it, what do I know?

But anyway the reason for me trying to communicate this to the world (or even better, Steve Jobs at Apple), is quite brilliant if you don't mind me saying so. I believe that if Steve Jobs runs across this idea somewhere on the web, he would really grab on to it.
So therefore it is important that this idea is forwarded to as many as possible. Let the internet do what it's supposed to do; Get good information across!

THE CONCEPT – " Apple-trees "


The concept is this: On Apple's outstanding internet store, ITunes you set up the possibility to buy an "Apple-tree". This will be a non-profit project where the income goes to funding the project itself, aside from a small handling charge. (I know that this sounds bad for a commercial enterprise, but I predict that this will really establish Apple as an environmentally conscious company.)


An "Apple-tree" is an audio- and/or a video-file where (hopefully!) Al Gore will thank you for buying an "Apple-tree". He will then explain to you that by buying an "Apple-tree" you are actually buying endangered rainforests in the tropical belt around the world, which by itself is not enough to save the world but is an important contribution. Then he will give you a new tip with every purchase of an "Apple-tree", of what you can do yourself to give the earth the upper hand in the battle against oblivion. There are several enterprises today that are planting or protecting the rainforest, so Apple would mainly be the front-end marketing arm.



I predict that with your Apple's impact on society, and how the conscientious consumers want to participate; this would be a way of getting control over the situation. In the near future people would meet at work, in school, in the neighbourhood and at home to compare the number of trees they have "planted".



This is good brand-building. Apple will make even more money while you are saving the planet.



Now, doesn't that sound cool?

Dag Skaug

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Answer 3

Be sure to include the graph in the source. I think it is the #1 most important slide you could use. And it is undisputed. Nobody, not any oil company, not George Bush, not anybody, disputes the accuracy of the graph. They might disagree with some the the descriptive captions in it, but the shape of the line and the carbon dioxide levels it shows are 100% accepted by everybody.

Answer 4

I think I'd try to zero in on one aspect of the issue. You could do a whole presentation just based on the research of Stephen Pacala & Robert Socolow. They are Co-Directors of The Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University, and have developed a strategy built around the implementation of "stabilization wedges," which lower the angle of the line representing carbon-emissions growth and together would reduce CO2 emissions enough to stabilize the carbon concentration in the atmosphere. To understand the concept and get plenty of material for your presentation, check the links below. Good luck.

Answer 5

Put in a color chart with the amount of heat absorbed by each color. Do an experiment with a spotlight and colored chips or disks of metal. See if the chart is correct. post your results.

Then ask why people install BLACK ROOFS?

Ask why we pave the EArth with BLACK ASPHALT?

Answer 6

I recently had to do a presentation on this. Make sure to have things on the ice caps and how it's effecting the polar bears and many other people and animals. Google it!!

Answer 7

You should be showing that it isn't true and for god sake don't show the hockey graph which has been discredited out of existence as it is a complete fallacy

Answer 8

Show lots of temperature graphs. Those are alarming and they get the facts across quickly. Here are some websites with them.
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Glacier_Mass_Balance_Map_png http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cires.colorado.edu/~maurerj/scatterometry/glacier_mass_balance_graph.gif&imgrefurl=http://cires.colorado.edu/~maurerj/scatterometry/cryosphere_importance.htm&h=392&w=562&sz=40&hl=en&start=8&sig2=ahsMRk7-SKmEYmjw-5-Exw&tbnid=kSOAlPBMdVWXrM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=133&ei=NTRORpmTIYHkgAOO5oCqDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Daverage%2Bglacier%2Bthickness%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den

Hope this helps...

Answer 9

Show record cold temps and snow ammount from this past winter.

Answer 10

You should NOT be using computers and A/V equipment!!
They use electricity which is generated by burning coal. Use hand puppets instead. HTH