01. Interview

Our Question: a) Ask ten people what they think about: 1.The climate change 2.The possible consequences for your country – and take note of the answers. b) What do yout think about these answers?

02. Search the local newspapers of your country for articles about climate change.

Our Question: a) What kind of direct problems have been mentioned? b) What solutions have been proposed? c) What priority have these reports about climate change been given in the newspapers in your country? d) Which headline caught your eye and impressed you the most? Explain the reason why. e) Which headline would you give an article about climat change?

03. The topic of climate change arouses a number of strong emotions in people.

Our Question: a) Write down your emotional feelings for the words “anger, responsibility, hope and indifference” in connection with the topic of climate change. b) Which kind of emotion do you feel most strongly in connection with the topic of climate change? (This does not have to be one of the four mentioned above). Explain the reasons why.

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Our Answer: I think that the strange and quick climate change is all because of global warming . As lots of cars and factories are being made on this materialistic world . So because of the smokes it is leading to the strange climate that we are witnessing now. .........Yangkyi( XI Sc.A) The change in the climate is resposible for the natural calamities that we are witnessing now a days in different parts of the world . whether one believes in it or not in another case , but i really do feel thats the only reason if we want to rate , then it causing the disaster will be very high . We just cannot be ignorant . we must wake up...... Ngodup( science teacher) ACcording to me what ever the above two persons have said is absolutely correct , we must wake up .. Education seems to be the only possible means to rescue our earth from this great danger . So let us all study hard and work for peace and prosperity of our planet Dharamsala is located in the north of India, in the state of Himachal Pradesh. It is nestled in high wooded hills that hint in muted tones of the majesty of the Himalayas beyond. The Himalayas are the world's greatest repositories of snow and ice outside of the polar regions, and yet they may melt away in just 20 to 30 years, leaving more than a billion people desperately short of water.The Himalayas–Hindu Kush and nearby mountains, along with the high-elevation Tibetan Plateau that spans 1.6 million square kilometers, are the water towers of Asia and feed its great rivers – the Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, Salween, Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra. Sometimes referred to as Earth's "third pole", the snow and ice in the region provide the largest river run-off from any single location in the world. Data from the International Commission on Snow and Ice in Kathmandu, Nepal reveal that the Himalayan glaciers are shrinking faster than anywhere else and could totally disappear by 2035. Snowfall is also in sharp decline in much of the region, Kennel said. This region has been frozen for hundreds of thousands of years and the incredibly rapid meltdown is the result of three converging factors, he explained. Like the Arctic, temperatures in this cold part of the world are climbing far more rapidly than elsewhere. Over the past three decades, the average temperature has increased by almost 1 degree Celsius, and Chinese climate scientists predict a further temperature rise of between 2.0 to 2.6 degrees Celsius by 2050. Some of this temperature rise is due to soot, otherwise known as black carbon, from burning fossil fuels - especially diesel and coal - as well as burning wood and other biomass. Black carbon heats the region in two ways. The dark particles absorb heat from the sun and collect at mountain latitudes. Secondly, this soot coats the snow, turning it grey and reducing the snow's albedo - ability to reflect sunlight - accelerating the melt.

02. Search the local newspapers of your country for articles about climate change.

Our Answer: 18/7/2009. ClLIMBDOWN ON 2 DEGREE CELSIUS CLAUSE DONE AS A LAST RESORT : India's chief climate change negotiator Shyam Saran spoke exclusivley to Times of India ( one of india's news paper ) as he tried to explain the Indian position on the crucial negotiations which will intensify in the long run upto the Copenhagen 15 . While the 2 degree is a compromise , PM''s special envoy Shyam Saran told journalists in Italy , " We do not regard this as an arithemetic target ; we regard this as a political decision because there is great deal of uncertainty with respect to what would be actual rise in temperature , what would be the consequences of the that rise of temperature . It's the compromise on 2 degree C" that the former negotiator ,Surya Sethi has challenged , saying it would hinder India's development . So this news about india compromising and its negotiator saying that they regard it as a political decision and not a arithemetic target in my opinion is really a sad news . Developing countries like India , instead of always blaming the westerners needs to keep in check their own pollution rates and must deal with it firmly . By doing that they can easily pressurise the westerners to clamp down their carbon emmision . Lets not always keep on fighting for who gets the bigger bitter cake .

03. The topic of climate change arouses a number of strong emotions in people.

Our Answer: For me when this topic of climate change arises , i become motivated to do something to combat this problem . And for that i try y best to educate people around me about it . This issue really is a very critical one and all of us needs to raise our hands together to start working on the issue.

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