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?
a.) The climate protecting organisation thinks that we're not doing enough for our climate. But Switzerland has quite a good record in comparison to some other countries.
The main problem is, that the glaciers and the permafrost in our Alps are melting. The glaciers melting leads to a loss of drinking water supply and the production of clean energy with this water decreases as well. the melting of the permafrost is dangerous for the towns and the roads which are in the valleys because they could be hit by falling rocks. Land slides have become a problem, too, with whole mountain sides turning into a mud avalanche. Burying farmland and houses.
b.) We should reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by 20% from 1990 to 2020 and not allow the global warming to raise by more than 2°C. There should be taxes for gas and the taxes for heating fuel and CO2 emissions should be higher.
c.) Unforunately th priority for climate change topics is not the first. There are articles from time to time but we had to search for quite a while until we found something.
d.) An article about an experiment with a huge icecube was very impressive. An icecube which is 730 kilograms heavy has been situated besides to a glacier which is melting quickly. The experment is to show how quickly the glacier is actually melting.
It's impressive to see this and it hopefully catches the attention of the people.
e.) Do you really want to have a green Matterhorn?!