What is your carbon footprint?

• Calculate your carbon footprint using the ‘Act on CO2’ web site


• Draw a divided bar chart to show your footprint


• Draw a divided bar chart for the national average footprint


• Create a ‘plan’ to begin to reduce your carbon footprint


• Sort the actions by ‘Easiest to do’. Complete the table to show three actions you could take in each of the categories – Home, Appliances and Travel

The business case studies are here.

1953 Storm Surge, SE England

Use the following links for further investigation into the 1953 storm surge.

• BBC weather - The 1953 East Coast Flood
• BBC news - Devastating Power of the 1953 Tide
• 1953 UK Floods

History of climate change and mitigation and adaption

Use this website to complete the climate change timeline.

Use these two sites to add examples onto your mitigation / adaption table:

Adaption to climate change

Mitigation against climate change

Oil sands

To the last drop - video

Guardian video
National Geographic video
The Alberta oil sands
Greenpeace Canada

Gas pathways

Gas pathways into the EU are vital for energy security. Problems in Russia and the former Soviet states threaten this supply.

Nabucco pipeline

South Stream pipeline

Nord Stream pipeline

Russia - Ukraine gas disputes

Russia Today report - Nabucco

Videographic from The Economist

Russia-Ukraine gas dispute report 1 and 2

Urbanisation

Complete the urbanisation maps using this link.

What would a 4C warmer world look like?

In the build up to the Copenhagen Conference in December, the UK Governement has released a new map showing the predicted impacts of a 4oC global temperature increase worldwide. View the map here. The Guardian followed the launch of the map closely.

For more detail, also go to the Met Office site.

Use the map to complete the sheets you have been given.

Energy demand in China and India

A series of links to help with the question on energy demand in China and India.

A summary of a recent report

Wikipedia - world energy resources

Wikipedia - energy policy in India

India's energy dilema

Energy in India over the coming decades

Energy demand and supply in China

China and India energy demand

Stern Review - impacts of climate change

Investigate the Stern Review using the following guidelines:

• What was the Stern review?
• Summarise its findings
• Include a table similar to that on p62 of the text book detailing th epossible effects of temperature rises on life on earth

The whole report is available here, but as it is hundreds of pages long, I suggest looking at the Executive Summary.

The BBC Business pages summarised the findings. Wikipedia also has it's review.

The Guardian newspaper (among others) reported on the release of the review extensively.

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Natural causes of climate change

The impact of volcanoes on climate:

Article from Scientific American

Article from the MetOffice

The impact of solar output on climate:

Independent article

Independent article

Wikipedia

UK energy security

Use the following links to help with your report:

The Energy Security report by Malcolm Wicks MP (just read the Executive Summary)

The Governement response

This entry on the 'Oil Drum' blog

Government energy security research paper (just read the Summary)

A report from IPPR

Guardian article - there are many more similar