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Climate Matters • November 25, 2020

New Presentation: Our Changing Climate

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Climate Central unveils Our Changing Climate —an informative and customizable climate change presentation that meteorologists, journalists, and others can use for educational outreach and/or a personal Climate 101 tool.

The presentation follows a ”Simple, Serious, Solvable” framework, inspired by climate scientist Scott Denning. This allows the presenter to comfortably explain, and the viewers to easily understand, the causes (Simple), impacts (Serious), and solutions (Solvable) of climate change.

Our Changing Climate is a revamped version of our 2016 climate presentation, and includes the following updates and features:

Up-to-date graphics and topics

Local data and graphics

Fully editable slides (add, remove, customize)

Presenter notes, background information, and references for each slide

Supplementary and bonus slides

Download Outline (PDF, 110KB)

Download Full Presentation (PPT, 148MB)

Updated: April 2021

Climate Central is presenting a new outreach and education resource for meteorologists, journalists, and others—a climate change presentation, Our Changing Climate . This 55-slide presentation is a guide through the basics of climate change, outlining its causes, impacts, and solutions. This climate change overview is unique because it includes an array of local graphics from our ever-expanding media library. By providing these local angles, the presenter can demonstrate that climate change is not only happening at a global-scale, but in our backyards.

This presentation was designed to support your climate change storytelling, but can also double as a great Climate 101 tool for journalists or educators who want to understand climate change better. Every slide contains main points along with background information, so people that are interested can learn at their own pace or utilize graphics for their own content.

In addition to those features, it follows the “Simple, Serious, Solvable” framework inspired by Scott Denning, a climate scientist and professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University (and a good friend of the program). These three S’s help create the presentation storyline and outline the causes (Simple), impacts (Serious), and solutions (Solvable) of climate change.

Simple. It is simple—burning fossil fuels is heating up the Earth. This section outlines the well-understood science that goes back to the 1800s, presenting local and global evidence that our climate is warming due to human activities.

Serious. More extreme weather, rising sea levels, and increased health and economic risks—the consequences of climate change. In this section, well, we get serious. Climate change impacts are already being felt around the world, and they will continue to intensify until we cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Solvable. With such a daunting crisis like climate change, it is easy to get wrapped up in the negative impacts. This section explains how we can curb climate change and lists the main pathways and solutions to achieving this goal.

With the rollout of our new climate change presentation, we at Climate Central would value any feedback on this presentation. Feel free to reach out to us about how the presentation worked for you, how your audience reacted, or any ideas or topics you would like to see included.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS & SPECIAL THANKS

Climate Central would like to acknowledge Paul Gross at WDIV-TV in Detroit and the AMS Station Science Committee for the original version of the climate presentation, Climate Change Outreach Presentation , that was created in 2016. We would also like to give special thanks to Scott Denning, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University and a member of our NSF advisory board, for allowing us to use this “Simple, Serious, Solvable” framework in this presentation resource.

SUPPORTING MULTIMEDIA

Global Climate Change

By: Neill Chua & Patrick Moraitis

What is Climate Change?

The gradual increase in the global temperature.
Natural events and human activities are believed to be contributing to an increase in average global temperatures.
This is caused primarily by increases in “greenhouse” gases such as Carbon Dioxide (CO 2 )

Greenhouse Gases

Temperature of the Earth is determined by the balance between the input from energy from the Sun and the reflection of some of this energy back into space
Greenhouse Gases trap some of the heat reflected back to the sun
Massive increase in recent years due to Global Warming

Causes of Climate Change

Burning of Fossil fuels
⅘ of global carbon dioxide emissions come from energy production, transport, and industrial processes
Emissions not equal around the world
More developed countries produce much more
North America, Europe, Asia

Causes of Climate Change cont.

Land Use Changes
Ex: deforestation for the purposes of agriculture, urbanization, or roads
Happens more in developing countries
Most developed countries did this in the industrial revolution

What can be done?

Target major research universities to help find better ways to go into developing cheap and clean energy production, as all economic development is based on increasing energy usage
$1 trillion spent on Iraq war, but only $1 billion going into global warming issues
Increase on developing “Renewable Energy Sources”
Reduce the waste of energy being spent on the development of society

Interactive Data Visualization

Highlights key locations around the world and visualizes how much its current temperature deviates from historical averages or records for the current day
Uses symbols and color to represent data which can be clicked for data summary
Uses up to the minute live data from Weather Underground API
Key locations include:
~50 of thee most populated cities & major world cities
~15 places with the lowest recorded temperatures on earth (-30F & below)
~15 places with the highest recorded temperatures on earth (100F & above)
Our main audience ranges from everyday people who have an interest in Global Climate Change to the expert scientific research community.
We want people to use this project as a springboard to begin engaging with the global warming phenomenon in a subjective environment.
Primarily raw data presented in a digestible way that isn’t biased, allowing people to create their own ideas on this pressing global social issue
Eventually, we want to be able to implement our project to bigger corporations or even the government in helping aid with understanding which areas around the world have the biggest climate change problems.

Data Visualization Iterations

We explored several map libraries, weather data APIs, and more.

You can see our detailed preliminary progress reports here

http://nc-data-visualization.tumblr.com/post/134924457119/final-project-email &
http://patrickmoraitis.blogspot.com/2015/12/data-visualization-post-9-final-project.html

How did we make it?

Cesium, an open-source JS library for 3D maps
Google sheets to store location data and create feeds
Weather Underground API for current temperature and almanac data
Add historical weather data to show long term trends (but this is not as easy/affordable to obtain as current data)
Possibly save multiple days’ worth of data, and show in a different visualization how the weather changes over a period of day and whether that period of time still has a regular deviation.
Add more & refine current locations, but no more than 99 due to API limits
Allow user to enter and retrieve weather data for custom location
Open source to developer community and get expert data & weather scientists involved

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Climate Watch Slide Deck

This Tool is part of Climate Watch within Climate Program . Reach out to Leandro Vigna for more information.

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Need to know the latest trend in emissions, countries climate targets and how the top emitters compare?

The Climate Watch Slide Deck is a PPT deck of 27 curated slides providing answers to the most common climate change questions with data, visualizations and explanations.

We update the slides every two weeks and even sooner if major countries change their commitments. In the Notes section of each slide, we included source links and additional information to help you better interpret the data for messaging.

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