True or False Climate change is not real

True or False? Climate change is not real. https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=zoyi. Ris_-ds

How will climate change affect us? Learning objectives • All of you will learn how to identify climate change impacts • Most of you will learn how to explain the solutions to climate change. • Some of you will learn how to make links between geographical location and climate change.

Climate change the game. Can you survive climate change when a rip in the space time continuum means every roll of the dice is a decade in time so expect fast changes in climate and possible solutions!

1. Cut the scenario cards out and make a pile of them face down. 2. Read out the game guidance. 3. Each select a character to be. 4. Create your game’s random card. 5. Create a totem to represent you on the board. 6. Play the game.

Jake London, UK Synoptic chart and weather specialist Worst possible outcome would be the flooding of the UK. If this happens, he moves back 3 spaces. Ore Lesotho, Southern Africa Survival skills and bushcraft specialist. Worst possible outcome would be the loss of habitat for animals- if this happens, move back three spaces. Ana New Orleans, USA Cooperation specialist, works well with others. Worst possible outcome - ice age, as she is a climate change sceptic. If it happens, add 3 spaces back onto whatever the card says. Siobhan Sydney, Australia Excellent with numbers and patterns. A mathematical specialist. Worst possible outcome - flooding of coastal cities, move back three spaces if this happens.

Game rules 1. Select a character card from the pile and read it carefully. 2. On the spare card you have, suggest one way that climate change could be limited. This should then be put into the pile of scenario cards. Anyone who picks up one of the climate change solution cards written by you moves directly to the next multiple of three. 3. Put the scenario cards to the side of the board and then roll to see who will go first. Each time someone lands on a climate change scenario, they need to pick up a card, read it to the group and then replace it at the bottom of the pile. 4. The first person to ‘survive’ until the nice age wins the game and the prizes!

There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point in the last 800, 000 years. All players move back 2 spaces. There are natural patterns hidden in the patterns of climate change, the mathematicians can predict them to a degree, they move forward 1 space. Rainforest habitats are destroyed by unreliable rainfall and many foodstuffs are unavailable. Survival experts are fine, but everyone else moves back 1 space. London is attempting to adopt the green roof strategy of Copenhagen. Brits move forward a space. Oh no, an Ice Age, any character who is a climate change sceptic moves back 10 spaces. Australian coral reefs are being destroyed by freshwater and bleaching through inadequate sunlight. Aussies move back 2 spaces. How about vertical farming, saving land still producing enough food. Australians are at the forefront of this, so they move forward 2 spaces. Since 1870, global sea levels have risen by about 8 inches. All players living in a country with a coast move back 1 space. American scientists are suggesting putting a blanket over Greenland to limit melting! Americans move for ward two spaces, everyone else forward one. In total, the U. S. emits approximately 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year. 40% of that comes from power plant emissions alone. Characters in North America move back 2 spaces. The extremes of weather affect everyone but weather specialists can read an forecast so they know what to expect. They move forward 2, everyone else moves back 1. Climate change has been linked to more extreme weather, therefore more hurricanes and cyclones. Americans and Aussies are affected, move back 3 spaces. Everyone has started to recycle in North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. These people can move forward 2 spaces. The Uk has spent lots of money on flood defences but the amount of extreme weather still increase, Uk residents move back a space. The lack of rainfall in Lesotho means that they cannot keep up their deal with South Africa so are running out of money to look after the population. Residents move back three spaces. Widespread ocean pollution due to freshwater affects all corners of the globe. All characters move two back. With it’s power, the US government has encouraged all nations to think about climate change and take action, even if it is not following the Kyoto protocol. Cooperative specialists move forward 2, all others move 1 forward. People are having to be made climate change refugees, so survival skills are key. Survivalists move forward 3 spaces. Renewable energies adopted by all countrie agreeing to the Kyoto protocol- all characters move 2 spaces forward except US residents as they are not Kyoto members. The earth’s avergae temperature is rising, so more places are seen as holiday destinations, all characters move 1 space forward.

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The game evaluation. 1. Did you enjoy the game? Why? 2. What were the biggest impacts of climate change in the game? 3. Which solutions do you think were the best? Why? Pick three! 4. Which was the best character to be, why? 5. How would you improve the game if you were to play it again?