Unit7: Climate Change and Natural Disasters:

    Intro:

    Nowadays, climate change is one of the most pressing issues. What with a growing number of natural disasters and and scientific evidence of climate change, politicians have to take a stand on the matter. We will thus try and reflect on the recent natural disasters the US and the UK have been faced with, and consider the climate change debate through various approaches, from governmental disaster-planning to preppers' techniques!

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    Webquest:

    I] NATURAL DISASTERS:

    A) Recent examples of powerful natural disasters in the last few years

    -What is the nickname of the area of the United States where tornadoes are the most frequent? Where is it located?

    Link1, link2, link3

    -What about flooding risks in the US?

    Link1, link2, link3

    -Droughts in the US:

    Link1, link2, link3

    -Wild fires in the US:

    Link1, link2

    -Dangerous weather conditions in the UK:

    Link1, link2

     

     

    B) From Natural disasters to National disasters:

    • Typhoon Haiyan:

    Main facts

    Then and now (BBC News)

    Survivors' stories (BBC News)Typhoon Haiyan disaster response (The Guardian)

    • Hurricane Katrina:

    Main facts (DoSomething.com)

    Extra facts (History.com)

    Hurricane Katrina Controversy

    • Organizations involved in rescue operations:

    NGOs

    Doctors Without Borders

    The Red Cross

    VOA


    II] THE LINK BETWEEN NATURAL DISASTERS AND CLIMATE CHANGE:

    A) Green issues and climate change:

    1-Green issues:

    2-Definitions:

    Global warming

    Climate change

    3-The signs of global warming:

    an interactive map (NASA)

    main facts (EPA.gov)

    10 signs climate change is happening (Discovery.com)

    Timelapse (Time)

    4-The causes of global warming or climate change:

    main facts

    the greenhouse effects (EPA.gov)

    5-From "global warming" to "climate change":

    A useful article

     

    extra link: How are hurricanes named?

    B) The climate change debate:

    1-People who believe climate change is a fact:

    • Browse the Internet for English-speaking celebrities and politicians believing in climate change.
    • WWF
    • Greenpeace
    • UN climate summits: link1, link2, link3

    2-People who do not believe climate change is happening: climate skeptics:

    • Browse the Internet to find out more about them!

    III] DISASTER-PLANNING AND "PREPPERS":


    Go further:

    • General knowledge:

    Earth Day / Earth Overshoot Day link1/ link2

    Find out your carbon footprint!

    • A song raising awareness about climate change:
    • Movies dealing with climate change and the necessity to act:

    An Inconvenient Truth, 2006

    The 11th Hour, 2007

    Home, 2009


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