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Climate Change Narrative Report

The Greenhouse Effect is a naturally occurring process in our planet to make it

conducive for living. This greenhouse effect is good to our planet but too much is
dangerous. Due to human activities, greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere.
This results in the enhanced greenhouse effect which keeps more heat from sun rays into
the atmosphere leading to higher global temperatures. In the seminar, there was graphic
shown that the atmospheric carbon dioxide is at its highest level in human history. Natural
climate variability, represented by the changing historical levels of CO2 (but still within
stable limits, noted) and human activities as shown by the sudden spike in CO2 emissions
caused by burning of fossil fuels.

It was mention in the presentation that a change of climate which is attributed

directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global
atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over
comparable time periods. The UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change) is an international environmental treaty negotiated in the Earth Summit
in Rio Janeiro from June 3-14, 1992, then entered into force on March 21, 1994. It was
developed to address the problem of climate change. The primary sources of the
greenhouse effect is Carbon dioxide (transportation, fossil fuel combustion, coal and
crude oil), Methane (agriculture, natural gas system, landfills), Nitrous oxide (cars,
manufacturing, agricultural soil management), Perflourocarbons (aluminium production)
and sulfur hexafluoride (electrical transmission, magnesium production).
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In the Philippines, Energy is about 55% contributing to greenhouse effect. Our

country may contribute less greenhouse effect than China and U.S. The energy trapped
by man-made global warming pollution is now equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima
atomic bombs per day according to James Hansen, a former Director, Nasa Goddard
Institute for space studies.

Nowadays, we also feel the effect of climate change as it really observable today. We
now feel an intense increase in temperature, sea level rise, Change in precipitation
(causes floods) and extreme weather. And this climate change impacts foods (falling
crops yields in many areas), water (small mountain glaciers disappear- water supplies
threatened in several areas, sea level rise threatens major cities), Ecosystem (Extensive
damage to coral reefs, rising number of species face extinction), extreme weather events
(Rising intensity of storms, forest fires, droughts, flooding)

In the sea level rise, 93% of the extra heat trapped by manmade global warming pollution
goes into the Ocean, noted in the presentation. The tendency is that when warm water
touches the glacier its will melt the glacier and will cause a major rise of sea level.
According to NASA, about 3.42 mm per year of sea level is increasing. There was a major
scientific evidence of dramatic impacts of climate change on coastlines and people.
Recently at least five reef islands in the remote Solomon Islands have been lost
completely to sea-level rise and coastal erosion, and a further six islands have been
severely eroded. These islands lost to the sea range in size from one to five hectares.
They supported dense tropical vegetation that was at least 300 years old. Nuatambu
Island, home to 25 families, has lost more than half of its habitable area, with 11 houses
washed into the sea since 2011.
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Sea level in the Philippines is projected to rise two to three times faster than the global
average. With a 1 meter sea level rise. The Senator also noted a study by the University
of the Philippines Los Baos (UPLB) Climate Change Program which showed that a total
of 167,290 hectares of seashore land in 171 coastal towns under 10 provinces will go
underwater due to a one-meter sea level rise. The 10 provinces are Cagayan, Palawan,
Iloilo, Zamboanga Sibugay, Camarines Sur, Negros Occidental, Capiz, Bohol, Tawi-Tawi
and Sulu. At least 13.6 million Filipinos may have to relocate to higher elevations due to
sea level rise. Kiribati is the first nation to purchase land in another country to house its
climate refugees.

In change in precipitation, there will be an increase of temperature at .9 to 1.1 degree

celcius at year 2020. 109 to 2.2 degree celcius at year 2050. In the data shown, in year
2020 +0.4 to +43.1% icreased wet season precipitation. In year 2050 about +0.7 to
+63.5% increase wet season precipitation.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the Earths water cycle intensifies even more
thus resulting to Super Typhoon Yolanda. The worst El- Nio in 15 years results an 85%
of PH to be affected by drought by march, 32 provinces forecasted to be affected by a 4-
month dry spell. The same extra heat that evaporates more water from the ocean,
causing bigger downpours and floods pulls moisture even more quickly from the soil,
causing longer and deeper droughts.