Leaders from around the world recently gathered in Paris to discuss how to reduce carbon emissions. The international community must work together to find solutions that limit the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere and cause climate change. As world leaders work with scientists and economists to reach an agreement, some places are already feeling one of the many negative effects of global warming – sea level rise. Land surface in low-lying island nations, like the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific, is shrinking and flooding regularly. In the US, nearly 40% of the population lives in coastal communities that are at risk of flooding. How high oceans rise around the world largely depends on what we do NOW to limit carbon emissions.
Issue 20 – Sea Level Rise (.pdf)
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- Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Map (NOAA website)
- Sea level rise in US cities for teachers (.docx)
- How the low lying Marshall Islands will be affected (interactive articles): (1) New York Times and (2) CNN
- CNN investigates what two° really means for our planet
- youtube videos showing how Earth and North America will look if ALL the world’s ice melted
- Greenland is melting. Take a look at some of the cool fieldwork scientist are doing!
- Here’s a longer (~1 hour), laboratory based sea level rise lesson plan from the EPA (and other climate change related lessons)!
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