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For decades, polar bears and melting ice were the face of climate change. Now, however, the heat-trapping blanket that we’ve wrapped around our planet by burning fossil fuels has begun to do much more harm than just melt ice and starve polar bears.

Wildfires have decimated parts of Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Deadly floods struck the  subways  of Zhengzhou and London. Climate change is wreaking havoc on millions of people around the world. 

Images via  Dino Adventure ,  Jack Dredd/Shutterstock , and  A Lesik .

However, many people are still confused about the root cause of these extreme weather events and how we can limit them by switching from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy. 

In America, for instance, the majority of citizens accept that pollution from cars, trucks, and factories is warming the planet and causing drastic shifts in weather patterns – but there are still many people who believe that increasingly severe wildfires, drought, and flooding are merely  evidence  of land mismanagement, biblical prophecy, or natural cycles. 

Visual images have a critically important role to play in engaging and informing the public about the problem and its solutions. That’s, in part, because the human brain is incredibly  fast and efficient  at processing visual information, which aids learning.

But it’s also because, for climate change in particular, visual imagery adds concrete detail and context to an issue that often feels distant in time and space. 

Strong visuals of the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change can give the issue meaning and help people understand how and why it’s affecting our daily lives and what we can do about it. 

But, how can you tell which images are most effective?

Know your audience

A project called Climate Visuals has identified  seven principles  for effective climate change images, and the first one is “understanding your audience.” Engaging people on climate must begin with the recognition that every person has different psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting – or not acting – to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

Images via  Ringo H W Chiu/AP/Shutterstock  and  Isopix/Shutterstock .

Within the United States, for instance, social scientists have identified “ Global Warming’s Six Americas ” – six unique audiences within the American public that each respond to the issue in their own distinct way.*

• The Alarmed:  This group, which makes up 26% of the public, are convinced that global warming is happening, caused by humans, and an urgent threat, and they’re strongly supportive of aggressive policies designed to reign in carbon pollution. 
• The Concerned:  This group, which makes up 29% of the public, also knows global warming is real and caused by human activities, but they tend to believe that severe impacts are not yet “here and now.” 
• The Cautious:  This group, which makes up 19% of the population, are the fence-sitters. They’re unsure whether the temperatures are rising or not, what’s causing it if they are, or how serious global heating may be. 
• The Disengaged:  This group, which makes up 6% of the public, know little about the problem as they rarely or never hear or talk about it. 
• The Doubtful:  This group, which makes up 12% of the public, doesn’t think the planet is warming or if it is, that the changes are natural and the risk is greatly exaggerated. 
• The Dismissive:  This group, which makes up 8% of the public, is convinced that the climate is  not  changing, and most endorse conspiracy theories. For example, they may believe that climate change is a hoax.

(See which group you fall into by taking a four-question quiz  here .)

Researchers haven’t yet tested which images resonate most within each group, but existing surveys and experiments provide insights into what sort of imagery might engage a diverse range of audiences.

Go beyond stock

Images via  Ringo H W Chiu/AP/Shutterstock ,  Isopix/Shutterstock , and  N a than Howard/AP/Shutterstock .

Climate Visuals recommends showing real people rather than staged photos. In discussion groups that explored the cognitive and emotional impacts of different photos, “authentic” images were preferred over those that were staged, which were deemed less credible and trustworthy.

Images via  Yorgos Karahalis/AP/Shutterstock ,  LNP/Shutterstock , and  Shafkat Anowar/AP/Shutterstock .

Expand the narrative

Climate Visuals also advises telling new stories. Researchers found that conventional images that identify the causes of climate change (think smokestacks and deforestation) or the impacts (the familiar polar bear or melting ice) were easily understood and positively rated.

But, some discussion group participants were more interested in less familiar images that helped tell new stories about climate change. 

Images via  Muntaka Chasant/Shutterstock ,  Andre Penner/AP/Shutterstock ,  Nathan Howard/AP/Shutterstock , and  DEAN LEWINS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock .

Don’ t shame individuals

Fighting climate change requires changing the behavior of hundreds of countries, millions of companies, and billions of people. The most effective solutions don’t require each of us to rethink every meal, trip, and purchase – they require collective actions by corporations, governments, and institutions. 

With that in mind, you might represent positive change by choosing an image of, say, a clean and efficient public transportation system, or an urban area with pedestrian- and bike-friendly designs (as opposed to a single individual using a metal straw, for example).

Images via  Egor_Kulinich ,  Roberto Westbrook / Blend Images , and  Rachid Jalayanadeja .

On the flip side, if you want to call out problematic behaviors – like our over-reliance on cars, for instance – you might show a congested highway rather than a single driver.

Tap into emotions (but carefully)

Confronting the devastation wrought by floods and wildfires can move people to action, but it can also overwhelm them. To avoid creating feelings of hopelessness, Climate Visuals recommends coupling emotional or disturbing images with something positive, like a concrete behavioral action people can take or images of survivors.

Images via  Action Press/Shutterstock ,  Noah Berger/AP/Shutterstock ,  Noah Berger/AP/Shutterstock , and  Mike Eliason/AP/Shutterstock .

A final principle suggests that public protest imagery should be used with caution, as people are drawn more to imagery that they identify with, and few people identify as environmental activists, although it’s vital for more people to join the climate movement.

But, there are many other actions besides street protests that people can take, including having a conversation with a neighbor or sharing an article with a friend.

The more people understand the importance of working together to improve the health and beauty of our planet, the more likely it is to happen. Picture that.

This article first appeared on  Shutterstock.com  and is republished with permission.

Jennifer R. Marlon, Ph.D., is a research scientist at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication , publisher of this site and organization that led the research cited* above.

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Photos show a climate change crisis unfolding—and hope for the future

Melting ice, wildfires, heat waves, floods: These images show life in a warming world, and solutions to address it.

As the UN’s global climate change conference—COP26—approaches, ever-more-extreme weather has shown us climate change is here. Yet COVID-19 and the actions taken to control it have also shown us that cooperation can prompt dramatic global change.

Sometimes, all it takes is one photo to spark that action. Sometimes, it's a collection of vignettes that show us what is at stake, and more importantly, inspire ideas of what we can do about it. In short, pictures can change the world. And as our world comes to terms with the reality of climate change, never has that been more needed.

Some of these images offer an instant visual punch to the gut: a dying coral outcrop on the Great Barrier Reef, for instance, juxtaposed with an older photo of how vibrant coral can be. Some of the images inspire in their ability to show that change is not only possible, it is happening—and that we have the ingenuity and the skill to make a real difference.  

But amidst these odds, there is hope. Nature is resilient, and given the chance, it can recover, if we have the courage to make it happen.

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Enduring and surviving the climate crisis – in pictures

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Together, Climate Visuals and TED Countdown are releasing 100 photographs that depict climate solutions alongside the global impact of the climate crisis. The images were selected from more than 5,500 shots taken by professionals and amateurs from more than 150 countries. The images will be freely available to key groups communicating on climate – the editorial media, educators, campaigns and non-profit groups – via the Climate Visuals library.

The chosen images needed to be illustrative and powerful, and to communicate positive climate solutions in five key areas: energy, transport, materials, food and nature.

The collection will be displayed at the TED Countdown Summit in Edinburgh from 12-15 October and will also feature during the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow from 1-12 November.

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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• To be able to define and understand the process of Global Warming.
• Be able to describe the effects of Global Warming on a global and local scale.
• Be able to recognise how the effects of Global Warming can be reduced.

What is�Global Warming ?

Global warming is the increase in the world’s average temperature, believed to be the result from the release of carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels.

This increase in greenhouse gases is causing an increase in the rate of the greenhouse effect .

The Greenhouse�Effect

The earth is warming rather like the inside of a greenhouse. On a basic level the sun’s rays enter the earths atmosphere and are prevented from escaping by the greenhouse gases. This results in higher world temperatures.

In more detail………

Energy from the sun drives the earth's weather and climate, and heats the earth's surface; in turn, the earth radiates energy back into space. Atmospheric greenhouse gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases) trap some of the outgoing energy, retaining heat somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse.�

Without this natural "greenhouse effect," temperatures would be much lower than they are now, and life as known today would not be possible. Instead, thanks to greenhouse gases, the earth's average temperature is a more hospitable 60°F. However, problems may arise when the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases increases. �

What are the�greenhouse gases?

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased nearly 30%, methane concentrations have more than doubled, and nitrous oxide concentrations have risen by about 15%. Why are greenhouse gas concentrations increasing?

Burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are the primary reason for the increased concentration of carbon dioxide.

CFC’s from aerosols, air conditioners, foam packaging and refrigerators most damaging (approx 6%).

Methane is released from decaying organic matter, waste dumps, animal dung, swamps and peat bogs (approx 19%).

Nitrous Oxide is emitted from car exhausts, power stations and agricultural fertiliser (approx 6%).

The major contributor is Carbon Dioxide (approx 64%).

Task 1:The �Greenhouse Effect

Complete your worksheet by cutting and labeling the diagram and answering the questions

Task 2 : Effects of global warming

You are about to see a series of pictures which show some of the effects of global warming.

Draw a rough sketch then write down the effects or titles for the pictures you've drawn

I’m thinking !

What are the consequences of Global Warming?

What are the pictures showing, what are the effects of global warming?

How did�you do?

Hurricanes –extreme weather

Flooding of coastal areas

Desertification

Ice caps melt

Rise in temperatures

Loss of wildlife habitats and species

Sea level rise

Extreme storms

There are also some positive effects of global warming

• Decrease in death and disease
• Healthier, faster growing forests due to excess CO2
• Longer growing seasons
• Warmer temperatures (UK Mediterranean climate!!)
• Plants and shrubs will be able to grow further north and in present desert conditions
• Heavier rainfall in certain locations will give higher agricultural production (Rice in India, Wheat in Africa).

How can Global Warming be reduced?

• Reduce the use of fossil fuels. A major impact would be to find alternatives to coal, oil and gas power stations.
• Afforest areas, trees use up the CO2, reduce deforestation.
• Reduce the reliance on the car (promote shared public transport).
• Try to use energy efficiently (turn off lights and not use as much!).
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
• Careful long term planning to reduce the impact of global warming.
• Global Warming is the increase in global temperatures due to the increased rate of the Greenhouse Effect.
• Greenhouse gases trap the incoming solar radiation, these gases include Carbon Dioxide, CFCs, Methane, Nitrous Oxides and other Halocarbons. These are released by human activity.
• We need the Greenhouse effect to maintain life on earth as we know it…however if we keep adding to the Greenhouse gases there will be many changes.
• Consequences can be negative ( ice caps melt, sea level rise, extreme weather conditions) or positive (more rain in drought areas, longer growing season).

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Dubai’s Extraordinary Flooding: Here’s What to Know

Images of a saturated desert metropolis startled the world, prompting talk of cloud seeding, climate change and designing cities for intensified weather.

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Scenes of flood-ravaged neighborhoods in one of the planet’s driest regions have stunned the world this week. Heavy rains in the United Arab Emirates and Oman submerged cars, clogged highways and killed at least 21 people. Flights out of Dubai’s airport, a major global hub, were severely disrupted.

The downpours weren’t a freak event — forecasters anticipated the storms several days out and issued warnings. But they were certainly unusual. Here’s what to know.

Heavy rain there is rare, but not unheard-of.

On average, the Arabian Peninsula receives a scant few inches of rain a year, although scientists have found that a sizable chunk of that precipitation falls in infrequent but severe bursts, not as periodic showers.

U.A.E. officials said the 24-hour rain total on Tuesday was the country’s largest since records there began in 1949 . But parts of the nation had experienced an earlier round of thunderstorms just last month.

Oman, with its coastline on the Arabian Sea, is also vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Past storms there have brought torrential rain, powerful winds and mudslides, causing extensive damage.

Global warming is projected to intensify downpours.

Stronger storms are a key consequence of human-caused global warming. As the atmosphere gets hotter, it can hold more moisture, which can eventually make its way down to the earth as rain or snow.

But that doesn’t mean rainfall patterns are changing in precisely the same way across every corner of the globe.

In their latest assessment of climate research , scientists convened by the United Nations found there wasn’t enough data to have firm conclusions about rainfall trends in the Arabian Peninsula and how climate change was affecting them. The researchers said, however, that if global warming were to be allowed to continue worsening in the coming decades, extreme downpours in the region would quite likely become more intense and more frequent.

The role of cloud seeding isn’t clear.

The U.A.E. has for decades worked to increase rainfall and boost water supplies by seeding clouds. Essentially, this involves shooting particles into clouds to encourage the moisture to gather into larger, heavier droplets, ones that are more likely to fall as rain or snow.

Cloud seeding and other rain-enhancement methods have been tried across the world, including in Australia, China, India, Israel, South Africa and the United States. Studies have found that these operations can, at best, affect precipitation modestly — enough to turn a downpour into a bigger downpour, but probably not a drizzle into a deluge.

Still, experts said pinning down how much seeding might have contributed to this week’s storms would require detailed study.

“In general, it is quite a challenge to assess the impact of seeding,” said Luca Delle Monache, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Delle Monache has been leading efforts to use artificial intelligence to improve the U.A.E.’s rain-enhancement program.

An official with the U.A.E.’s National Center of Meteorology, Omar Al Yazeedi, told news outlets this week that the agency didn’t conduct any seeding during the latest storms. His statements didn’t make clear, however, whether that was also true in the hours or days before.

Mr. Al Yazeedi didn’t respond to emailed questions from The New York Times on Thursday, and Adel Kamal, a spokesman for the center, didn’t immediately have further comment.

Cities in dry places just aren’t designed for floods.

Wherever it happens, flooding isn’t just a matter of how much rain comes down. It’s also about what happens to all that water once it’s on the ground — most critically, in the places people live.

Cities in arid regions often aren’t designed to drain very effectively. In these areas, paved surfaces block rain from seeping into the earth below, forcing it into drainage systems that can easily become overwhelmed.

One recent study of Sharjah , the capital of the third-largest emirate in the U.A.E., found that the city’s rapid growth over the past half century had made it vulnerable to flooding at far lower levels of rain than before.

Omnia Al Desoukie contributed reporting.

Raymond Zhong reports on climate and environmental issues for The Times. More about Raymond Zhong

Beyond Carbon Capture: Using Trees and Forests to Fight Climate Change

Forests and trees are equipped to address countless effects of global warming – if only we effectively make use of them.

Using Trees to Fight Climate Change

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Our solutions to climate change must be far-reaching and multifaceted.

Climate change has taken up a permanent presence in our global discourse. The broad issue is complex, riddled with an assortment of challenges.

Yet in the mainstream, the idea of climate change is regularly oversimplified, and the conversation around this multifaceted topic invariably circles back to one element: carbon.

As the primary contributor to the greenhouse effect and our changing climate, it’s understandable why carbon – and its capture and removal – has become the central character in the climate change narrative. The general thought is, if we can remove carbon from the air, then climate change and its many obvious presentations around the globe will dissipate.

Indeed, it’s not an incorrect assertion. As a global community, we desperately need to reduce our emissions and sequester carbon. Engineered solutions like direct air capture chip away at that goal, and we absolutely need these technological solutions to continue the fight against climate change.

But herein lies the challenge: Emerging technological solutions, while important, only work to serve the single purpose of carbon removal, neglecting the bigger picture.

Approaching climate change solutions with such a narrow focus all but ensures we’ll fail to truly restore the health of this planet we share. And so, our solutions to climate change must be far-reaching and multifaceted: restoring ecosystems, preserving biodiversity and fostering human well-being. Trees, though physically rigid, are flexible in their purpose and equipped to serve a variety of needs.

It’s this versatility that makes trees and forests the most comprehensive way to address climate change. They capture carbon while developing critical habitats for animal species, improving mental and physical health , enhancing water quality and creating green jobs.

Trees are also far more cost-effective than some technological solutions. According to a December 2023 report from McKinsey Sustainability, reforestation and afforestation are currently estimated to cost between $10-$40 per ton of carbon. Comparatively, direct air capture costs about $500-$1,000 per ton. So not only are trees capable of slowing climate change, but they also do it at an affordable price point.

In short, it’s time we stop undervaluing trees.

We need forests, sometimes more than we realize. For example, the health of Pike National Forest in Colorado is intrinsically linked to the quality and security of Denver’s drinking water supply. In 2002, following catastrophic wildfires that raged through nearly 140,000 acres of the Colorado forest, Denver’s municipal drinking water sources were greatly impacted – with some issues persisting . That’s because the forest plays a crucial role in the watershed that helps filter and regulate water supply for millions of people.. As climate change increases both the frequency and severity of wildfires, reforestation is becoming even more critical to our everyday lives.

We know climate change is also intensifying extreme heat in cities all around the world. Researchers believe that in 2019 more than 356,000 deaths across the globe could be attributed to heat. Trees work to address that problem too, by mitigating the urban heat island effect , a phenomenon in which cities that are densely populated with people and pavement experience higher temperatures than surrounding rural areas. Scientists in Europe believe the cooling power of tree cover can literally mean the difference between life and death .

In some parts of the world, climate change can also impact food supply . Warmer temperatures, already detrimental to many crops, also exacerbate water scarcity and pest prevalence. Again, trees work to address these problems as well. Trees serve as a home for more than 80% of land-based animals. Fostering those habitats and a diverse range of wildlife helps control pest populations and limit the damage to crops. At the same time, trees help enhance the infiltration of rainwater in soil and restore groundwater reserves.

Despite the uniquely layered benefits offered by trees and forests, some tree planting pledges have drawn ire from advocates of other forms of climate solutions. A primary criticism of using trees as a nature-based climate solution is the time it takes for a tree to grow large enough to begin sequestering carbon. Though trees don’t instantly start storing huge quantities of carbon, that doesn’t mean they’re inactive. From the moment their roots are laid, trees are hard at work helping correct the wreckage of climate change. Then, once it does reach maturity, a single tree can sequester dozens of pounds of carbon in a year.

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Pike National Forest in Colorado as seen in 2020.

But trees offer something a bit less tangible too. I was fortunate enough to visit the aforementioned Pike National Forest while collaborating with some forest managers on a reforestation project after another damaging wildfire in 2012. Early in the morning, we drove through the forest and up into the mountains. As we came over a crest, the landscape opened up and for miles, all I could see was thousands of young pine trees climbing up towards the sky. This area that’d once been scorched and devastated was seeing the next generation of its forest emerge. We got out of the car, and I’ll never forget the celebration and pride in the eyes of the forest managers. These trees, together forming a budding forest, renewed a feeling of hope. What other climate solution has the capability to reach someone’s spirit on such a profound level?

It’s important to emphasize that progress does not happen in a silo. Though trees and forests are unique in their versatility and scalability, they alone are not the silver bullet to climate change. Ultimately, we need every climate solution available – nature-based and engineered alike – to move the needle.

As so many climate scientists have proclaimed, the fight against climate change is more urgent than ever. In this race against time, every ounce of innovation, every tree and every tool we have are vital in shaping a sustainable future.

Dan Lambe is the CEO of the Arbor Day Foundation.

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