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Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are dying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It has become clear that humans have caused most of the past century’s warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than at any time. Climate change encompasses not only rising average temperatures but also extreme weather events, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, rising seas, and a range of other impacts. All of those changes are emerging as humans continue to add heat-trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely on. With concentrations of greenhouse gases rising, Earth’s remaining ice sheets such as Greenland and Antarctica are starting to melt too. That extra water could raise sea levels significantly, and quickly. In addition to sea levels rising, weather can become more extreme. This means more intense major storms, more rain followed by longer and drier droughts — a challenge for growing crops — changes in the ranges in which plants and animals can live, and loss of water supplies that have historically come from glaciers. What will we do — what can we do — to slow this human-caused warming? How will we cope with the changes we’ve already set into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out, the fate of the Earth as we know it — coasts, forests, farms, and snow-capped mountains — hangs in the balance.

The Global Warming template consists of four bright and modern slides. The first slide represents the globe with various factories and enterprises. Modern infographics allow you to immediately grab the audience’s attention. You can use this slide when preparing a report on the protection of the environment, the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the transition to green technologies. The slide will be useful for ecologists and public organizations for the protection of nature. The next slide shows our planet divided into two parts – life and lifeless space. Many companies are using the planet’s resources for uncontrolled enrichment. This leads to irreparable consequences. You can use this slide to draw public attention to this issue. The next slide will be useful for companies that develop environmentally friendly equipment. You can use this slide when preparing your marketing campaign. The last slide can be used to prepare a business plan for the construction of waste recycling plants. Also, the slide can be used by the city authorities to alert the population about the need to sort waste by type. All slides of the Global Warming template are easy to edit. You can customize the slides yourself according to your needs. This template will be useful for university teachers when preparing a course on environmental protection or the impact of the greenhouse effect. The slides of this template will organically complement your presentations.

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Climate Matters • November 25, 2020

New Presentation: Our Changing Climate

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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. 

Our Changing Climate is a revamped version of our 2016 climate presentation, and includes the following updates and features:

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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. 

Solvable. With such a daunting crisis like climate change, it is easy to get wrapped up in the negative impacts. This section explains how we can curb climate change and lists the main pathways and solutions to achieving this goal. 

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. 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS & SPECIAL THANKS

Climate Central would like to acknowledge Paul Gross at WDIV-TV in Detroit and the AMS Station Science Committee for the original version of the climate presentation, Climate Change Outreach Presentation , that was created in 2016. We would also like to give special thanks to Scott Denning, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University and a member of our NSF advisory board, for allowing us to use this “Simple, Serious, Solvable” framework in this presentation resource.

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7 PowerPoint Templates for Impactful Climate Change Presentations

Last Updated on February 20, 2024 by Anastasia

If you’re planning to talk about ecology, circular economy, sustainability, or any climate change-related topics, using graphical aids can help you illustrate more data with less text and make your slides more dynamic and motivating. See how you can improve climate change presentations, whether you’re teaching, training, or inspiring your audience.

Visual illustrations can help clarify the message and ideas you want to convey. Using imagery to support rich data can help you take your environmental presentation to the next level and keep your listeners’ focus.

Check out this list of PowerPoint templates we put together. It can be a source of visual inspiration for your climate change presentations.

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These seven decks will help you create high-quality presentations and illustrate various ecology and climate change-related topics:

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• Circular economy and sustainability
• Climate change impacts & business actions
• Plastic pollution & waste
• Ecology & green projects presentation
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You can get any deck presented here as an editable file. Simply click on the images to see and download the source illustrations. Check the full collection of Climate & Ecology PowerPoint Templates here .

Actions Template Against Climate Change

Spreading knowledge and giving practical tips on what each of us can do to help slow down climate change and global warming is a very important part of combating this crisis.

If you want to explain the problems, go into the details. and show solution examples for a company, consumers, or employees, the climate change actions PPT deck is the one. It includes definitions, causes, and consequences of climate change, information on major sources of greenhouse emissions, practical action layouts, calendar and checklist slides, ESG principles, and many other diagrams.

You can use it to share knowledge, inspire, and motivate your community to be more conscious and effective in actions.

Check our blog to learn how visuals can help you drive climate change.

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The triple bottom line (TBL) is an accounting framework that incorporates three dimensions of business performance: social, environmental, and financial. Measuring business using TBL is one of the evaluation methodologies to verify how sustainable the business is, and how profitable it is.

The triple bottom line PowerPoint deck contains slides to illustrate the definition, metrics, quotes, and circular economy model. Also, you’ll find diagrams to show three areas of the TBL concept: Social Sustainability (People), Environmental Sustainability (Planet), and Economical Sustainability (Profit).

See how you can structure your TBL presentation and present various parts of it in this article . To learn more about accounting framework background, we recommend checking this Wikipedia article .

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For more information about circular economy history and applications see this article .

If you’re talking about sustainability principles, types, or core pillars, see how icons can help translate abstract ideas into easy-to-read slides.

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Why use strong visuals for climate change presentations

Adding graphics, even simple ones, will definitely make a difference in your presentation. Therefore it will help you convey your ideas better. This especially concerns climate change presentations, because you probably want to motivate people to take action and better-presented information will help you connect with them.

Having a set of easily editable templates can make your work easier. Pre-designed graphics will help you save time and focus on presentation content.

To ensure the professional look of your slides, check our articles from our designer’s advice about graphical consistency rules  and  aligning elements  properly.

Check our YouTube movie with examples of how you can illustrate climate change or global warming concepts:

Resources: PowerPoint Templates to Use for Climate Change Presentations

The slide examples mentioned above can help you provide environmental education content, prepare marketing material, and kickstart a positive change for a sustainable future.

Explore the set of presentation graphics on climate change, global warming, and other connected topics:

Environmental & Climate Change Presentation PPT Templates

To try out how those graphics work, get a sample of  free PPT diagrams and icons . You can use it to see if this kind of presentation visuals is a good fit for you.

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Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra

The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature . These changes could transform tundras from carbon sinks into a carbon source, exacerbating the effects of climate change.

A team of over 70 scientists from different countries used so called open-top chambers (OTCs) to experimentally simulate the effects of warming on 28 tundra sites around the world. OTCs basically serve as mini-greenhouses, blocking wind and trapping heat to create local warming.

The warming experiments led to a 1.4 degrees Celsius increase in air temperature and a 0.4 degrees increase in soil temperature, along with a 1.6 percent drop in soil moisture. These changes boosted ecosystem respiration by 30 percent during the growing season, causing more carbon to be released because of increased metabolic activity in soil and plants. The changes persisted for at least 25 years after the start of the experimental warming -- which earlier studies hadn't revealed.

"We knew from earlier studies that we were likely to find an increase in respiration with warming, but we found a remarkable increase -- nearly four times greater than previously estimated, though it varied with time and location," says Sybryn Maes of Umeå University, the study's lead author.

The increase in ecosystem respiration also varied with local soil conditions, such as nitrogen and pH levels. This means that differences in soil conditions and other factors lead to geographic differences in the response -- some regions will see more carbon release than others. Understanding the links between soil conditions and respiration in response to warming is important for creating better climate models.

"Our work represents the first assessment of ecosystem respiration response to experimental warming across such a broad environmental gradient in the tundra, incorporating a comprehensive set of environmental drivers," says Associate Professor Ellen Dorrepaal of Umeå University.

The study also offers a broader perspective on Arctic and alpine regions by predicting increases in respiration across the whole tundra area together with more detailed information about variation in the sensitivity of the response.

"We see that some areas, particularly parts of Siberia and Canada, exhibit greater sensitivity to warming," says Professor Matti Kummu of Aalto University. "We anticipate an increase in respiration across the whole Arctic and alpine tundra, but more in situ data, particularly on the local soil conditions, is key to addressing the outstanding uncertainties and refining our predictions."

Understanding how ecosystems shift in response to climate change and how these changes feed back into the climate is vital to get an accurate picture of how our world will change. These findings serve as an important baseline for improved climate models, but the researchers plan to refine them further by analyzing how the experimental sites change over time and expand the experiment's scope to include new sites.

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Scientists warned about warm oceans devastating coral. It's happening at a massive scale.

Massive coral bleaching across the world's oceans during the past year's extremely warm water temperatures was labeled a “global coral bleaching event” by federal officials on Monday. 

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"From February 2023 to April 2024, significant coral bleaching has been documented in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres of each major ocean basin," said Derek Manzello, coordinator of NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch . Reef Watch monitors heat stress based on sea surface temperatures measured by satellite.

Coral scientists around the world say bleaching is growing worse and becoming more frequent as climate change sends temperatures higher in the world’s oceans. They’ve watched the current bleaching event unfold over the past year, from Florida and the Great Barrier Reef to remote islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The news comes on the heels of announcements last week that last month was the Earth's warmest March ever recorded . It was the 10th month in a row of temperatures warmer than previous records , said the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Service. 

"Thermal stress on coral reefs is off the charts” in the northern and southern hemispheres, coral scientist Terry Hughes posted on X Monday morning.  It’s the fourth global mass coral mortality event since 1998, due to escalating human-caused heating , said Hughes, a professor at James Cook University in Australia.

“No one should be surprised,” Hughes posted. He linked to a paper he and 23 other co-authors published in the journal Science in 2018 saying the average interval between bleaching events is less than half of what it was before. The increasing frequency of ocean warming and coral bleaching events isn’t allowing corals to recover in between events, the study found. 

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Bleaching events started last spring in Florida and the Caribbean and have continued, prompting emergency rescues in experimental coral reefs and giving extra urgency to a variety of research projects designed to help coral reefs become more resilient to rising temperatures. 

The heatwave in Florida waters was “unprecedented” – starting earlier, lasting longer and more severe than any previous event in the region, NOAA stated. 

Since then, bleaching also has been reported in Brazil, the eastern tropical Pacific, including Mexico and Costa Rica, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and islands in the South Pacific, including Fiji, Kiribati and French Polynesia, NOAA said. Corals also are experiencing die offs in the Indian Ocean basin, including in the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Tanzania, Seychelles and western coast of Indonesia. 

Heat stress was so extreme in the oceans in December that NOAA introduced new levels for its bleaching alerts. The alerts, which used to include only levels one and two, now number up to five, based on the severity of heat stress in ocean temperatures. 

NOAA is working with agencies and groups to fund research to develop and explore potential solutions to offset the negative impacts of climate change and help coral reefs. 

Dinah Voyles Pulver covers climate and the environment for USA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected] or @dinahvp.

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Cloud engineering could be more effective 'painkiller' for global warming than previously thought

by University of Birmingham

Cloud "engineering" could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research shows.

In a study published in Nature Geoscience , researchers at the University of Birmingham found that marine cloud brightening (MCB), also known as marine cloud engineering, works primarily by increasing the amount of cloud cover, accounting for 60–90% of the cooling effect .

Previous models used to estimate the cooling effects of MCB have focused on the ability of aerosol injection to produce a brightening effect on the cloud, which in turn increases the amount of sunlight reflected back into space.

The practice of MCB has attracted much attention in recent years as a way of offsetting the global warming effects caused by humans and buying some time while the global economy decarbonizes. It works by spraying tiny particles, or aerosols, into the atmosphere where they mix with clouds and with the primary aim of increasing the amount of sunlight that clouds can reflect.

Experiments with the technique are already being used in Australia in an attempt to reduce bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. However the ways in which MCB creates a cooling effect, and the ways in which clouds will respond to aerosols, are still poorly understood, because of variable effects such as the confounding from co-varying meteorological conditions.

To investigate the phenomenon, the researchers created a " natural experiment ," using aerosol injection from the effusive eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii to study the interactions between these natural aerosols, clouds, and climate.

Using machine learning and historic satellite and meteorological data, the team created a predictor to show that how the cloud would behave during periods when the volcano was inactive. This predictor enabled them to identify clearly the impacts on the clouds that had been directly caused by the volcanic aerosols.

They were able to show that the cloud cover relatively increased by up to 50% during the periods of volcanic activity, producing a cooling effect of up to -10 W m -2 regionally. Global heating and cooling is measured in watts per square meter, with a negative figure indicating cooling. Note that doubling CO 2 would lead to a warming effect of +3.7 W m -2 approximately on a global average.

The research was carried out in collaboration with the Met Office, the Universities of Edinburgh, Reading and Leeds, ETH Zurich in Switzerland, and the University of Maryland and NASA in U.S..

Lead author, Dr. Ying Chen, of the University of Birmingham, said, "Our findings show that marine cloud brightening could be more effective as a climate intervention than climate models have suggested previously. Of course, while it could be useful, MCB does not address the underlying causes of global warming from greenhouse gases produced by human activity.

"It should therefore be regarded as a 'painkiller,' rather than a solution, and we must continue to improve fundamental understanding of aerosol's impacts on clouds, further research on global impacts and risks of MCB, and search for ways to decarbonize human activities."

The research comes alongside increased interest in cloud engineering around the globe. UK Research and Innovation has recently launched a research program looking at informing policymakers on solar radiation management approaches, including MCB, while the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), is focused on researching technologies for climate and weather management.

In the U.S., a team from the University of Washington recently carried out its first outdoor aerosol experiment from a decommissioned aircraft carrier in Alameda, California.

Journal information: Nature Geoscience

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