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Q&A: the nuts and bolts of climate change
Where is the evidence?
Dangerous tipping points
Antarctica
Greenland
Arctic sea ice
Melting permafrost & burning ice
Ocean currents inc. El Niñ0/La Niña
Animals and plants are moving & dying
New Zealand’s disappearing glaciers
Glacial or Ice Age…who cares?
How to start an Ice Age!
How we know about past climates: proxy data
How we know if extreme weather is due to climate change
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What causes climate change?
Would the climate be getting warmer without humans?
What causes climate change?
It’s ‘just a cycle’ – Milankovich
Sunspots & solar activity
Land use: agriculture
Volcanoes
Ocean currents inc. El Niño/La Niña
Greenhouse gasses & how they work
Carbon dioxide & the carbon cycle
Methane
Nitrous oxide
Water vapour & clouds
Ozone
Black carbon & ash
Man-made industrial chemicals
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How is it affecting us? What will our future be like?
What will it cost us?
How hot could it get?
Losing critical life-support systems
Vanishing biodiversity
Increasingly acidic oceans
More pandemics
More wildfires, less snow and ice
New Zealand’s changing climate
Canterbury’s changing climate
Rising sea levels
Canterbury sea levels : case studies
Floods : bigger and more often
Marine & lake heat waves
Canterbury climate risk screening
Losing your insurance?
Native ecosystems: our climate superheroes
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What are politicians doing about it?
A short history of climate change: who knew what, when
Is New Zealand doing enough?
How much time do we have?
Plant trees…but mostly pines
Negative emissions technology
Predicting the future climate: how climate models work
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: IPCC
The Paris Agreement
New Zealand policies and strategies
Nationally Determined Contributions : NDCs
The emissions trading scheme : ETS
The ‘carbon free’ economy
The NZ Climate Change Commission
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Nature-based solutions
Our local ecosystems
Native ecosystems: climate superheroes
Soils: carbon sponges
Our forests
Our rivers & lakes
Our wetlands
Our dunes & coastal wetlands
Our estuaries
The ocean
Blue carbon
Seaweed
Ecosystem services: free stuff from nature
Plants and animals are on the move!
The cost of losing biodiversity
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What we’re doing about it
Introduction
Tuhaitara Coastal Park
Nelson Whakatu Microforest
Banks Peninsula: Overview
Akaroa Area School: Te Umu te Rehua Reserve
Hinewai Reserve
Kaikoura: Nagari wetland
Fixing Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere
Waitarakao Washdyke Lagoon
The Hakatere/Ashburton River
Hakatere/Ashburton Rivermouth project
Whakaora Te Ahuriri wetlands
Coastal Restoration Trust
Canterbury climate risk screening
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Innovation
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Negative emissions technology
Carbon negative concrete
Biocement : bricks grown from microorganisms
Storing CO2 in our rocks
Regenerative agriculture : Quorum Sense
Regenerative agriculture : National Science Challenges
Adaptation : National Science Challenges
Depave – Community Storm Water Management using native plants
How to avoid maladaptation
NIWA : ocean and atmosphere
Landcare Research : greenhouse gases
Govt. investment in decarbonising industry : GIDI
EmGuard : NZ made biodegradable plant guards
Transition Engineering : AEMS lab NZ
Callaghan Innovation : clean tech
FRENZ eggs: Feeding mussel waste to chickens
Reducing nitrous oxide in agriculture
Generation Less
Lawyers for Climate Action
Creating Azola forests
Blue carbon: seaweed
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