CLIMATE CHANGE: A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE

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Achieving sustainable food security in a world with a growing population, changing diets and a changing climate is a major challenge. More food is needed in the future but climate change means less food production potential and poor people will be hit the hardest. Climate-related crop failures, fishery collapses and livestock deaths already cause economic losses and undermine food security, and these are likely to become more severe as global warming continues.

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) seeks to overcome the threats to agriculture and food security in a changing climate, exploring new ways of helping vulnerable rural communities adjust to global changes in climate. CCAFS brings together the world’s best researchers in agricultural science, climate science, environmental and social sciences to identify and address the most important interactions, synergies and trade-offs between climate change and agriculture. CCAFS is implementing a uniquely innovative and transformative research program that addresses agriculture in the context of climate variability, climate change and uncertainty about future climate conditions.

Responses need to come quickly. CCAFS integrates and applies the best and most promising approaches, tools and technologies. This initiative can only be realized with improved interactions among scientists, researchers, policy makers, civil society, and those who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Both local and global action is needed to accelerate the sharing of lessons on institutions, practices and technologies for adaptation and mitigation, with serious commitment to working in partnership, enhancing capacity and addressing societal differences. CCAFS is working across research disciplines, organizational mandates, and spatial and temporal scales to help address these pressing challenges.

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I watched a video about The Effects of Climate Change in the Future.

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I have participated in our online discussion by doing and absorbing the relevant tasks given to us and applying it to everyday life. Also, by sharing my knowledge about it to other people.

My Carbon Footprint

It's All About Carbon

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From the video I’ve watched, I learned that All living things are made of carbon. Carbon is also a part of the ocean, air, and even rocks. Because the Earth is a dynamic place, carbon does not stay still. It is on the move!

In the atmosphere, carbon is attached to some oxygen in a gas called carbon dioxide.

Plants use carbon dioxide and sunlight to make their own food and grow. The carbon becomes part of the plant. Plants that die and are buried may turn into fossil fuels made of carbon like coal and oil over millions of years. When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and traps heat in the atmosphere. Without it and other greenhouse gases, Earth would be a frozen world. But humans have burned so much fuel that there is about 30% more carbon dioxide in the air today than there was about 150 years ago, and Earth is becoming a warmer place. In fact, ice cores show us that there is now more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there has been in the last 420,000 years.

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I watched a video from NASA, entitled “It’s Al About Carbon”. NASA is a very reliable source which we can trust and get lots of significant things we have to know

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I participated in this online academy, Eliademy, by publishing this blog in the assigned social networking site and to broaden my knowledge carbon. With this knowledge, I can absorb the relevant tasks given to us and applying it to everyday life.

Know your Earth

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From the video I’ve watched I learned about how the planet changes. Earth's parts - land, air, water and life - are always changing. Some of the changes are natural and some are caused by humans. Scientists want to understand how Earth has changed in the past and how it is changing now. This information helps them predict how Earth might change in the future.

NASA studies Earth using satellites. Satellites look toward Earth from space. They take pictures of, and collect information about, all of Earth's parts. NASA satellites are especially good for observing clouds, oceans, land and ice. They also measure gases in the atmosphere, such as ozone and carbon dioxide. They measure how much energy enters and leaves Earth's atmosphere. And they monitor wildfires, volcanoes and their smoke.

Information gathered by NASA satellites helps scientists predict weather and climate. It also helps public health officials track disease and famine. It helps farmers decide when to plant crops and what kinds to plant. And it helps emergency workers respond to natural disasters.

The more people know about Earth and its current and predicted changes, the better decisions they can make.

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I watched a video about fascinating facts of earth NASA and a breathtaking view of the world from the space.

~*Online Collaboration:

I participated in this online academy, Eliademy, to broaden my knowledge about Earth. With this knowledge, I will use it to spread to others the good and bad things of it and to be aware of what is happening.

Climate Change for Sustainable Development

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From the video I've watched I learned that Climate change is the most significant challenge to achieving sustainable development, and it threatens to drag millions of people into grinding poverty. 
At the same time, we have never had better know-how and solutions available to avert the crisis and create opportunities for a better life for people all over the world.

Climate change is not just a long-term issue. It is happening today, and it entails uncertainties for policy makers trying to shape the future.
~* Online Activities:
I watched a video about Global Warming, A Way Forward, 
Facing Climate Change a documentary by the 
NationalGeographic.com
~* Online Collaboration:
I participated in this online academy, Eliademy, to broaden my knowledge about climate change, and how I can help prevent  the worsening of it. With this knowledge, I will use it to spread to others the effects of climate change and the possibilities it may cause in the future if it will not be lessen.

CLIMATE CHANGE

WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE?
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years.

WHAT ARE THE FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE CLIMATE?
Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics and volcanic eruption.

WHAT IS THE TYPE OF CLIMATE IN BULACAN? SAN MIGUEL? 
The Climate of Bulacan as well as San Miguel is dry from November to April and wet from April to November.

DESCRIBE THE EXTENT DAMAGE IN THE AFFECTED AREAS OF TYPHOON GLENDA

• A total of 153 families or 536 persons were affected in Barangay 88 in Tacloban City, Leyte in Region VIII.
• A total of 5872 passengers, 33 vessels, 497 rolling cargoes, 11 motor banca's, and 26 vessels taking shelter were stranded at various parts.
• A total of 40 provinces/ cities / municipalities declared class suspensions in various levels in Region III, IV-A, IV-B, V, VII, NCR and ARMM.
• A total of 30 domestic flights and 4 international flights have been cancelled.
  
  WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL NAME FOR TYPHOON GLENDA?
  The International name for typhoon glenda is Rammasun.

COMPARISON BETWEEN TYPHOON GLENDA, HENRY AND INDAY
Typhoon Rammasun, known in the Philippines as Glenda, was a powerfultropical cyclone that had destructive impacts across the Philippines, South China and Vietnam in July 2014. It was the seventh storm of the season to be named by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). Rammasun is a Siamese word for thunder god. After Lingling and Kajiki earlier in 2014, Rammasun became the third tropical cyclone, and the first typhoon to directly impact the Philippines in 2014. The storm formed in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, an area near the equator where the northeast an southeast trade winds come together, and slowly drifted northwestwards.

Typhoon Henry has been assigned by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) to three tropical cyclones in the western Pacific.

Typhoon Inday has been used in the Philippines by PAGASA in the Western Pacific 2014's Severe Tropical Storm Nakri.

TSUNAMI

• Today I learned that TSUNAMI (plural: tsunamis or tsunami; from Japanese) "harbour wave"  is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, generally an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer. Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly rising tide, and for this reason they are often referred to as tidal waves. Tsunamis generally consist of a series of waves with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called "wave train". Wave heights of tens of metres can be generated by large events. Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins;Wave heights of tens of metres can be generated by large events. Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with over 230,000 people killed in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean.
•  I will apply my learnings and insights in sharing information about this in my everyday life to become aware if what will be gonna do when there is tsunami in our place.
• Learning about this are important because if we do not know what are the effects of this how can we able to prepare ourselves in such situations like this.
• On a larger scale, I will share my learnings on this to help others be aware and for them to be prepared on the things that might happen when there is tsunami.
• I need to know more about typhoon signal because I want to know more information about this phenomenon for me to be easier to share to others what I had learned.