Climate change & the effects on our resources
Caleb Z Laate
Zuni & Tesuque Pueblos
Climate change & the effects on our resources
Caleb Z Laate
Zuni & Tesuque Pueblos
Research Log 1
"Sharing One Skin"
The article talks about how our mind and body are connected to the land, how we are the land. How our bodys are of the dirt and soil and how our mind is connected to every living thing. “The soil, the water, the air, and all the other life forms contributed parts to be our flesh.” It also talks about how “we identify the four main capacities that operate together: the physical self, the emotional self, the thinking-intellectual self, and the spiritual self .” How we are the land and every little creature on the land as well.
"How Place Names Impact The Way we See landscape"
The article, "How Place Names Impact the Way We See Landscape," delves thoroughly into place names and how they influence how we see landscapes. All Indigenous peoples have sacred place names that we use to refer to them in general or in prayer and dance. The places tell/give people the story of who we are and where we come from, and again heavily used in creation stories, prayers, dances, and songs.
Jeannette Armstrong works to protect indigenous philosophies and Oral Syilx Stories. UBC Okanagan News. (2022, January 21). Retrieved November 15, 2022, from https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2021/10/06/jeannette-armstrong-works-to-protect-indigenous-philosophies-and-oral-syilx-stories/
Toastie, B. "How place names impact the way we see landscape." High Country News: Know
the West, 1 May 2022,
https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.5/people-places-how-place-names-impact-the-way-we-see-landscape. Accessed 27 August 2022.
Research Log 2
Laate Caleb Z. ¨Orange Clouds¨. 30 Sep 2019. Personal Photo
UK Research and Innovation
"Brief History of Climate Change Discoveries"
Christopher Joyce. A lone polar bear poses on a block of arctic sea ice in Russia's Franz Josef Land. NPR.
10 Dec 2014.
Peter Jackson
From Stockholm to Kyoto: A Brief History of Climate Change
Lianna Nixion. ATMOS and Logistics team finally reach the new destination of the flux sled at the first year ice site. WBUR.
25 Sep 2020
Oliver Marchand
A Brief History of Climate Change Science
In "Brief History of Climate Change Discoveries", By UK Research and Innovation. I learned a little more history on climate change. In 1938 A man by the name Guy Callender made history by claiming the discovery of climate change saying the planet had been warmed with steam. In 1958, a young postgraduate geochemist named Charles David Kelling started to compare the amounts of CO2 in the air and water, no one had really tried to measure the levels of CO2 in the air.In 1968, Dr Mercer was doing fieldwork at the Reedy Glacier in West Antarctica when he discovered a former freshwater lake, 1,400 meters high up in the Transantarctic Mountains. In 1985, the ozone layer in the Earth’s atmosphere naturally protected us from harmful UV light. Three scientists from BAS reported that they had detected abnormally low levels of the ozone layer over the South Pole.In 1992, Scientists realized that higher levels of CO2 in the ocean will make it harder for corals and other animals to build reefs.
I read by Peter Jackson, In 1949 the UN scientific Conference was on the conservation and utilization of resources. It was the first UN body to address the depletion of these resources. However the focus was mainly on how to manage them for economic and social development, and to form a conservation perspective. It wasn’t until 1968 that the environment issues received serious attention to any major UN problems. The UN concern for the atmosphere and global temperatures slowly rising and gaining international attention. “In 1979, the UNEP governing council asked the Executive Director, under the Earth Watch programme, to monitor and evaluate the long-range transport of air pollutants, and the first international instrument on climate -- the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution -- was then adopted." In 1980 the UNEP took it to another level when the Governing Council took concern of the damage to the ozone layer and recommending limiting the productions of “Chlorofluorocarbons F-11 and F-12”, “This led to the negotiation and adoption in 1985 of Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the conclusion of a Protocol to the 1979 Transboundary Air Pollution Convention, which aimed at reducing sulphur emissions by 30 per cent.”
https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/stockholm-kyoto-brief-history-climate-change
Oliver Marchand, Global head of ESG Research and Models, from MSICI says climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time today. It started around 200 years ago when three famous scientists Fourier, Tyndall, and Arrhenius laid the foundation for describing the greenhouse gas effect. Without it the average temperature would be -18 celsius or 0 fahrenheit. It wasn’t until the mid of the 20th century for scientists to discover what the natural properties of CO2 are. In 1985, famous scientist Dave Keeling started to measure the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and did it on top of a volcano. He chose this remote location to allow only the CO2 that is already mixed in the atmosphere. The CO2 levels graphs are now called the Keeling Curving and unfortunately the graphs main trend is upwards. In the 1980's a spike in globe temperatures proved the scientific hypothesis of global warming. In 1988, nasa scientist James Henson testified before the U.S congress stated at the time he was 99 percent certain that global warming was coming.In 1992, the U.N agreed in Rio that nations should work together to prevent dangerous warming. In 1997, The Kyoto Protocol was the world's first genuine attempt at setting mandatory emission reduction to targets, unfortunately the efforts resulted in a failure.In 2006, The public became very aware of the Climate Change crisis. It took a decade later for all U.N members to agree to set emission targets and to agree on global framework for dealing with Climate Change called the Paris Agreement.
A Brief History of Climate Change Science,
By Oliver Marchand, May 6, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k_jk3iwLg4
Research Log 3
Laate Caleb Z. "Moutains". 19 May 2021. Personal Photo.
World Meteorological Organization
Eight Warmest Years on Record Witness Upsurge in Climate Change Impacts
Laate Caleb Z. "Over The Rainbow". 15 June 2020. Personal Photo.
IPCC
Climate Change Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying
Laate Caleb Z. "Among the Trees". 20 Sep 2020. Personal Photo.
World Meteorological Organization
Provisional State of The Global Climate in 2022 Report
The thing that I learned or found interesting from the article ¨Eight Warmest Years on Record Witness Upsurge in Climate Change Impacts¨ by the World Meteorological Organization is that the global average temperature in 2022 is estimated to be about 1.15°C. In the European Alps, glacier melt records were broken in 2022,and the Average thickness loss was between 3 and over 4 meters. In Switzerland, 6% of the glacier ice volume was lost between 2021 and 2022. For the first time in history, It rained instead of snowing in September 2022 and lost a third of the ice. The last thing I found interesting was that the upper 2000m of the ocean continues to warm to record levels.
Eight Warmest Years on Record Witness Upsurge in Climate Change Impacts. World Meteorological Organization. 06 Nov, 2022. Web. Accessed 27 Nov, 2022 https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/eight-warmest-years-record-witness-upsurge-climate-change-impacts
A few things I found interesting or informed me in the article ¨Climate Change Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying.¨ One interesting thing was about reports of a project for the coming of decades of climate change and showed, At 1.5°C there will be an increase of heat waves, longer warm seasons and shorter cold seasons.Then at 2°C of global warming, heat extremes would more often reach critical tolerance threshold for agriculture and health. The last interesting thing in the article was that human actions still have potential to determine the future course of climate change.
Climate Change Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying. IPCC. 09 Aug,2021. Web. Accessed 27 Nov, 2022.
https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-20210809-pr/
The thing that interested me or informed me in the video ¨ Provisional State of The Global Climate in 2022¨ was that in 2022 there were a lot of cases of extreme heat waves throughout the globe which caused droughts and flooding that affected millions of people and cost billions of dollars. The average temperature is about 1.15°C above pre-industrial times. How scientists did not predict the melting of Europe's glaciers. And the last thing I found interesting is that we should invest in more adaptation.
Provisional State of The Global Climate in 2022 Report. World Meteorological Organization. 06 Nov, 2022. Web. Accessed 27 Nov, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuHLkv9bJPc
Research Log 4
EbvImage. Climate change is likely to worsen extreme weather events like flooding and droughts. EbvImage. Aug 17, 2021
The article ¨Southeast Asia to bear the brunt of worsening global climate, IPCC warns¨ by Robin Hicks states that Southeast Asia is to face the harshest effects of climate change. With climate experts saying there is no end to the rising temperatures before 2050. Asia needs a stronger climate defense, and is to be one of the planet's most vulnerable regions. Southeast Asia is being hit with rising sea levels, heat waves, drought, and intense rain. 19-25 cities are exposed to a one meter sea level rise. Most of the region’s do not have carbon reduction strategies. Southeast Asia plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
Tzamaros, Panayotis. A Firefighter battles a blaze in the suburbs of Pallini. CNN. July 20 2022.
Jessica Moody
¨Europe caught napping on climate change as heatwaves spread¨.
News Decoders.
The article "Europe caught napping on climate change as heatwaves spread¨ by Jessica Moody says that because of the Ukraine war, it has provided the European Union with 45% of its gas in 2021. This caused energy shortages that troubled the leaders. The use of hard coal and lignite in the EU rose 12% in the first quarter of 2022, because of this other countries are looking for other resources of gas. Germany plans to develop fields off the coast of Senegal. This would halt the investment of new fossil fuel projects. Current plans to address climate change would have greenhouse gasses cut by 7.5%by 2030.
Moody, Jessica ¨Europe caught napping on climate change as heatwaves spread¨. News Decoders. July 29, 2022. Web
https://news-decoder.com/europe-caught-napping-on-climate-change-as-heatwaves-spread/
Gilbertson Ashley. A man collects scrap wood from property that had been burned to clear for farmland. WEF. March 15, 2022.
World Meteorological Organization
The State of Climate Change In Africa 2020
In the video ¨The State of Climate Change In Africa 2020¨ by the World Meteorological Organization says because of the change of precipitation pattern, along with rising temperatures and extreme weather, the rate of increasing sea level in Africa has made it higher than the global average. Heavy rainfall has caused deadly floods in Sahel. Each drought and flood increased food insecurity. Africa's Green Recovery Action Plan will pave the way to a more sustainable future.
World Meteorological Organization. The State of Climate Change In Africa 2020. October 19, 2021. Web
Aguliar, Kailae ¨presentation¨ Nov 2022 Personal Photo
2022
What we did
My and my partern Kailae Aguilar did a 12 min presentation on what climate change is and what are the causes. This Presentation was at the LMC. In this Action Plan we came up with solutions for the school and some global solutions. The solutions for the school were to change the lights the LED, recycle, countinue to compost, and plant a tree. Global solutions were the switch the solar energy (renewable) and Systematic/industry change
Laate Caleb Z. ¨ Planting The Seed ¨ 25 Feb 2023 Personal Photo
2023
On Febuary 25 of 2023, I planted two Chinese Elm Trees, SunFlower seeds, and Lavender plants. I did this action plan because in May of 2020 a fire broke out in Tesuque. The people who were involved in helping me with this were the Former Governor and my uncle Gailey Morgan who help me get seed from the seed bank. I planned having my parents ànd other family members to come help be plant these, but due to other plans they had I was unable to include my family members with this action plan.
A Brief History of Climate Change Science, By Oliver Marchand, May 6, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k_jk3iwLg4
Brief History of Climate Change Discoveries, By UK Research and Innovation , October 21, 2021 http://www.discover.ukri.org/a-brief-history-of-climate-change-discoveries/index.html#group-section-1990s-2000s-bwnXtJHqpd
Climate Change Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying. IPCC. 09 Aug,2021. Web. Accessed 27 Nov, 2022.
https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-20210809-pr/
Eight Warmest Years on Record Witness Upsurge in Climate Change Impacts. World Meteorological Organization. 06 Nov, 2022. Web. Accessed 27 Nov, 2022 https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/eight-warmest-years-record-witness-upsurge-climate-change-impacts
Moody, Jessica ¨Europe caught napping on climate change as heatwaves spread¨. News Decoders. July 29, 2022. Web
https://news-decoder.com/europe-caught-napping-on-climate-change-as-heatwaves-spread/
Provisional State of The Global Climate in 2022 Report. World Meteorological Organization. 06 Nov, 2022. Web. Accessed 27 Nov, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuHLkv9bJPc
https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/stockholm-kyoto-brief-history-climate-change
World Meteorological Organization. The State of Climate Change In Africa 2020. October 19, 2021. Web