Climate Disaster Education
CLIMATE DISASTER EDUCATION WILL ANDERSON BA. BEd. MEd. May 14, 2011
EDUCATION
BA, Geography major, including climatology
BEd. MEd.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Teaching. biology, geography and science Grade 6 to 12
Teaching at University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg
Chief Parks Naturalist for Manitoba Parks – Creating and managing the Parks education program. Followed environmental issues for 40 years and particularly climate change.
PRESENTATION
The science of climate change, how you measure it; arctic ice cap, glaciers, migratory species, breakup, new species. Oceans and climate change.
The deniers,and cigarette companies. Why? Profit. Obfuscation, creating uncertainty because they have no science to support their opinion.
Jones town massacre and climate change.
Petroleum and energy and climate change. Geological history. Permian extinction
Consequences of climate change regional, national, global. Who suffers soonest and most. Weather events, disease, poor water, shortage of water, death rates, continental and international WHO and UN.
Solution of Geo engineering and technology.
WHY CHANGE IS POSSIBLE, WHAT YOU SHOULD DO FOR YOURSELF AND FOR THE PLANET
Personal responsibility.
Schools and curriculum
Corporations.
Governments; Cap and trade, and the Carbon tax
Easy routes: letters to Political representatives
Your future
How the young can play a role; face book, twitter, blogs. Connect and defeat the deniers
Suzuki Challenge, little things at home, systems change.
Government regulation and policy: Transportation, Railways, cars, bikes, joint investment in a four wheeled commuter electric bike. Building codes.
SOURCES FOR ACCURATE INFORMATION: G. Dyer, Climate Wars, Dr. Friedman, Hot Flat and Crowded, Lester Brown Plan B2, Dr.Alana Mitchell, Seasick, Dr, James Hansen, Storms of My Grand Children. Dr.Danny Blair, Professor and climatologist at the U. of Winnipeg.
Will Anderson Net site climatedisaster.com