HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

The Earth Dog Coloring Book is for kids of all ages.

It can be used as a teaching tool in the classroom.

Content in the ebook version, includes a CNN video with 4 big takeaways from
the UN’s alarming climate change report” which is intended for adults to grasp
the extent of the problem so that they can help their children participate in solv-
ing the problem which will affect their live profoundly.

We encourage everyone to get involved by demanding that Governments

around the world prioritize the efforts needed to prevent the escalation of Cli-
mate Change.

Fossil fuel corporations that perpetuate Climate Change and politicians who
have for years put special interest in front of our childrens futures will continue to
resist renewable clean energy alternatives unless demand a change.

Get involved in the policy changes that are urgently needed and let your children
get involved along side of you. 

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VOTE for politicians who understand that clean energy is more than just clean
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BECOME AN EARTH DOG REPORTER!

Report to the press when you see Environmental Problems!

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 TURN OFF THE LIGHTS WHEN YOU LEAVE A ROOM!

TURN OFF THE LIGHTS!

Draw A Picture of Yourself Turning Off The Lights!

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 RECYCLE

DON’T FORGET TO RECYCLE!

Write A List On How You Recycle!

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RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES!
List Renewable Energy Sources Below!

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 READ THE NEWS!
• Earth System Governance Project (ESGP)

• Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• AND MORE!

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_and_conservation_organizations_in_the_
United_States

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WIND ENERGY & ELECTRIC CARS

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WHAT IS HYDRO POWER?

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Write A Letter To The President!

The White House •1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW • Washington, DC
20500

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Let Them Know How You Feel About The Environment!

Call Congressional offices directly or through the switchboard. If you do not

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The Earth Dog Story !

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 4 big takeaways from the UN’s
alarming climate change report

4 big takeaways from the UN’s alarming climate change report

1.5 degrees Celsius of warming will be much worse than the 1 degree Celsius we’re experi-
encing now.

By Umair Irfan  Oct 9, 2018, 12:10pm EDT A reprint from VOX

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The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on limiting global
warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, is out. Its prognosis for the
planet is grim: We may have as little as 12 years to act on climate change — to slash
global emissions 45 percent — to reach this target.

The report was commissioned by the United Nations to see what would happen if global
average temperatures rose by 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, and what it would take to
cap warming at that level. Under the Paris climate agreement, nations agreed in 2015 that
they would take actions to limit global warming to 2°C while striving for the even tougher
target of 1.5°C.

The new report is meant to build on that agreement, and it is exhaustive, with 133 authors,
drawing on more than 6,000 peer-reviewed research articles. The overarching conclusion
is that every fraction of a degree of warming matters. Letting temperatures rise will exact a
huge toll on lives, natural systems, and the economy. Fighting to keep warming in check
— which will include radically and rapidly reducing coal and oil consumption, among other
things — will save lives, the food supply, and homes.

The findings are dense and dispiriting, so I don’t blame you if you don’t want to pore over
the 700-plus pages of the actual report or the 34-page summary for policymakers.

But climate change is something that impacts the whole planet. We and future generations
are all in this together. So here are four key takeaways from the latest reminder by the
world’s top climate scientists that we need to get much more ambitious about the chal-
lenge before us.

2°C of warming is worse than 1.5°C, and 1.5°C is much

worse than the 1°C we’re experiencing now
We’ve been burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas since the dawn of the Indus-
trial Revolution, and we’re not slowing down. When burned, these fuels emit carbon diox-
ide, which traps heat in the atmosphere.

Now the world has heated up by 1°C on average compared to preindustrial times. We’re
already seeing its effects in the forms of the fastest decline in Arctic sea ice in 1,500
years, more than 8 inches of sea level rise since 1880, and more damaging extreme
weather due to climate change. Global temperatures are still trending upward, but coun-
tries want to limit that warming to 2°C by 2100 under the Paris agreement. Ideally, they
don’t want to make it past 1.5°C.

It turns out there are enormous differences for the planet in that 0.5°C between the two
scenarios: Marine fisheries would face double the declines with 2°C of warming compared

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to 1.5°C. Maize harvests would decrease by more than double. Insects, including vital polli-
nators, would see their ranges decline threefold. Sea levels would rise by another 2 inches,
putting an extra 10 million people at risk of coastal flooding and related problems. The
number of people exposed to extreme heat at least once every five years doubles under a
2°C scenario relative to a 1.5°C scenario. (The World Resources Institute has a great info-
graphic comparing the two scenarios.)

In other words, things will get bad as the climate warms, but if it gets hotter, those effects
will get worse. “Climate-related risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, hu-
man security, and economic growth are projected to increase with global warming of 1.5°C
and increase further with 2°C,” according to the report.

So it’s not a trivial difference.

We need every trick in the book to fight climate change, and we need to get much better
at removing carbon from the atmosphere

The report goes into quite a bit of detail laying out pathways to limiting warming to 1.5°C.
In short, these paths require drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at an extraordinarily
fast pace.

As my Vox colleague David Roberts pointed out on Twitter:

Basically, stopping warming at 1.5C would involve an immediate, coordinated crash pro-
gram of re-industrialization, involving every major country in the world. It would be like the
US mobilizing for WWII, only across the globe, sustained for the rest of the century.

Nothing like that has ever happened. Nothing even remotely similar has ever happened.
There are currently no indications that any such effort is getting underway, and indeed the
US is vigorously moving the other direction.

Yet we have the tools to do it: namely, conventional methods like energy efficiency meas-
ures, replacing fossil fuel-fired generators with renewables, electrification, renewable fu-
els, switching to electric vehicles, and so on.

However, some of the paths anticipate an “overshoot.” The means the world’s greenhouse
gas emissions would exceed the amount needed to warm the planet by 1.5°C, so some
method is needed to pull carbon dioxide out of the air.

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) encompasses a suite of different tactics. This includes
planting more forests, which take in and store carbon dioxide as they grow. Bioenergy cou-
pled to carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) is another option. So is direct air cap-
ture of carbon dioxide.

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Though a handful of companies are working on these latter technologies, they are still in
their early stages. There are only a handful of direct air capture plants, and we’ll need
vastly more of them since upward of 1,000 gigatons of carbon dioxide will have to be re-
moved from the atmosphere by 2100, according to the IPCC. Currently, we emit about 53
gigatons of greenhouse gases each year, according to the World Bank, so in the extreme
case, the world would need to deploy enough CDR to offset more than 18 years of total
global carbon emissions.

But even if we don’t overshoot our carbon budget, we will still need CDR to compensate
for other sectors of the economy that are harder to decarbonize, like air travel or agricul-
ture. The IPCC puts it thusly:

All analysed 1.5°C-consistent pathways use CDR to some extent to neutralize emissions
from sources for which no mitigation measures have been identified and, in most cases,
also to achieve net-negative emissions that allow temperature to return to 1.5°C following
an overshoot (high confidence). The longer the delay in reducing CO2 emissions towards
zero, the larger the likelihood of exceeding 1.5°C, and the heavier the implied reliance on
net-negative emissions after mid-century to return warming to 1.5°C

And CDR is not a get-out-of-climate-change-free card: Limiting warming to 1.5°C still de-
mands the rapid scale-up of technologies the world has never deployed at any apprecia-
ble scale. We’re in uncharted territory, and the longer we wait, the more we’ll need them.

Policies and economics weren’t addressed in the IPCC

report, but they’re impossible to ignore
The costs of limiting climate change and the kinds of policies it demands are conspicu-
ously absent in the IPCC report. It’s a huge part of the equation of fighting global warming,
but at the press conference on Monday announcing the release of the report, authors were
insistent that they were only mandated to look at the science of limiting global warming to
1.5°C.

“One thing the report did not aspire to do is answer the question of feasibility,” said Jim
Skea, co-chair of IPCC Working Group III, at the press conference. “We said it was possi-
ble within the laws of physics and chemistry.”

The researchers did estimate the global economic damages from warming — $54 trillion if
the world warms by 1.5°C by 2100, $69 trillion if temperatures reach 2°C. But convincing
governments to pursue the 1.5°C target and finding the way to pay for it is the only way

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we can achieve what’s outlined in the report, a fact the researchers grudgingly acknowl-
edged.

“Carbon pricing and the right economic signals are going to be part of the mix,” Skea said.

Right now, it’s tremendously expensive to deploy all the technologies and policies to fight
climate change. However, the costs to society of allowing the planet to continue to warm
are even more immense in the long term.

And it stands to reason that fighting climate change could in fact boost the global econ-
omy. A recent report found that a global shift toward sustainability would yield a stagger-
ing $26 trillion in economic benefits by 2030. The question is how to convince countries to
spend billions now to save trillions in the future.

We also need to resolve the fundamental injustice of climate change: The people who con-
tributed the least to the problem and benefited the least from its sources stand to suffer
the most.

Making a compelling financial case to fight climate change and to help the most afflicted
demands a rigorous accounting of its effects. The includes calculating the social cost of
carbon, how much a unit of carbon dioxide emissions hampers a given country’s econ-
omy.

Yet there aren’t many economic penalties for spewing greenhouse gases. Some countries
have carbon prices, but few have priced emissions high enough to drive a major change in
their carbon footprints. And there are only a handful of tools to help poorer countries pay
for the damages of climate change, like the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund.

One solution is to price carbon, whether through a tax or another mechanism like cap and
trade. That would help drive up the cost of dirtier energy sources and make technologies
that emit less more competitive. The revenue these mechanisms generate can then help
those afflicted by rising seas or extreme weather gain recourse.

Such a scenario also requires more investment in research and development to help bring
down the costs of cleaner alternatives, which further drives the economic case to fight cli-
mate change. If you make it affordable, you make it feasible. And if you make it profitable,
you make it sustainable.

It’s also fitting that the launch of the IPCC report coincided with the 2018 Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economic Sciences going to a climate change economist, William Nordhaus, who
shared the prize with economist Paul Romer.

The responsibility, then, for translating the findings of this report into action falls to every-
one who reads it. Hans-Otto Pörtner, co-chair of IPCC Working Group II, said at the press

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conference that the report “comes with some wishful thinking that the messages that this
report conveys are being taken up by the public, by the policymakers, by the govern-
ments, and that the urgency of the issue is being seen, because climate change is shaping
the future of our civilization.”

The IPCC will present its findings to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change meeting in Poland later this year. That meeting may lead the UN to issue new poli-
cies or recommendations for fighting climate change.

We can still fight climate change, but we’re locked into a

difficult scenario
There is a small respite in the IPCC report: Researchers found that the greenhouse gas
budget to limit warming to 1.5°C may be a bit larger than previously thought by about 300
gigatons. That buys the world some wiggle room, but not much: about six years’ worth of
global emissions.

Our current emissions trajectory puts us on a course to reach 3°C of warming by the end
of the century, even if every country meets its goals under the Paris agreement.
Global greenhouse gas emissions are set to rise this year. Yet the harms outlined in the
new IPCC report show that even the Paris target of 2°C may still be too dangerous.

Getting on course for 1.5°C of warming would require slashing global greenhouse gas
emissions 45 percent below 2010 levels by 2030. And greenhouse gas emissions have
grown, not fallen, since 2010, so the cut has to be even more drastic now.

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t’s possible to do this, even with technology as it stands now, but it would require a level
of coordinated effort the world has never seen before. It’s also a level of effort no country
seems to be willing to endure.

All this adds up to a situation with no easy way out. There is no room left for wishful think-
ingthat a perfect solution will emerge without trade-offs, that we’ll dodge any grievous con-

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sequences of warming, and that we won’t have to pay for this, either today or decades
down the line with interest.

Everything we do to mitigate warming will have some benefit, and it’s worth fighting to con-
trol every fraction of a degree, but even the best-case scenario involves drastic changes to
the world as we know it. And we’re rapidly closing the window to achieve it.

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MAPS

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NASA GLOBAL CHANGE MAP 2017

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February 2017 was second-warmest February on record – Climate Change ...

NASA Global Climate Change

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 NASA releases detailed global climate change projections

Nasa maps reveal how the world will need to adapt to climate change

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Long-term warming trend continued in 2017: NASA, NOAA

From NASA

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