Make an Action plan to avert CO2. Commit to one way you will ask your community to avert CO2 emissions. Your community can be friends, family, dorms, work, social media followers, or school. Your CO2 aversion must come from your own effort and pledges from people in your community. Please use your creativity. Please plan to take pictures as proof: before and after pictures, food, thermostats, etc., since you will have to submit these. After you identify an action plan (1) You will also have to answer questions 2-4 listed below. The reasons for questions 2-3 are as follows: I want you to link your action plan to with specific threats and consequences, so you know that your specific action plan will help your community both local and global. Your action plan will help with threats and consequences. 1. Identify a method to reduce CO2 emissions that can be accomplished over the course of 7 weeks. State your action plan. Implementation period spans May 24th to June 20th. See references below for ideas. 2. Discuss two major ways (threats) the increase in CO2 is adversely affecting the ocean globally. Discuss one way increase in CO2 is adversely affecting Florida (regionally) and discuss one way increase in CO2 is adversely affecting local community. There can be overlap in the threats, so one threat can be used to explain both global and regional, as long you as you are able to explain thoroughly and justify. Include two ways (threats) for global, one way for regional (threats: Florida), one local. You can find these ways or threat from the ecosystems listed in Table 2 in Brierley and Kinsford, 2009. The a scientific paper "Impacts of Climate Change or Marine Organism and Ecosystems" list threats and consequences (ways) that increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in Table 2 in Brierley and Kingsford 2009.pdf Discuss two global consequences and threats. For the regional way/ threat, think of which ecosystems listed in table 2 are seen in Florida? Discuss how Florida might be directly affected by increased atmospheric CO2 From the ecosystems listed in Table 2 in Brierley and Kinsford, 2009, (or other resources) which ecosystems are seen in Pinellas County, Hillsborough County or your county? Describe how your local community might be directly affected by increased atmospheric CO2 emissions. Please make sure you inform your community on the threats and consequence you choose as you approach them with your action plan to avert CO2. You will have to have at least two resources. I encourage you to use additional resources not listed below. Brierley and Kingsford 2009.pdf You might be able to accommodate the same threat and consequence to both regional and local. If you do, please explain both thoroughly. Please think of were Florida (regional) and Pinellas/Hillsborough/ County etc. (local: cities) are located. Florida is surrounded by water and some local counties have coasts. 3. Do you think these affect you and/or future generations? Discuss why you think it will or will not affect you and/or future generations. 4. How will you provide proof of your action plan? Pictures, pledges, videos, screenshots of social media, etc. References ideas for project: Read the challenge results for 2012, 2013, and 2015 Challenge results from Dr. Cob's students. https://cobblab.eas.gatech.edu//energy/e_crc.html (Links to an external site.) Science News-What lifestyle changes will shrink your carbon footprint the most? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-actions-reduce-carbon-footprint (Links to an external site.) What lifestyle changes will shrink your carbon footprint the most_ _ Science News.pdf Drawdown https://drawdown.org/ (Links to an external site.) https://drawdown.org/solutions (Links to an external site.) References for threats/ways: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/oceans (Links to an external site.) AND https://www.epa.gov/report-environment/greenhouse-gases https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CarbonCycle/page5.php https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CarbonCycle https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide