1.
CLIMATE CHANGE REALITY
Why we need a fast worldwide
mobilization to stop Climate Change
Lecture 1 of 8
HEP University, Alanya, November 2015
The Climate School / Hans Jørgen Rasmussen

2.
Climate School Principles
Dialogue – focus on the students / participants
Lectures – science based knowledge / updated facts
Movies – to speed up learning and make it more
interesting
Building network / caring for each other
Building the learning process together
One step at a time

3.
How many of you have
not had any contact
with
”The Climate School”
before?

4.
How many of you
were here 2 weeks
ago?

5.
How many of you
were at my lecture in
Rotary?

6.
Make a small group
with those sitting
near you

7.
From every group:
What do you THINK about Global Warming
What do you FEEL about Global Warming
What is the most important question you have
about Global Warming
One thought
One feeling
One question

8.
Main structure of
The Climate School
One lecture today
3-4 months with self studies
7 lectures over a 7 week period beginning March
2016
Hopefully:
Ending with discussion of how we – individually
and collectively can take action on climate based
on what we now know.

9.
A short repetition of main
points from the introductory
lecture

10.
Time to visit the ”Climate Cinema”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IFHMj3lqGI

11.
TO BE OR
NOT TO BE
THAT IS
THE
QUESTION !

12.
AND:
IT´S NOW
OR
NEVER!!!

13.
Media and politicians do
not give it high priority

14.
We are denying reality in
many different ways:

15.
Many of us are very good at it!

16.
People who totally deny
man-made climate change still
exist
- but their numbers are
decreasing rapidly

17.
3 types of denial:
INTELLECTUAL
You reject that climate change is happening and
that it´s man-made
EMOTIONAL
You accept climate change being real and man-
made, but the acceptance stays in your head. It
doesn´t affect you emotionally, does not fill your
body, does not reach your stomach and your heart.
POLITICAL
You recognize climate change, you are strongly
affected emotionally by it, but that does not lead you
to become politically active.

18.
Have you
heard
about
Bill
McKibben
?

19.
Bill McKibben is the founder of
http://350.org
- A global movement to solve the Climate
Crisis -

20.
http://350.org www.globalpowershift.org

21.
Bill also said: Do the math!
Short version: 12 min https://vimeo.com/53979295
Long version: 45 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuCGVwJIRd0
:

22.
Holistic solutions are available –
here is one of them!

23.
It is not too late
But it´s urgent:
PLAN B

24.
The Politicians need help from us, the people:
“Politicians discussing global warming” —Sculpture
by Spanish street artist Isaac Cordal.

25.
What would be an efficient wake-up call
for the climate?
And when will it be
too late?

26.
We need a mobilization a la World
War II:
Franklin D. Roosevelt

27.
”Let no man say it can´t be done!” -
F.D.R.-

28.
”If the could do it then, so can we” -
H.J.R.-

29.
The Climate Mobilization:
http://theclimatemobilization.org

30.
Climate march 2014

31.
Marches, demonstrationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1H5lKsuxT0

32.
Paris 30.11.15-11.12.15

33.
Welcome to: ”The Climate Cinema”

34.
This we know now:
Business as usual leads to disaster
Population growth cannot go on
Consumption growth cannot go on
We must change from a growth – based
philosophy to a philosophy based ”enoughness”
and nature´s limited ressources.
It can be called ”ecological economy” or ”circular
economy”

35.
Mobilization everywhere
Do the math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuCGVwJIRd
0
Disruption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktgEzXZDtmc

36.
Mobilization everywhere
The climate kids
http://klimakino.klimautfordringen.org/2015/06/12
/trust-the-climate-kids/
Imatter Youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR7AwbXim-
k

37.
Different future Scenarios
Do we succeed in staying below 2 degrees
celcius temperature rise?
What if we do not succeed in that?
A Post Carbon Society – what will it look like?
Best adaptation strategies: The transition
movement?

38.
Different future Scenarios
Future energy supply?
How much will we be able to reduce our energy
demand?
Will we have enough sun and wind energy?
Wil we be able to build enough solar energy
plants, wind mills and other other forms of
renewable sites to cover the ever growing
demand? And how about storage and
transportation of energy
Will we need nuclear energy – temporarily or
permanently?

39.
Beginning transition
In Transition 1.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSiive9kpL4
In Transition 2.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFQFBmq7X
84

40.
Sea level rise – fresh water scarcity
World under
waterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baGrtqy
WSRM
Chasing Ice
Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIZTM
VNBjc4
Chasing Ice Glacier
calvinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3V
TgIPoGU
Vanishing glaciers of
Himalaya.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450
BXTRoxNA

41.
Food and water crisis
Lester Brown on food and water 5
minutes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAiId
hSSo-0

42.
Solutions exist
If you want to see a lecture on what´s needed
and what global governments need to do, watch
this. It contains most of the answers, and we will
watch it together towards the end of this course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO2xl39nBA
A

43.
Causes: Consumerism
Re-thinking progress: The circular
economy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCRKvDyy
HmI
Wake up
callhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jid2A7ldc_8
Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGMYdalClU
The Story of
Stuffhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGMYdalClU
The Story of
Solutionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpkRvc-
sOKk

44.
Causes: Greed and Capitalism
Greed and Capitalism have wrecked the
planethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJCX
PUVwwg
Pope Francis Calls for Action on Climate Change
& Capitalism as Planet "Exploited by Human
Greed”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC_w
3DzAqxc
Why some countries are rich and some
poorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-
4V3HR696k

45.
Causes: Capitalism
Global Wealth Inequality - What you never knew
you never knew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSxzjyM
NpU
Wealth Inequality in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnij
nsM
Why some countries are rich and some
poorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-
4V3HR696k

46.
Causes: Capitalism
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything
Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhfl
H4alO0
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything -
Capitalism vs. The Climate – lecture by Naomi
Kleinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Yyd5
dxTGE

47.
Climate Change websites –
videobased:
A serious source of knowledge – very good basic
knowledge:
https://www.youtube.com/user/climateliteracy
A serious AND FUNNY source of knowledge – also very
good:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DJSTDoSomething
And maybe the most important one
http://www.filmsforaction.org

48.
Climate Change websites :
(a few of them)
http://350.org
http://www.earth-policy.org
http://grist.org
http://www.resilience.org
https://www.transitionnetwork.org
http://www.skepticalscience.com

49.
Here you find important basic learning
material about global warming:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwTEoo9p
2__bg9hXkbwGvw
These are the lecture videos from the free UBC
course Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate
Change Conversations, which tackles the
scientific and socio-political dimensions of
climate change. This course introduces the
basics of the climate system, models and
predictions, human and natural impacts,
mitigative and adaptive responses, and the
evolution of climate policy.

50.
I wish you
a happy
learningprocess

51.
Which role can Alanya HEP University have in this?
Becoming the first University in Turkey with a ”Faculty of
Sustainable Future”?
Integrating a combination of:
Local management
Building sustainable architecture
Including Climate Change in its way of thinking
The Climate School could be an integral part of this –
educating teachers from other faculties about the facts
of Climate Change
Basis for a general awarenessraising process in Turkey
about this

52.
To all students in The
Climate School:
Let us be friends on Facebook. There I publish a lot of
news about climate change. You find me here:
https://www.facebook.com/hjrasmus
Use The Climate Cinema: http://theclimatecinema.org
to find inspiration.
Tell your friends and fellow students about this so that
we will have a full auditorium next time we meet
Feel free to share this slideshow with everybody!

53.
If you have comments or questions:
Send me an email !
I´m looking very much forward to seeing you again for
the next lecture March 2016!
Information about exact time will follow by email.