Project Outline: Community Climate Change Appraisal

Description

Please follow and fill out the outline with the necessary information to provide a brief outline of the project attached in pdf. I have chosen climate change in Florida so everything must be relevant to its geographical location.

Climate Change in Florida:

Include in your introduction a brief discussion of what climate change is.
Causes of climate change:
What are the major factors that cause climate change?
Provide at least four major mechanisms and explain how they cause climate change. Discuss how they cause positive and negative feedbacks between each other.
The historical context of climate change in your geographic area:
What are some of the major climatic events in your area from 550 million years ago to 15,000 years ago?
Provide at least three major events, discuss how we know they happened, and the impacts that they had in the area.
What are some of the major climatic events in your area from 15,000 years ago to 1850?
Provide at least three major events, discuss how we know they happened, and the impacts that they had in the area.
How has the climate in your area changed over the instrument record (~1850 to the present?
Use temperature data to reconstruct local climate over the instrument record for your area (you may have to look slightly farther afield for a dataset). In your graph follow yearly temperature trends and use a best fit line with your data.
The implications of climate change in your geographic area:
Discuss at least relevant three regional and environmental issues with climate change in terms of natural resources (e.g. land use, extinction, invasive species, fires, hunting, etc.) in your area.
Discuss at least three relevant socio-economic effects (e.g. jobs, tourism, agriculture, water resources, etc.) of climate change in your area.
Discuss at least three personal, political and policy efforts you can champion in your area to help address and mitigate climate change and its effects.
Discuss what modeling and predictions have to say about climate change in your area and what you should expect in the future. Mention the limitations to such predictions.
Conclusion / Summary:
Provide a very brief synopsis of the presentation.
Citations:
Provide at the end of the presentation citations to the resources used in the creation of the presentation.