EXTREME WEATHER

CAUSED BY GLOBAL

WARMING

PREPARED BY:

1. Nur Ezryn Saffia Abu Zaharoff 1310720

2. Najwa Saleh 1316566

3. Rikha Kurnia Rahmawati 1218742

4. Zawani Hafizah Zainuddin 1315684

OVERVIEW

Conclusion

Islamic Perspective

Cause Solution

Scientific Perspective

Global Warming Extreme Weather Two Examples

Introduction

What is Global Warming?

• An increase in the Earth’s atmospheric and

oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur

due to an increase in the greenhouse effect

resulting especially from pollution1.

1Merriam Webster (accessed November 14, 2014); available from i.word.com/dictionary/global%20warming.

Drought

Heat Waves

Hurricanes / Cyclones / TyphoonsTornadoes

Extreme

Weathers

Floods

Blizzard

s

World Climate Zones

Climatic Zones (accessed November 15, 2014); available from http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/images/worldclimate.gif.

Extreme Weather Most Affected Country Figures

Tornado United States of America 1,274 per year

Hurricane/Cyclone/

Typhoon

United States of America 268

Flood Bangladesh 30-70% of country

flooded per year

Drought Malawi, Africa 2 serious droughts in 20

years

Blizzard United States of America Average of 10.7 per year

Heat Wave United States of America Average of 243.3 deaths

per year

Effects

Damages

Lack of resources

Health problems

Deaths

GLOBAL WARMING

• Main culprit: Carbon dioxide gas, CO2

• Originates from:

1. Burning of fossil fuel

- petroleum (oil), natural gas, coal

2. Deforestation

-plants consume CO2 for photosynthesis

• CO2 remains in the atmosphere for longer

- CH4: 10 yrs

- NO: 100 yrs

- CO2: 100 yrs (80%) and 800 yrs (20%)

• Gases forming a warm blanket around the

planet Earth “green house effect”

• The gases absorbs heat reflected from the

Earth’s surface, which otherwise would be

going to space

EXTREME WEATHER

Forms

• Heat wave

• Intense precipitation

Rain

Snow

• Flood and drought

Change

• Intensity

• Frequency

• Duration

• Widespread

IMPACTS

European Heat Wave 2003

• ≥ 35 000 deaths (health-

related)

• Southern Europe: drought

affecting crops

• Portugal: forest fires of

Luxembourg size

• River Danube, Serbia:

lowest level in 100 years,

exposing bombs and tanks

from WW2

Pakistan Floods 2010

• Heavy monsoon rains

attributed to La Nina

• 1/5 of Pakistan’s land area

was underwater

• 20 000 000 affected

• Economic loss estimated at

USD 43 billion

Cause

Solution

The Qur’an says

Corruption has appeared in both land and

sea. Because of what people’s own hands

have brought about. So that they may taste

something of what they have done. So that

hopefully they will turn back (30:41)

But will we…..?

Disturbance of The Natural Order

Violation of God’s natural Law

Disasters have spread throughout the land and

sea, because of what the people have

committed.

1. Changes in agriculture with extensive

deforestation and increased desertification as

well as the increase in livestock

2. The outcome of man’s greed;

the human being’s insatiable lust for the

enjoyment of the comforts of life and the

temptation from syaitan (Qur’an 4:119)

3. Harmful practices and habits towards nature

Solutions, based on Islamic

perspective

1. To be sensitive towards God’s works and

creation, and live harmony with natural order

“But waste not by excess for God loveth not

the wasters” (Qur’an 6:141)

2. Climate Justice (Qur’an 55: 1-13)

3. Fulfilling our role of KHALIFAH

4. Applying the teaching of ISLAM as the

Religion of Harmony

5. Just as we might recognise the pressing nature

of the climate challenge, we must, as

expressed in Surat 103, Al–Asr,

simultaneously enjoin one another in ‘truth’

and ‘patience’.

Our Future

Future Climate Change (accessed from November 15, 2014); available from

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/images/science/ScenarioGlobalTemp.jpg.

Future Temperature Changes (accessed from November 15, 2014); available from

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/images/science/ScenarioGlobalTemp.jpg.

What can we do?

• 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)

• Encourage others to conserve

• Increase our knowledge about global warming

and extreme weathers

• Raise awareness

Why should we care?

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