Question

Each group prepares a short speech (3-5 minutes) on specific issues about climate change:

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What are greenhouse (CO

2

, MH

4

, N

2

O, etc.) gases and how do they work?

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Temperature rise, how much and how fast? Consequences?

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Extreme weather: storms, how frequent and how fast? Consequences?

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Climate deniers, what are their arguments? Do they have a point?

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Mark Leno, what are his environmental policies? Other policies?

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Jane Kim, what are his environmental policies? Other policies?

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London Breed, what are his environmental policies? Other policies?

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Angela Alioto, what are his environmental policies? Other policies?

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Extreme weather: droughts, how frequent and how fast? Consequences?

Feel free to use visual aids. Show us statistics and graphs.

Use your critical thinking skills to research and organize information, and come up with

constructive and convincing arguments.

For the mayoral candidates, focus mainly on their environmental policies. But if you find some

other policies of theirs that are related to our lives or campus (housing development, education,

etc.), feel free to include them too.

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