Instructions

• Use the sea level projection tool to observe your selected scenario��
• Fill in your groups slide with the following:
• Summarize your scenario
• What do you notice in the data?
• Why do you think communities respond in different ways?
• What could be causing sea level rise to happen in so many different places?
• Are the people who are forced to move at fault?
• Add a picture of your scenario

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SSP1-1.9

1. According to the Sea Level Protection Tool, SSP1-1.9 holds warming to approximately 1.5°C above 1850-1900 in 2100 after slight overshoot (median) and implies net zero CO2 emissions around the middle of the century.
2. In the data, the decades gradually get darker and darker. 2020 started off at light yellow with a meter of 0.0 and by 2150, the meter range increased to approximately 0.6 meters. However, the Gulf of Mexico has reached 1.79 meters by the year 2150.
3. It really depends on the resources that other communities have. If a community barely has much for their own survival, they wouldn't necessarily give away their resources.
4. The sea level could be rising in so many different places due to the vulnerability of multiple communities.
5. The people who are forced to move are not at fault because they have no control over the rising sea levels. Due to this, they have to give up their home and where they live in order to survive and go someplace more safe for them. No, it is not their fault.

SSP1-2.6

• SSP1-2.6 stays below 2.0°C warming relative to 1850-1900 (median) with implied net zero emissions in the second half of the century.
• As you go from 2020, to 2150 the Philippines have been been sinking up to 1.5 meters
• The communities respond differently due to their socio-economic status and their ability to seek governmental aid to stop the process of coastal erosion.
• The main causes of these coastal rises ids most likely due to the thermal warming of the ocean due to the pollution in that area.
• The individuals are not at fault but the corporations and governments who are not stopping the speed of omissions or funding to restore the destruction thermal warming has caused.

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• SSP1-2.6 stays below 2.0°C warming relative to 1850-1900 (median) with implied net zero emissions in the second half of the century.
• As you go from 2020, to 2150 the Philippines have been been sinking up to 1.5 meters
• The communities respond differently due to their socio-economic status and their ability to seek governmental aid to stop the process of coastal erosion.
• The main causes of these coastal rises ids most likely due to the thermal warming of the ocean due to the pollution in that area.
• The individuals are not at fault but the corporations and governments who are not stopping the speed of omissions or funding to restore the destruction thermal warming has caused.

SSP1-2.6

SSP2-4.5

1. The SSP2-4.5 shows the line with the upper end of the NDC levels by 2030. It is similar to the no additional climate policy reference scenario, resulting in a best-estimate warming around 2.7°C by the end of the 21st century relative to 1850-1900. New or updated NDCs by the end of 2020 did not significantly change the emissions projections up to 2030, although more countries adopted 2050 net zero targets.
2. The data is similar to the SSP1-1.9 and SSP1-2.6. The temperatures are estimated to be between 2.7 and 3.4°C by 2100. The emissions from 2020 are not supposed to change by 2030.
3. Communities probably respond in different ways because due to their location. they have access to different resources. Some communities also have support from foreign countries.
4. Sea level rising happens in many different places that have lower elevation. Climate change is a direct cause of the rise in sea levels.
5. No they are not at fault because the sea level risings are caused by the abuse of nature by foreign countries with larger authority.

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SSP5-8.5

Summarize- no policy change

What do you notice- steadily/gradually getting worse

Why do communities- based on resources and money available

Why different places- places with the most ice caps?

Are the people- no, if anything they're the ones who aren't.

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SSP3-7.0

1. Summarize your scenario

Over the years, sea level change increases gradually. Warming stays below 1.25, relative to decade 2100.

• What do you notice in the data?

We noticed that the data has a positive slope, increasing gradually.

• Why different communities react differently?

Because different communities have different levels of resources, funds, and are in different geographical areas.

• What could be causing sea level rise to happen in so many different places?

Climate change causes the glaciers to melt, rising the sea level, impacting coastal areas especially.

• Are the people who are forced to move at fault?
• No
• Add a picture of your scenario

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SSP5-8.5 Low Confidence

SSP5-8.5 is a scenario with no additional climate policy. It is emissions calculate just by Fossil fuels and no other SSPs.

As the Decades go by, the rate that water rises per year goes up. It starts by rising little by little but as the decades go by the Sea Levels rise to higher levels quicker.

Communities respond in different ways because of the different resources that they are left with. Some cities have the money to tend to these climate change issues while others have to deal with the damages.

Sea levels could be changing in so many different places because of climate change which causes global change of the ocean. Due to the thermal heating of the ocean as well as melting of glaciers or land based ice, water expands.

The people who are forced to move aren’t at fault because they aren’t the ones causing it. This change in sea level that we are seeing is being caused by burning fossil fuels, and it is larger cities and countries that are burning them the most. Lots of greenhouse gases are emitted because of the burning of fossil fuels. Bigger cities and countries are responsible for climate change in poorer countries that don’t have the resources to emit those fossil fuels or deal with them.

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