earth science

Save the Climate

Save the Climate is a earth science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Save the Climate rather than just read about it. In short: Save The Climate (Sauvons le Climat) is a French association created in 2004 by Hervé Nifenecker, Roger Balian, Rémy Carle and Bernard Lerouge. In May 2012, five associations are members and thousands of people have signed its manifesto.

Key takeaways

Save the Climate belongs to earth science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Save the Climate to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Save the Climate from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Save The Climate (Sauvons le Climat) is a French association created in 2004 by Hervé Nifenecker, Roger Balian, Rémy Carle and Bernard Lerouge. In May 2012, five associations are members and thousands of people have signed its manifesto. Its purpose is to fight against global warming and provide public information on topics fundamental to sustainable development, the environment, and energy, through eliminating the use of fossil fuels in France by maintaining the share of nuclear power generation in parallel with the use of "heat-like" renewable energy. The association is approved by the French government as a combination of popular education.

Activities and key dates In 2010, Save the Climate's transparency score is 9 out of 10 in the barometer of NGO transparency achieved by the French Prometheus Foundation. According to the 2010 Transparency Barometer non-governmental organizations, the organization of the association class in twelfth position of 107 NGOs evaluated. In 2011, Save the Climate communicates extensively with its energy scenario NEGATEP tale control emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), which is based primarily on energy efficiency and replacing fossil fuels with renewable sources of heat electricity and hydraulic and nuclear, specificity due to the historical particular the generation of energy in France. In 2012, a scientific explanation was completed and coherent arguments supported continuously for eight years by the association on the role of carbon dioxide in increasing the greenhouse effect is natural was published by an independent source. and relayed by the press. The association, represented by its President Jaques Masurel, participated in the conference on the transition energy organized by the French government on 14–15 September 2012.

Media Article "Réaffirmer l'exigence de transparence, par Jacques Masurel, président du collectif SLC – Sauvons Le Climat", L'Humanité, 7 June 2012. Gérard Pierre's conference: "Que restera-t-il sur la Terre dans 50 ans?", Le Petit Journal, a weekly local Catalan No. 280, 6 April 2012. Interview of Gérard Pierre: "Prendre soin de la Terre avec Sauvons le climat", Le Bien Public, 31 August 2011. Interview of Hervé Nifenecker, Honorary chairman of SLC, l'Expansion Brochure "Comment réduire (vraiment) les émissions de gaz à effet de serre" by SLC/Sauvons le Climat Symposium about clean cars co-organized in 2009 by SLC and Confrontations Europe

See also Nuclear power debate Climate change

References

Bibliography Quel modèle énergétique pour l'Europe en 2030?, Actes de la 4ème université d'été, Aubin Editeur – Association Sauvons Le Climat, 201. ISBN 9 782361 110178.

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Save the Climate

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Save the Climate claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In earth science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Save the Climate before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Save the Climate ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Save the Climate

In research: Save the Climate appears in earth science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Save the Climate in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Save the Climate is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2004 establishments, Climate change organizations, Environmental organisations based in France, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Save the Climate outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Save the Climate in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Save the Climate means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Save the Climate out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Save the Climate in simple terms?

Why does Save the Climate matter?

Because it connects several earth science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Save the Climate?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Save the Climate.