Here are some FREAKY FACTS about climate change and our world:    Who wants to be a climateer!?! (A Quiz) Ya don't say?! (Freaky Facts) Jokes! Jokes!! Jokes!!! Games   One car produces 3.5 times its weight in carbon dioxide every year!!  Imagine how that affects climate change!   Ontarians produce around 10 billion tonnes of garbage each year.  That is enough to fill the Skydome twice the height of the CN Tower!     If we reduce junk mail by 25%, we can save 1.2 million trees!  Talk to your parents about getting off mailing lists.   Some facts that are NOT so cool: The 10 warmest years in history have all happened in the last 15 years!  The 1980’s and 1990’s were the warmest decades ever recorded!  The 20th century is the warmest globally in the last 600 years!     The global sea level has risen on average 1.5 cm each decade over the last 100 years!  Scientists believe that it could rise by as much as 95cm – nearly a whole metre – by 2100.  Imagine if your house was on the beach!!!     A well-tuned car emits up to 10% less carbon dioxide than a poorly tuned car.   A well-tuned piano emits even less!     Worldwide, a car is being built every second.       The highest temperature ever recorded (in the shade) is 58 degrees celsius.  This was in the Sahara desert.     Who says we need to use gas!  The fastest speed ever recorded in a steam-powered car was 234.44 km/hr!  Talk about steaming!  The fastest electric car traveled at 245.523km/hr!   A mature oak tree can pump up to 4000 cups of water from its roots to its branches in one day.  That’s approximately 2000 cans of pop worth of water! The oldest living thing is a 10,500 year-old Huon Pine tree.   Because water continually cycles through the environment, you could be drinking water that was once inside a tyrannosaurus rex! One car’s used oil dumped down the drain can ruin a year’s supply of water for 50 people... or a day's supply of water for 18,250 people!  Ugh. Water covers 80% of the earth, but only 1% is drinkable.     Light is made up of many colours – you can see some of them in a rainbow!  The gases in the atmosphere absorb some colours and scatter others.  The reason why our sky looks blue is because the atmosphere absorbs most colours and scatters the colour blue.  A faucet drip or invisible toilet leak – totaling only two teaspoons per minute – uses up around 57 litres per day.      This same small leak ends up wasting 20,630 litres per year!!!
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