Climate change stamps

NEW!!  Download a story-telling  presentation with stamps about global warming 

CLIMATECHANGEONSTAMPS.pdf 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Undoubtedly global warming and its impacts is one of the most serious problems that have faced humanity.

 

This site is dedicated to “climate change stamps”. We believe and strongly suggest that one can use them as an educational tool in:

  • Primary - secondary education

  • Media

 

For this work we refer “climate change stamps” those stamps  that directly address the issue of global warming

                            •Causes

                             •Effects

                             •International Cooperation(Conferences)                 or  stamps that introduce mitigate actions such as:

                    •Renewable energies

                    •Save energy

                    •Recycling

 

Using stamps for this purpose can have certain advantages:

  • In today’s “visual world”, stamps exploit efficiently the power of picture.

  • They are very commonly used in every day’s life.

  • The big number of countries that have issued such stamps clearly shows the global character of the problem.

  • Some of these countries will be directly affected by “enhanced greenhouse effect” impacts and this has an increased pedagogical value.

  • One can deliver the message about global warming by using postage stamps from all over the world since stamps are a  language-free resource.

 

This site is complementary of the study that was presented at the

7th EMS Annual Meeting and

8th European Conference on Applied Climatology  

Amsterdam 29/9-03/10/ 2008

http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EMS2008/00447/EMS2008-A-00447.pdf

 

the presentation (a part of)  is here :

http://www.emetsoc.org/annual_meetings/documents/GIANNOPOULOS_Emmanouil_Climatestamps.pdf

 

 this site was created (2008) and is maintained   by:

Panos Giannopoulos    pgiannop1(at)yahoo.com

Meteorologist (M.Sc.)-Forecaster (Greek National Meteorological Centre/ Greek National Met. Service HNMS

Weather Presenter (Greek Public RadioTelevision Network ERT)