Corinne M. NHS Global Warming

For the people at the botanical gardens I found a list of numbers, I’m just not sure which to call. Im sure I could call one and they could direct me in the correct direction.
Hello my name is Corinne… and I go to Parkway North High. Our class is doing a documentry about global warming. I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind being one of our expert speakers for an interview in our documentry. You could talk about what global warming is, how its caused, or how we can prevent it from progressing. I could stop by the [[botanical gardens]] one day, or you could come by school during the day. Which ever is more conveinent to you. I would be happy to give you the questions in advanced so that you could think over your answers. Any knowledge about the subject is appreciated. This is my number is you want to contact me…. [[number]].

1.What is your initial reaction when you hear the words global warming? 2.What do you think global warming is? 3.How do you think we’ve contributed to it? 4.Where do you see it affecting us the most? 5. How do you think global warming will affect us personally? 6.When do you think we will start seeing the effects? 7.Do you think we will be able to adapt to these changes? 8.Do you think anything positive could come out of the situation? 9.How can we help the situation? 10.Do you think the whole topic is overblown? Why or Why not?

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I think the topic global warming is a really meaning topic. I really look forward to doing this documentry and paper. I usually wouldn’t but the subject is something that I always had an intrest in. When people bring up the subject of global warming I always had some things to say about it but I would love to be able to participate in the conversation more. I want to be able to teach and learn in the conversation. Im super excited. :]  I really haven’t learned many things I thought I was going to learn. I wanted to learn about all the effects and the proven stuff and read all the statistics. But I have ended up with all these mismatched stories with one person saying that global warming is going to cause worse hurricanes and another person saying it will make hurricanes less frequent. All the information is so confusing and, at times, hard to follow. I was surprised to find out that people dont want to supprt causes trying to help global warming. If its something that will effect not only you but the whole world, it just doesnt make sense why people who have the power to help wont.  I really dont even know what else we need, I dont really know what info we have. I dont know what the heck im looking for exactly.  I have some info for other groups because everything is thrown together.

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Gore, our former president, has decided to launch a three year, multimillion  advocacy campaign. They want the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Hes getting as many people as he can involved in this. The Alliance for Climate Protection’s campaign, said that they would “combine advertising, online organizing and partnerships with grass-roots groups to educate the public about global warming and urge solutions from elected officials.” They are planning on spending over 300 million dollars in three years. Some will be coming from Gore alone. They are trying to get others involved as much as they can, including groups like girl scouts. They have over 2.7 million members, who were given kits to help get their nieghbors involed with them. They know many people want to help and are concerned they just dont know what to do. They are trying to help people learn how to help and be able to help  activly.

 This makes me super happy. To know that someone out there is using their money to raise more money to help the whole world. They are trying to get as much people as possible involved and they should be, because everyone needs to beaware and work together to help. Its really cool that Gore is doing this, it makes hima role model for other people with power like his. that you can persued and have people join you in something worth while.  

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there was a cholera outbreak in Peru due to a change in ocean temperatures. Some people worrie it could bring other things to Peru. People panicked and thought people were going to start dying right and left. Clinics said they could help and told people to come in as soon as possible. All they needed was to get hydraghted and salts back into their body. It was an inexpensive cure. In 1991 there was an epidemic that killed around 3,500 people, which was realativly small. Warm ocean currents encourage the growth and spread of cholera bacteria.

Its scary to think that global warming could bring diseases and whio knows what else to us. We could have new diseases or old ones that we thought were not coming back circling back through communities.

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Everyone in the world needs water, but too much isn’t good. The Greenland ice sheet is melting and the Antartic ice sheet and rising the water level a noticably high.  Major cities in Asia will be under water if the Greenland ice sheet melts. The ocean will rise 20 feet all over the world if that happends. As the climate warms so does the water, and when water becomes hot, it expands. the sea has been rising 3 millimeters each year since 1993. Half of that which has risen is because of climate change.

 Obviously there are signs all around us that global warming is occuring. The ocean is rising and people will be greatly affected by these changes all around the world. We really need to work together on this to help soften the side effects. Although someof them may be positive side affects, most are not.

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Roger A. Pielke Jr., an environmental policy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder says that adapting to global warming would be more efficient and cost less that trying to prevent it. He says that instead of spending all this money on trying to reduce greenhouse gases and carbon dioxied levels, just spend the money on the things that are being effected. The things that need it now. The people who are going hungry because of droughts, send them food, spend money on fertalizer that will help, not trying to change the enviroment. Hans von Storch, director of the Institute of Coastal Research in Germany says that the worlds problems are already so big whats a little more on top?  He says, “If you’re really concerned about drought, those are much more effective strategies than trying to bring down greenhouse gas concentrations.”

Some of this is very true. Its very important to help the people now, than to try and help the generations that might be greatly effected by this. Its not even a garuntee that anything mayjor will happen. But that doesnt mean we should stop trying to help the earth all toghether. Just that we should also try and help those suffering now. Its all one big process, if this continues in a little the drought may get worse, so we should try to prevent that while also trying to help the people who are effected by it. If you always just add a little more, it becomes a lot more. So its not as simple as, whats a little more?

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Earth hour went on for an hour on March 29th at 8 o’clock. Many mayjor cities participated in this event. National monuments and skyscrapers all alike turned out thier lights. Although there were some buildings, like banks and pubs, who refused, most everyone participated in this world wide happening. they did this because electricity plants produce greenhouse gases that fuel climate change. Over 2.2 million Sydney residents and over 2,100 businesses switched off, leading to a 10.2% energy reduction across the city in 2007.

This event shows us that we can do things as simple as turning off our lights, makes a diffrence.  This shows that people are willing to work together to help save our earth. It all starts with one act, and can turn into something as big as this. Last year Sydney was pretty much the main city that participated in this, and then this year countries around the world are participating. Next year who knows what will happen. If people just switched things off when they werent in use, we could reduce our energy intake by so much.