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Climate Change Review

Problem&Solution:-

Climate change has been very disastrous lately; it’s affected the world in many ways and if we are to keep avoiding it the way we are doing now without any proper action, we shall suffer, having a polluted world in the future.

As Al Gore states, the majority of the landmass and vegetation today lies above the equator; unfortunately if the world remains as it is, there won’t be much of it at all. 40% of the people today get their water from the glaciers, but glaciers nowadays are drying up day by day because more heat is absorbing the water. On the other hand, growing population on earth also affected global warming by allowing greenhouse gases to clog up the atmosphere. Population on earth can grow without any harm by avoiding any unneeded pollution, such as allowing greenhouse gasses to wonder freely affecting our atmosphere which results into global warming.

Lots of different views have been put on global warming, many of them are actually quite different and they do end up contradicting themselves. Looking at what Helen O'Hara says, we understand that Global warming is a major concern, which many of the leading industrial countries today are dealing with. Helen also supports Al Gore’s views about global warming being the main reason for today’s climate change. On the other hand, Scott does not support Al Gore’s ideas about global warming thinking they were not true. He claims that Al Gore used a dramatic approach to the problem; he saw this method as an escape and not a way to deal with today’s climate change problem.

All in all, we all need to act towards this issue immediately; because time is running out and the more we wait the more we lose.

Bibliography:-

An Inconvinent Truth.Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Pref. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount Classics,2006.

Helen O'Hara,http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/ReviewComplete.asp?FID=134187

Scott,http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/review.php?movieID=inconvenienttruth

Cool City

After watching the “Cool City” video, we understand that there has been many problems since the start of economic development, such as CO2 emissions and population pressure. If we don’t solve these problems we’ll suffer very much, we have to reduce all CO2 by atleast 50%. 

In Japan, GDP has increased by up to 100%, energy efficeny was increased by 37% and oil consumption has been decreased by 8%.90% of CO2 in the air today comes from buildings and transportation.

Cool city is a very eco-friendly city with low CO2 emissions which is going to be built by SDCJ, which is a Japanease company. The Cool City consists of three zones, which are: business, commercial and residential. The transport system which would be used in the Cool City consists of transit rail, solar water taxis and hybrid cars, there will also be used techniques to reduce heating such as waterways, rooftop membranes and tree planting.

Hopefully, if everything goes as planned the excpected CO2 reductions are 50% for eco towers and 30% for eco residences, with total CO2 reduction to be at 60%.

My opinion:-

In my honest opinion, I totally do agree that Cool City is a must-have project, it would save our planet eventually. Having a clean environment is very necessary, most of the world’s sickness today comes from pollution therefore it’s our responsibility to eliminate it.

European Initiative

Summary

A)

The EU countries have agreed to lower their carbon dioxide emissions by 20% by year 2020, and it would be done by using renewables such as water,air,tidal power and biofuels. Nuclear power, clean coal and renewables are the main types of energy to be used.After the year 2010 all power stations in Europe should eliminate carbon emissions and carbon emissions from cars should be reduced from the start of next year.Even farmers can now help reduce carbon emissions by growing plants for biofuel which is considered 10% of all petrol. Today, new limits for carbon emissions are set and as a result carbon prices have increased. Renewable energy is very expensive, wind disturbs natural habitats and mass befouling in the Amazon could destroy it’s rain forests. Miliband introduced a climate change plan, which will help Britan to cut carbon emissions by 60% by the year 2050.

In December, the UN will hold a meeting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which will include most of the world’s countries.

Main Idea

B)

The EU countries are one of the leading countries in bio-pollution, therefore many treaties have been set in order to help the continent deal with its carbon emissions. Lots of different ways have been implemented, which should be taken into consideration very soon for it to work and cut down the total emissions.

Comment

C)

I do support the EU actions, because we really need to do what’s possible for us to live in a happier,safer and greener environment.

My carbon footprint

I measured my carbon footprint at http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ and it was 3.15 planets.

My carbon footprint is considerd quite good when compared to the rest of my classmates; most of my classmates scored about 3.5-4.5; and I was less than the average so I believe I did well compared to the rest of the class.

Carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gasses caused by individuals, organizations and products.

We can reduce our carbon footprint in many ways. First is the food we consume; we can arrange to eat in a very moderate and considerable fashion; for example we can eat more vegetables instead of dairy products; that is one way to reduce you’re carbon footprint. Another way to reduce carbon footprint is to use cars which emit lesser gases; that way we can have less car pollution which will reduce our carbon footprint effectively. You can also decrease the carbon footprint by using fewer electronics; there’s no need for extra lighting in most places therefore by removing the useless electricity you can save a huge amount of electricity which will reduce your carbon footprint by a huge amount.

An Inconvenient Truth - Movie Review -

The Good:

Helen O'Hara,(http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/ReviewComplete.asp?FID=134187), supports Al Gore’s speech in his movie completely, saying it was powerful,intelligent and entertaining. She sees this film as a solution to the world’s nature disasters. Helen claims that Al Gore can turn a very boring topic into a very entertaining one, which makes this movie a must-watch for everyone. Not only scientists; but everyone and anyone. She also liked how he managed to portray his movie as a wake-up call to the world’s community and not a comeback from the loss he had in his previous presidential campaign.

The Bad:

Scott,(http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/review.php?movieID=inconvenienttruth), clearly did not enjoy the movie as much as Helen did. He views Al Gore with the complete opposite view Helen has for him. Firstly he sees Al Gore’s speech as something quite irrelevant to global warming, because Al Gore was selling himself off as a saint and a possible future candidate for presidency. One more point which Scott didn’t enjoy, was the fact that Al Gore tried to tie in his family deaths into his speech for the crowd’s sympathy; that wasn’t really necessary at all since it would not help raise the awareness of the global disaster but only beg for our pity.

My Opinion:

I honestly must agree with Helen. Al Gore’s documentary was truly amazing. I enjoyed how Al Gore managed to turn a very boring scientific subject into a very entertaining one to enjoy. He also is a great speaker, calm and intelligent.

An Inconvenient Truth - Voicethread -

An Inconvenient Truth

The inconvenient truth, is truth that is causing us troubles; truth that if ignored would result into a catastrophe. We need to wake up to the inconvenient truth of global warming before it gets too late.“Al” Gore, is an environmentalist who served the United States of America as the 45th Vice President from 1993-2001 under President Bill Clinton.He’s an author,businessman and former journalist, he also has produced his own documentary titled, “The Inconvenient Truth”.

The majority of the landmass and vegetation today lies above the equator, unfortunately if the world remains as careless, there won’t be much of it at all. 40% of the people in the world today get their water from the oceans, but oceans nowadays are drying up day by day because more heat is absorbing the water ; which is because of global warming. On the other hand, growing population on earth also affect global warming by allowing greenhouse gasses to clog up the atmosphere with carelessness. Population on earth can grow freely without any harm by avoiding any unneeded pollution, such as allowing greenhouse gases to wonder freely affecting our atmosphere which results into global warming.

I’ve personally found this documentary intelligent, humorous and informative. It was well put, it suited different audiences; such as the cartoon scene and then there was the informative graph. Both scenes portrayed the same idea, but in different ways for the different audience. It was perfect!

An Introduction to Global Warming

Global warming is basically classified as the environmental climate change, increasing the temperature on earth because as the earth is getting hotter, disasters like hurricanes, droughts and floods are getting more frequent. One of the main problems of global warming is not how much the world is warming but how fast it is warming. Carbonic emissions and other harmful gases released from fuel exhausts and greenhouse emissions disrupt the ozone layer,

increasing global temperature and causing sea levels to rise due to thermal expansion,melting of glacier sheets,warming of the ocean surface, leading to increased temperature stratification, ravaging crops,flooding coastlines and oceans.

 

The ocean which serves as a sink for carbon dioxide, takes up more than would otherwise remain in the atmosphere; therefore increased levels of CO2 have led to ocean acidification. Furthermore, as the temperature of the oceans increase, they become less able to absorb excess CO2. Global warming is projected to have a number of effects on the oceans.

About Me

My name is Abdulrahman Al Amiri; I’m 21 years old; I was born in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in Al Corniche Hospital on the 10th of July 1987. The first four years of my life I lived in Sharjah, Turfanah then in 1991 I moved to Abu Dhabi because my father works in ADCO oil shore company. I studied in Abu Dhabi International School and there I did my Kindergarten years and then I transferred to The International School of Choueifat and there I did grade 1-12. Afterwards I studied in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for 1 year where I studied Political Sciences in the Dalhousie University; afterwards I went back to Abu Dhabi and now I’m studying Marketing in the Abu Dhabi’s Men College; currently I’m in the Higher Diploma program but I aim to finish off my studies with a Masters degree in Marketing. I have lots of hobbies such as playing chess and video games. My favorite sports are football and golf and I practice playing these sports regularly every weekend.

In our project, we are to think critically and analytically about the issues of climate change and global warming. I personally think climate change is mainly affected by global warming and the reasons for global warming are many, which not everyone is aware of today, but it could lead to a future catastrophe if we are to ignore this big issue.