Sunday, January 25, 2009
Final Word
President Barack Obama's Plan
Our new President Barack Obama showed us his plan to deal with the issue of climate change. The governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California already took action by creating a low carbon fuel standard. And Barack Obama wants to make Schwarzenegger plan to be a nationwide plan for the U.S. “This is our generation’s moment to save future generations from global catastrophe by creating a market for clean-burning fuels that can stop the dangerous transformation of our climate,” said Obama. People in New Hampshire and California are concern about global warming and already start using fuels that produce less carbon. Obama’s also said that in to year 2015, transportation would contain fuel with 5% less carbon, and then by 2020 10% less carbon. I agree with Mr. Schwarzenegger and Mr. Obama plan to stop Global warming. The less fuels of Carbon we could use the less Carbon dioxide we going to have in our Atmosphere. Because The United States is the largest consumer of oil.
Regions already being strike by Global Warming pt. 2
Source: http://www.sciam.com/topic.cfm?id=global-warming-and-climate-change
Regions already being strike by Global Warming pt.1
Global Warming is starting to Affected us. And we aren’t doing anything to stop it, and some of us don’t even care. Temperatures around the world are extreme. The four Seasons is mixing with different temperatures. A region in western Sudan is one of the places that are already being affecting by Global warming. Farmers are beginning to leave their fields. The Lands in Sudan are starting to break and other towns are going through a drought moment. The Gulf Coast is another region that is starting to show events of Global Warming. Hurricanes are starting to appear much more. In a Resident town in Italy more than 2,000 people suffered with high fever. Asian Tiger Mosquitoes were the cause. Malaria disease was spreading. In Northern Europe like Spain weather temperature is decreasing. The Wine Cultivation are being strike due to this temperatures. Ocean Surface is also rising up in Northern Europe.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Agriculture and Global Warming
Agricultural will have changes due to the Green house effect. It will be hard for us to produce food in the Global Warming environment. So it will not only be a bad news for human but also for domesticated animals. Crops will be hard to grow from the air gasses that the environment will have. “Agriculture itself is the major contributor to increasing methane and nitrous oxide concentrations in earth's atmosphere”. Earth’s soil will be damage to the actions of weather events such as floods. In 2003 Grain Productions have shortened. The Growth of crops have shown results during the last for years that crops haven’t been growing because long periods of drought. Sowing and harvesting will shorten from different temperatures. Plants will be starved with Carbon Dioxide air. It will also affect plant communities and may damage the plants in some of these communities. I think crop growers are going to suffered and will be hard to maintain a healthy Agriculture environment.
Sources: http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/208.htm
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2006/jan06/noaa06-013.html
Water Regions
source: http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/GLobal_Warming/Older/Water.html
Impacts and Deforestation
The world would have many impacts when the climate changes from the green house problem were facing. The Global average temperature has increase in the last years. “Global average surface temperature could be anywhere from 1.4 to 5.8°C (with a best estimate of 3°C) higher by the end of the 21st century.”I find this hard for our Earths ecosystem to control itself and to adapt to the climate changes. Deforestation will be one of the problems in the changing of climates. Deforestation means “A process of changing land use from forestry to a non-forest use”. About 99% of Forest has been lost in Western Europe. “In the 1980s global deforestation was estimated at 17 to 20 million hectares per year, equivalent to the size of Britain.” Our trees will struggle in the green house society especially because it absorbs Carbon Dioxide. I think healthy water would be one of the hardest to find during the Global warming effect.
Source: http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/GLobal_Warming/Older/Impacts.html