Carbon Footprint

In the past, people used simple equipments which have no effect to our environment to do work. However, nowadays most people use many natural resources without thinking about the consequences, or footprints, they will leave behind Carbon footprint is the amount of green house measured in CO2 units. This essay will describe my research on carbon footprints and make recommendation to reduce them.

The consumption of energy can be measured by different categories and it’s depending on person lifestyle. I went through 2 different websites that calculate carbon footprint. However these websites have their own questions to calculate carbon footprint, the main idea is the same. I calculated my carbon footprint by answering different question in food, travel, home and stuff (WWF) and my result was 2.28 plants. I used another website (Heroes of the UAE) and I got an average of 3.81 plants. My most consumption was in cooling, water heating and IT. The average was 3.045 and that’s mean if every one has the same lifestyle, we need 3 plants to survive.

I compared my result to the 3 of my classmate and I found out some similarities in energy consumption. The first classmate Nasser got 2.5 planets. His main energy consumption was in cooling and IT. The second classmate Abdul Rahman 2.17 plants and his main energy consumption were in cooling and water heating. The third classmate Mohammed Al Attas got 2.68 plants and his main consumption was in cooling and water heating. In the UAE, the weather mostly hot, therefore we see people consume more cooling energy and we have the highest carbon footprints in the world.

I recommend that we should look for another source power that has less effect on our environment. Furthermore, lifestyle is very important to reduce carbon foot print, therefore I should try to change it and be good to the environment by using less energy at home and outside.

Bibliography:

Heroes of the UAE. 16 Apr. 2009 http://www.heroesoftheuae.ae/en.

WWF Footprint Calculator. 16 Apr. 2009 http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/.

30 Apr. 2009 http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidGN_31102008_10255824/UAE%20tops%20world%20on%20per%20capita%20carbon%20footprint.

An Inconvenient Truth Argument

Mr. Al Gore who used to be the next president of the USA introduced the movie An Inconvenient Truth. This movie shows us how the Global Warming effected our environment in the past years and in the next 50 year where the effects will be. Although in my opinion, this issue is not one of the popularity but based on simple fact. Now I’ll outline the argument between negative and positive reviews.



At first I will deal with the negative review. Some scientists disagree with Mr. Al Gore in the rise of temperature because of CO. Scientist Patterson said that in 450 million years ago, the C level was 10 times higher than now however the Earth was in coldest period. Mr. Al Gore linked between the hurricanes and the global warming and Dr. William Gray said that is not true. At the end of the movie, more scare pictures and scenarios had come over therefore the movie lost the trustiness. (Behreandt)



On the other hand is the positive review. Global warming is true and this movie convinced million of people who don’t believe this issue to believe it. Melting of the glaciers and the movement of polar bars are the sign that the climate is getting warm year after another and many of scientists and environmentalists proof the reality of global warming. This documentary movie warns us and if we didn’t take a real action, many things in the world will change forever. (Sherman)



In conclusion I think that this movie is excellent because it shows us lot of things that we don’t know and how the global warming will affect our life if we didn’t take serious action. We must look for another source powers which will reduce the atmospheric temperature.



Bibliography:

Behreandt, Dennis. "Hot air." Hot air. 18 Oct. 2007. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-21140267_ITM>.



Sherman, Ted. "Movie reviews: An Inconvenient Truth." http://www.helium.com/items/249578-movie-reviews-an-inconvenient-truth.

Global Warming

Global Warming is one of the most controversial scientific issues of the twenty-first century. This is a problem that has serious economic, sociological, geopolitical, political, and personal implications. This very short introduction is an informative , up to date, and readable book about the predicate impacts to global warming and the surprises that could be in store for us in the near future. Increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (co2) can be observed in increasing the average surface temperature of the earth. The amount of carbon dioxide (co2) also increasr when we burn fossil fuels, like coal, oil and gas for electricity, transportation and heat. Cutting down forests and other industrial processes also cause atmospheric carbon dioxide to increase.
This Global Warming will cause serious damages like rise in sea level, longer period of drougth, melting of glaciers and increase in the number of storms.

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