Do you know or do you ever heard about global warming???
Of course you are (i think...). We should STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!!! why???
Because there's a lot bad fact about our earth, such as:
♥ If you throw away 2 aluminum cans, you waste more energy than 1,000,000,000 (one billion) of the world's poorest people use a day.
♥ Making a new can from scratch uses the uses the energy equal to half a can of gasoline.
♥ About one third of what an average American throws out is packaging.
♥ More than 1,000,000,000 (one billion) trees are used to make disposable diapers every year.
♥ In one minute, 50 acres of rainforest are destroyed.
♥ Some rain has a pH of 3 or 4. (which is pretty acidic, considering 7 is neutral, not acidic, and battery acid has a pH of 1). Some fish, such as lake trout and smallmouth bass, have trouble reproducing at a pH of 6, which is only slightly acidic. Some clams and snails can't survive at all. Most crayfish are dead at a pH of 5. You can see how bad this is for the environment.
♥ On average, a person in the US uses energy two times more than a person in Japan or West Germany does, and 50 times more than a person in India.
♥ About 90% of the energy used in lighting a standard (incandescent) light bulb is lost as heat.
♥ Air conditioning uses 10 times more energy than a fan, therefore, it creates 10 times the pollutants.
♥ It takes half the output of the Alaskan pipeline to heat the air that escapes from all the homes in the US during a year.
♥ Cars and pick-up trucks are responsible for about 20% of the carbon dioxide released into the air.
♥ There are about 500 million automobiles on the planet, burning an average of 2 gallons of fuel a day. Each gallon releases 20 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air.
♥ About 80% of our trash goes to landfills, 10% is incinerated, and 10% is recycled.
♥ Since there is little oxygen underground, where we bury our garbage, to help bacteria eat the garbage, almost nothing happens to it. Scientists have dug into landfills and found ears of corn still intact after 20 years, and newspapers still readable after 30.
♥ The average American makes about 3.5 pounds of trash a day.
♥ In a year, the average American uses as much wood in the form of paper as the average resident of the developing world burns as fuel.
Did you know that tree with 25-59 m high have 57.000 of water inside the root???
Every hour or even every second a lot of people are cutting the trees in the forest! That can caused flood or even other disaster!! It caused by the trees that people cut it!!!
Some of scientific has conclude, if we don't care anymore about our earth, it degrees will turn into 250 C (degrees) or we can call it " the VENUS twins"...
Some of scientific has conclude, if we don't care anymore about our earth, it degrees will turn into 250 C (degrees) or we can call it " the VENUS twins"...
The seas. Now talking about about the seas. What is the result of global warming to the seas?
(copied from nationalgeographic.com)
John Roachfor National Geographic News
March 23, 2006
March 23, 2006
Water from melting ice sheets and glaciers is gushing into the world's oceans much faster than previously thought possible, sending scientists scrambling to explain why. The unexpected deluge is raising global sea levels, which scientists say could eventually submerge island nations, flood cities, and expose millions of coastal residents to destructive storm surges.
By the end of this century the seas may be three feet (one meter) higher than they are today, according to a pair of studies that appear in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science. "After that we'll be committed to multiple more meters of sea level rise that will occur at rates of up to a meter—or three feet—per one hundred years," said Jonathan Overpeck, an earth scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who co-authored the studies. "And it could go faster," he added. But scientists don't know if it will. They believe global warming triggered the ice's seaward gallop, but they say the dynamics at play are poorly understood. "We did not expect that the ice sheets can react to warming on such a short time scale," said Konrad Steffen, a geographer at the
University of Colorado at Boulder who has spent the past 15 years monitoring ice sheets in Greenland.
Scientists thought ice sheets and glaciers would respond to warming slowly over hundreds of years. The current acceleration could be a short-term adjustment to the warmer temperatures, Steffen said. "Something dramatic is happening," said Göran Ekström, a seismologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ekström and colleagues report tomorrow in Science that glacial earthquakes—seaward lurches of glaciers—in Greenland have more than doubled in number since 2002. Most of the glacial earthquakes occur in July and August, at the height of the Northern Hemisphere's summer melt. The finding complements a study published in Science last month that found some of Greenland's glaciers have doubled in speed over the past five years, said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Zwally added that both findings are "alarming" given that Earth has only experienced the full effects of greenhouse gases for about a decade. "As these changes take place, we're still in the process of learning what happens to the ice. We are discovering new things," he said.
Ancient Rise
About 130,000 years ago, global sea levels were 13 to 20 feet (4 to 6 meters) higher than they are today. Scientists have determined this by studying ancient coral reefs that now sit high and dry, and other so-called paleo-climate clues. The University of Arizona's Overpeck and his colleagues wanted to understand what sort of climate conditions were necessary to create such high sea levels. Scientists believe that Earth's orbit had shifted slightly at the time, giving the Northern Hemisphere greater exposure to the sun. When Overpeck's team plugged those orbital conditions into a computer model, they found the Arctic warmed 5º to 8ºF (3º to 5ºC), sufficient to melt enough Arctic ice to explain the sea level rise.
But the researchers also know how much the Greenland ice sheet, which holds most of the Arctic water, melted at the time. When they plug that data into the model, the melt only accounts for 7.2 to 11.2 feet (2.2 to 3.4 meters) of the water rise. "That means we got a substantial amount [of water] from Antarctica," Overpeck said. "And that is a big discovery."
But the researchers also know how much the Greenland ice sheet, which holds most of the Arctic water, melted at the time. When they plug that data into the model, the melt only accounts for 7.2 to 11.2 feet (2.2 to 3.4 meters) of the water rise. "That means we got a substantial amount [of water] from Antarctica," Overpeck said. "And that is a big discovery."
The finding suggests that, even though the Antarctic itself did not warm, the ocean warming and sea level rise in the Arctic were sufficient to drive melting in Antarctica. When the team used the same climate model to predict what will happen over the next 140 years from increasing greenhouse gases, they found that by 2100 the Arctic will be at least as warm as it was 130,000 years ago. But unlike 130,000 years ago, today's atmospheric warming is global. "So it will be even more conducive to melting parts of the Antarctic ice sheet in the future than it was 130,000 years ago," Overpeck said. "And indeed that jibes nicely with a lot of observations coming in that suggest parts of the Antarctic ice sheet are already melting."
Irreversible Decline?
According to Zwally, the NASA glaciologist, humans can limit the effects of global warming by acting now to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. But if we continue to pollute at the current pace, he says, by the end of the century the Greenland ice sheet and part of Antarctica could be undergoing irreversible decline. "Man is doing an experiment with the ice sheets, which is a scientifically interesting experiment, except it is going to have some serious consequences," he said. "And the longer we wait to do something about climate warming, the more serious it's going to be."
This is just not forest, this just not trash, this is not just human, this is just not flood, this is just not seas, and this is just not EARTH!! So, what do you do now? Stay with what you are doing now or working to help earth??
These are the thing that you can do to save our mother earth :
1. Turn off lights.
2. Turn off other electric things, like TVs, stereos, and radios when not in use.
3. Use rechargable batteries.
4. Do things manually instead of electrically, like open cans by hand.
5. Use fans instead of air conditioners.
6. In winter, wear a sweater instead of turning up your thermostat.
7. Insulate your home so you won't be cold in winter.
8. Use less hot water.
9. Whenever possible, use a bus or subway, or ride your bike or walk.
10. Try to buy organic fruits and vegetables if you're concerned about pesticides. (Organic food is
grown without man-made fertilizers and/or pesticides).
11. Don't waste products made from forest materials.
12. Use recycled paper and/or recycle it. Reuse old papers.
13. Don't buy products that may have been made at the expense of the rainforest.
14. Support products that are harvested from the rainforest but have not cut down trees to get
it.
15. Plant trees, espessially if you have cut one down.
16. Get other people to help you in your cause. Make and/or join an organization.
17. Avoid products that are used once, then thrown away.
18. Buy products with little or no packaging.
19. Encourage your grocery store sell environmentally friendly cloth bags for people to use when they shop, or bring your own.
20. REDUCE, REUSE, & RECYCLE.
21. Compost.
22. Buy recycled products.
23. Don't buy pets taken from the wild.
24. If you have a good zoo nearby, (if the animals are healthy and the zoo takes care of them),
support it! Espessially if they help breed endangered animals.
25. Don't buy products if animals were killed to make it.
26. Cut up your six-pack rings before throwing them out.
To save our mother earth please join the Rainforest Petition :
http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_article.php?id=58
http://www.saveourearth.co.uk/soe_article.php?id=58
Regina, Me, Marsha, Tiara, and Intan
