Thursday, April 23, 2009

My Carbon Footprint

My overall carbon footprint is 3.18.

The carbon that I measured is by:

• Home

• Travel

• Stuff

The carbon footprint that I created in my life is done by many things. And I will explain most of the things I did in life in how carbon footprint was created.
The measure of carbon footprints is done by several of things that I did in life. One of them is when I drove a car I consumed a lot of energy regularly during the day. Although it generally depends on how much I drove the car. Sometimes I drive over 2 or 3 hours a day. But, instead of driving most of my time when I want reduce the carbon is going out on foot. This was one of the ways that have reduced the carbon footprint in my life. Another thing is when I’m at home. A lot of carbon is created when trying to heating up the food. Also when using the electricity at home, I usually kept the electricity on. However now a day when I usually leave I try to turn them off as possibly as I could in order to prevent carbons. At other times when I buy new products from the shops and buy a lot of unnecessary things. Occasionally these products that I’ve bought may not be useful to me in the future and when these waste goes to the land fill areas they are sometimes burned or recycled and could be buried underground. When they burn or recycle them they create a lot of carbon and this adds up my carbon footprint also when burying them it often creates hazardous gases such as methane and carbon.

In conclusion, I have created a lot of carbon footprint in my life, but most of the time I try to reduce my carbon footprint by denying the things that stand in my way in creating carbon footprint.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Global Warming Crisis

An Inconvenient Truth

Brandon Fibbs says that the scientists around the world believe that global warming is affecting the world and is making the earth become hotter. Also this brings chaos to the earth system. There is a short amount of time to solve everything, and change life back the way it was before.

He also says that they is much evidences within the movie that Al Gore showed, and he expressed his views about this crisis. He showed many photos and proved them with facts and charts. He tried to convince the people with all of his knowledge; while he convinced them he showed them a lot of different types of charts and also the past and the present and the result of this if it keeps happening. Many problems will occur around the world such as floods, storms, extinction, increase of refugees and climate change also many others.

Now the unfavorable review of what Scott says:
Scott Says it’s more about Al Gore than climate change because for most part of the movie Al Gore shows most of his past life and how he changed and what affected his life. He also shows about his family side and talks about them when it has nothing to do with global warming.
Another thing Scott adds is Al Gore makes political jokes on the republicans and George Bush which might make the republicans angry and also offend them. If he was trying to convince the people he wouldn’t have made jokes or show what he did in his life; he would have told the people about global warming

My opinion about the movie is that it was a great movie and I liked the way he presented and brought the evidence and all the important facts about global warming. Also what I liked about it is that most of the information is linked and related to each other even when you realize the things from the past have an effective link to the future about global warming. Also I disagree about the negative things because I think Al Gore tried to show some of his past because he wanted to convince the people about the important people they have and also wants them to see a better place in life. Another thing I liked about him is how he approaches the audience in explaining the consequences of global warming in the future and how it is affecting the earth. Also he brought many solutions; if the world is convinced about global warming and works together we can change everything in such a short amount of time to how it was before and solve the problem of global warming. However, Al Gore used a phrase related to the crisis of global warming and he said that “it is not a political issue, but it is a moral issue”.