Earth and Climate Change

Climate change is affecting our ecosystem is ways both immediate and prolonged, such as the melting of glaciers and the higher occurrence of natural disasters. Climate change also has an effect on the human population as well. It can cause phenomena such as poor planting seasons, floods, and decreased water sources. 

Menaul School could try to spread more awareness about issues like this in order to aid in this cause. I can also attempt to lessen my carbon footprint.

My carbon footprint was 24 tons of CO₂, below the US national average. This did not surprise me. Menaul School's carbon footprint should be much larger. However, it can still be lessened through more efficient ways of using materials.

Earth

Global warming and climate change are very bad because they melt glaciers, and cause extreme weather conditions. With the melting of glaciers and antartica's ice, we could see parts of continents and islands disaster from all he water. It also does not give animals such as polar bears a place to live. Also, with the raise in temperatures, it is harder to grow crops to feed the increasingly large population.  To help the environment, and reduce global warming, menaul school could continue recycling, give incentives for riding to school or carpooling, and any other thing that might help the environment. Big or small.

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Some of the primary concerns regarding climate change are: the ice caps melting in the arctic , green house gas emissions on the rise and  evidence of global warming. Another concern around global climate change is deforestation   around the world. We need to replant trees and  help regenerate the forests.

The damaging effects that are projected to have  impact on the environment, and therefore on  the earth's human population include the following:  some the earth's islands will flood and become one with the ocean, less drinking water, small countries will disappear, and storms will become more severe.

What could Menaul School do to help be part of the solution to global climate change? What can you do?

I think that we should be required to bring a water bottle to school and we should stop spending money on disposable  plastic bottles. We should use less paper and use cloth napkins and rags as well as  have hand  dryers in the bathrooms.  We should have more recycling bins across campus. We should reward the teachers and students for recycling and make it fun.  We should continue our garden for use in the preparation of food in the cafeteria.
 I should recycle more and  pay more attention to my water use.

global warming

Global warming is an one of the serious issues that we need to solve. The top scientist in UN concluded our climate are changing.and it will effect our future so we shouldn't ignore it.

Global warming is mainly cause of human activity including burning fossil fuels, cutting down so many trees for industry.
and it make ocean to heat up and melting the ice. Also In the ocean and on the land all of species threatening and some of them may disappear forever because of the global warming.

To prevent global warming the school can Turn off lights in empty classrooms and offices
Turn off all lights at night.
Turn off all computers and other equipment when nobody is using them.

Global Warming: A Way Forward: Facing Climate Change

1. What are some of the primary concerns about climate change - What damaging effects is it projected to have on the environment, and therefore, on earth's human population?

A.   Some concerns that might be are the server weather storms, and  how the weather storms are becoming regularly. Then there who are  people cutting down forests at a fast rate and destroying many of our rain forests. There is also the concern of factories that pollute the air we breathe. 


B. The effects we have on the earth is that we have to produce more of a certain things to sustain our growth in population, and thus polluting our environment further. There is also the effect of using up all of the resources to produce a certain necessities for living. The effect is also that we have polluted many of our water ways and our air that we breathe too. This could cause our children and their's after them that they have to deal with the effects of the air on them as well.

2. What could Menaul School do to help be part of the solution to global climate change? What can you do?


A. I think that Menaul School could do to help be a part of being the solution to global climate change is in a series of simple and easy steps. We could  find a different mode of transportation than polluting the air even more. Next we could cut back on the consumption of mass production like stop buying named brands that we know of.  Then we could not by bottle water due to proven facts, but yet we still do. Then cut back on consumption of water use and other necessities like lighting of our homes. Finally, we could research on other good ways to be apart of the solution of global warming. 

3. Find out what your carbon footprint is at this link - http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/index.htm - Did the results surprise you? What do you think Menaul School's carbon footprint is - how could we make that better?

A. My Behavior breakdown was Home Energy (93.7%),Driving & Flying (0.0%),Recycling &Waste(1.0%), and Food & Diet (5.4%). I was surprised by how much I leave on the environment, and how much a U.S. average person I'am out of. I was 5.5 out of the total world, so that was pretty good. I think that Menaul's carbon foot print probably pretty bad, and that's what I'm guessing

GLOBAL WARMING

        Global  warming heats the earth and water and in doing so melts ice. There are a lot of large body's of ice on this earth, so much that if all of it melted the sea level wold rise significantly and sink the 4/5 of the earths population that live on the coast into the sea.   
        To prevent this from happening the world must lower its carbon footprint. Menaul can use more fuel officiant cars and use more earth save ways to obtain energy such as solar panels and windmills.

What are some of the primary concerns about climate change - What damaging effects is it projected to have on the environment, and therefore, on earth's human population?

some concerns are the server weather storms and how they are becoming regularly and then people cutting down Forrest's and having huge factories polluting the air. the more we grow the more we have to produce and the more the earth gets dirtier.  

What could Menaul School do to help be part of the solution to global climate change? What can you do?

 menaul could  stop using plastic water bottles then opening more windows instead of using the air conditioner. and also like not spend money on rocks but instead on more efficient ways to keep the school clean. for me i think kinda do the same only more just watching out what im doing to the environment.