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Reflection

At first, i only know the meaning of global warming through its name, but now i know the global warming is caused mainly by the greenhouse effect, gases that contribute to the green house effect include water vapor (H2O), Nitrous oxide (N2O), Methane (CH4), and Carbon dioxide) and it happened since 1880. And the consequences of global warming, it causes flood, droughts, extreme weather... a lot of bad things. The research helped me gathered those informations through finding the right answer for the related questions like what is global warming? Why is global warming occurring ? How is Global warming affecting us ?...

Two new questions for the topic :

1. Can we reverse global warming ? If we can, how ?

I'm choosing this question because i'm curious and also it could fix the world since the Earth is already heavily impacted by the global warming

2. What is happening in China, why many places are so polluted ? And how is China addressing it.

I'm choosing this question because it impacts heavily on global warming. Despite being the biggest green energy producer, China still has many places that are extremely polluted.

The main point that must be emphasized :

The usage of alternative energy in order to prevent global warming
This must be emphasized because it is the only and the most effective way to prevent global warming that we all know or should know about it.

Video

The video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk2k-H2Tdeg&t=172s


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Question #5: What should we do about Global warming ?

There are various ways to prevent global warming such as :

• Replacing non-renewable with renewable energy sources (alternative energy: wind, solar...)
• Reduce your power consumption (carpooling, recycling and switching to more energy efficient lightbulbs.
• Eat yout food, don't buy more than you can eat.
• Write letters to your congressman: urging them to pass laws to cap carbon emissions and require companies to pay for the greenhouse gases they admit.
• Tell your friends to follow your example.
• Donate to organizations like 350.org and greenpeace who are working to prevent further damage caused by global warming.
• Walk more, use car less.
• Avoid burning all sorts of things as much as possible. Stop burning all those papers that no longer serve you or any garbage. One way to get rid of that trash is recycled.
• Reforest all areas of land. Nothing even if it costs us to plant two times a year one tree click in order to have a cleaner air.
• Recycling and reusing. Try to separate your trash so that we can recycle and become more useful things for yourself. Frankly this does not cost us anything. Recycle as much as you can, now man has many things that are recyclable and do not take advantage. One way to avoid the felling of trees would be this, buy and companies sell more recycled paper.
• Avoid throwing garbage in the environment. PTM, when you read something that says put litter in its place hasle casooo. Caring energy. Please! Turn off occasionally, but not only that tries to use the least possible electricity. Another good option is to buy energy saving light bulbs that save up to 75 percent pro energy than regular bulbs.
• Take care of the water. Sure, a choice but to care for the earth is conserve water. Our planets are covered mostly by water and imagine that everything would end. It saving energy also saves water. Take a quick shower, also be sure to wash your car with the hose, I do not think you do not have a put boat at home.
• Do not go down the toilet or how often you use it as trash. It may sound strange but it is true when a continuous flow toilet can waste up to 200 thousand liters of water per year. But you do not try to use it as a dump, the pot for that is. To show you that we can contribute anything.
• Educate. This is one of the most important, much more important that you teach your children and youth to raise awareness about what is happening to our planet. With this we try to have a better future thanks to them for they are the future.
• Create campaigns through the media and others. This is also essential, what we see is what most at home? Obviously the TV, if a worldwide campaign to show not a documentary or something to do about global consciousness would reach millions and millions of people will be created. It is expensive but it is something that is priceless. And so with any media the idea is to reach many people.
• Use Ecoogler, the truth is that there are hundreds of more important ways than using a search engine but I want it known. Ecoogler is based on Google search engine that whenever you search will be donating 1 leaf to restore forests. The sheet donate to think that very little but leaves 1,000,000 trees will make a donation to the association Aquaverde to repopulate the Amazon and forests around the world and that if significant

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10 Ways to Prevent Global Warming. (2015, 6 27). Retrieved from Let's Save Our Planet: http://nowsaveourplanet.blogspot.com/2015/06/10-ways-to-prevent-global-warming.html

http://nowsaveourplanet.blogspot.com/2015/06/10-ways-to-prevent-global-warming.html

Question #4: Is Global warming bad, or good ? How is it affecting us ?

(The question will provide informations about how Global warming is affecting our life)

Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are dying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. As the mercury rises, the climate can change in unexpected ways. In addition to sea levels rising, weather can become more extreme. This means more intense major storms, more rain followed by longer and drier droughts (a challenge for growing crops), changes in the ranges in which plants and animals can live, and loss of water supplies that have historically come from glaciers.

Melting glaciers, early snowmelt, and severe droughts will cause more dramatic water shortages, and increase the risk of wildfires in the American West.

Rising sea levels will lead to coastal flooding on the Eastern Seabroad, especially in Florida, and in other areas such as Gulf of Mexico

Forests, farms, and cities will face troublesome new pests, heat waves, heavy downpours and increased flooding. All those factors will damage or destroy agriculture and fisheries...

Question #3: What is the Paris Climate Accord ?

The Paris Climate Accord (aka the Paris Agreement or Paris Accord) is the world's first comprehensive climate agreement, went into effect on Nov. 4, 2016, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Enacted by former President Barack Obama. The Paris Agreement's central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degree C. Since the vast majority of climate scientists agree the Earth is warming due to an increase in greenhouse gases, much of which is produced by human activity, it's important that high-pollution nations like China, India, and the U.S. contribute to a global plan of action.

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/what-is-paris-climate-accord/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/01/531048986/so-what-exactly-is-in-the-paris-climate-accord

https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/what-is-the-paris-agreement

Question #2: Why is global warming occurring ?

Global warming occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants and greenhouse gases collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off the earth’s surface. Normally, this radiation would escape into space—but these pollutants, which can last for years to centuries in the atmosphere, trap the heat and cause the planet to get hotter. That's what's known as the greenhouse effect.

Gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect include:

• Water vapor. The most abundant greenhouse gas, but importantly, it acts as a feedback to the climate. Water vapor increases as the Earth's atmosphere warms, but so does the possibility of clouds and precipitation, making these some of the most important feedback mechanisms to the greenhouse effect.

• Carbon dioxide (CO2). A minor but very important component of the atmosphere, carbon dioxide is released through natural processes such as respiration and volcano eruptions and through human activities such as deforestation, land use changes, and burning fossil fuels. Humans have increased atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than a third since the Industrial Revolution began. This is the most important long-lived "forcing" of climate change.

• Methane. A hydrocarbon gas produced both through natural sources and human activities, including the decomposition of wastes in landfills, agriculture, and especially rice cultivation, as well as ruminant digestion and manure management associated with domestic livestock. On a molecule-for-molecule basis, methane is a far more active greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but also one which is much less abundant in the atmosphere.

• Nitrous oxide. A powerful greenhouse gas produced by soil cultivation practices, especially the use of commercial and organic fertilizers, fossil fuel combustion, nitric acid production, and biomass burning.

• Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Synthetic compounds entirely of industrial origin used in a number of applications, but now largely regulated in production and release to the atmosphere by international agreement for their ability to contribute to destruction of the ozone layer. They are also greenhouse gases.

Global warming is caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, and farming.

Burning fossil fuels

When we burn fossil fuels like coal, and gas to create electricity or power our cars, we release CO2 pollution into the atmosphere.

Australians are big producers of CO2 pollution compared to the rest of the world. Our level of CO2 pollution per person is nearly double the average of other developed nations and more than four times the world average.

Electricity generation is the main cause of carbon pollution in Australia as 73% of our electricity comes from burning coal and 13% from burning gas. The remaining 14% comes from renewable energy sources such as hydro, solar and wind, which do not emit carbon.

Reducing the amount of electricity generated from coal and gas, and increasing the amount of electricity from clean, renewable energy sources like solar and wind, means less carbon pollution is emitted. This is one of the main ways we can address global warming.

A large coal power station in the UK with barbed wire in the foreground © Global Warming Images / WWF

Deforestation

Plants play an important role in regulating the climate because they absorb carbon dioxide from the air and release oxygen back into it. Forests and bushland act as carbon sinks and are a valuable means of keeping global warming to 1.5°C.

But humans clear vast areas of vegetation around the world for farming, urban and infrastructure development or to sell tree products such as timber and palm oil. When vegetation is removed or burnt, the stored carbon is released back into the atmosphere as CO2, contributing to global warming. Up to one-fifth of global greenhouse gas pollution comes from deforestation and forest degradation.

Preventing deforestation as well as planting trees, through reforestation and afforestation, are important actions in the fight against global warming.

A huge swap is burnt in Indonesia © WWF-Indonesia / Komar

Farming

Animals, livestock like sheep and cattle, produce methane, a greenhouse gas. When livestock grazed at a large scale, as in Australia, the amount of methane produced is a big contributor to global warming.

Some that farmers use also release nitrous oxide, which is another greenhouse gas.

Australian farming contributes 16% of our total greenhouse gas emissions. Using different and different stock feeds can help to reduce farming's contribution to climate change.