Posted on 06/15/2007 9:22:59 AM PDT by fightinbluhen51
Our school study of global warming started with lots of questions. What is global warming? What is happening now? What might happen in the future? What can each of us do to help? Why should we care? What will the future look like?
A small group of students at our school has been researching and studying the effects of global warming. The evidence and data we collected is so overwhelming that we have decided to write about this issue.
We want everyone to help curb Global warming. It truly means that the Earth is getting warmer. The ocean is warming at such an alarming rate that the continents are in danger.
Such a warming of the ocean is fuel for more severe hurricanes such as Katrina. Katrina was only a Category 1 storm when it crossed Florida. It became a monster storm by feeding off the extremely warm water in the Gulf of Mexico.
Not just the ocean temperature, but also the overall temperature on the planet is rising to dangerous levels.
The 10 "hottest" average years on record have occurred within the last 14 years. We continue to see record carbon dixoide levels in the atmosphere year after year. Just notice the strange weather around us this winter and spring and even summer-like days in March.
The United States is the leading contributor to the global-warming crisis, producing one-third of the total greenhouse gases in the world, more than South America, Africa, Asia and Australia combined.
Please think about what people are doing and what could happen if they do not stop.
Have we ever wondered what life might be like in 50 to 100 years? We might have imagined big robotic cities and flying cars, but I bet we didn't imagine huge cities and tall skyscrapers underwater. Well, that's what life will be if we keep burning fossil fuels without thought.
Here are some facts that might help people realize the danger we are facing.
Glaciers are melting at a faster and faster rate and glaciers are a huge source of the world's drinking water. Greenland and the Arctic ice shelf are melting faster each year and will disappear in our lifetime if our fossil fuel usage continues unchecked. That melting will raise the water level of the world's oceans nearly 40 feet. Basically, Manhattan would be underwater.
Hopefully, people will understand the danger we are facing. Do Mainers want this to be our future? Although global warming is a huge pending global disaster, we all have the means to change it together.
Because the United States contributes one-third of the carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, here are seven sensible ways to save our seven beautiful continents:
nChange light bulbs to long lasting fluorescents and save 150 pounds of CO per year in every household.
nDrive less and save 1 pound of CO for every fewer mile.
nSave 2,400 pounds of CO by recycling plastics and paper.
nPlant a tree -- it breathes over a ton of helpful gases per lifetime.
nTurn off any electrical items (TV, games, cell phones, lights, etc.) when not in use to save 1,000 pounds of CO.
nBe informed -- go to www.stopglobalwarming.org or www.climatecrisis.net.
nStay informed -- Watch Planet Earth (kids) and An Inconvenient Truth (families).
Is our future already chosen for us? We are all young students, ages 9-11, and cannot change the world like adults can. All the facts we have presented are true, real, and will shape our future unless decisive action is taken.
We will be in great danger if we don't get this problem in the minds of all people and curb the unchecked growth of greenhouse gas emissions.
It is our future our nation is playing with, so please change the way people are playing. We encourage everyone to take action and stop global warming.
Greenland is melting? It’s solid ground.
Indoctrination works well. Any child that gets exposed to this garbage day after day soon grows up believing ANYTHING they are told.
Sending kids to government schools is very close to child abuse.
I could well imagine 5 kids totally indoctrinated by their “teachers” and parents mindlessly repeating the lies they are being fed.
There are trace amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
The only time I’ll trust a child that young is to tell them to call 911.
There are trace amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
The only time I’ll trust a child that young is to tell them to call 911.
WHY are the effects of global warming considered to be universally “bad”? This would beem to be a GREATER overall benefit, for species diversity, for energy distribution and generation, for opening new frontiers in science and leisure. Think a worldwide California sunshine scenario.
Why shouldn’t they believe it?
A 5th grader (AlGore) told them about it!
Best responce yet!
If this is what our latest generation has to offer...I am truely scared for the rest of us.
Sounds like they just copied it from algore’s web page.
Everyone knows the US doesn’t contribute CO2 to the atmosphere. We remove one third of CO2 that comes to our Western border as it passes over us.
I’m guessing the teacher is a fruitcake.
The kids should be asking for all of the new high temperature records that are being set.
If the US is warmer, it should show up on a thermometer right?
... an event that grows ever more likely as their parents continue to vote for DemocRATs who want to surrender America's sovereignty and destroy our ability to defend ourselves ...
The ice melts and the Atlantic ocean rises 40 feet; the students assume Manhattan will be underwater; Central Park is currently 86 feet above sea level.
Your public school funds at work: indoctrinating children so they may become mindless little collectivist twits spouting socialist eco-babble for their teachers’ approval. Much like trained seals offered herring snacks for spinning a ball on their nose and clapping their flippers together. But seals can’t ask questions and one wonders what becomes of the occasional child who expresses doubt or disbelief.
Hey, its great news. They think they are doomed, lets cut funding....(chuckle)
Not only is it solid ground, but snow melting is GOOD for Greenland. Agriculture, mining, and tourism all benefit from less snow pack.
These are the same people who will sign a petition calling for the ban of that dangerous chemical, di-hydrogen oxide (DHO). A common industrial solvent that has killed hundreds of people who are exposed to it. Industry has carelessly dumped so much DHO into the environment that traces of DHO are found everywhere on the globe. A proven greenhouse gas.
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