globalwarmingsolution

Hello again fellow WIKI readers. My name is **October** as most of you already know and I’m currently attending the [|Amigos school] as an eighth grader. I’m doing this WIKI because recently our class had the opportunity to have a Scientist name Suzane Shaw visit our school and talk to us about the horrible effects of global warming and what we can do as young adults to help reverse these effects.

Suzanne Shaw if part of an organization called the [|“Union Of Concerned Scientists”]. This unique and wonderful organization works on ways to help make our environment a cleaner and healthier one for us to live in. They brain storm more efficient and cost-effective ways to help stop the processes or global warming.

Global warming is the slow increase in the average temperature of the Earth's surface. In a nutshell this means that as time goes on our Earth is getting hotter and hotter. The burning of fossil fuels and industrial pollutants most commonly cause global warming. Global warming has many negative effects. These can include a rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, increased flooding, increased droughts, worsen air quality, and the dieing off of many species.

Many common pollution sources are cars, the cutting down of trees, factories, humans and littering. The cutting down of tress especially hurts our environment because as you all probably know global warming means there is excess CO2 in the atmosphere. These trees serve as CO2 sponges sucking up the excess CO2 in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide levels are higher today than they have been over the past 600,000 years. If we continue on this destructive path our world will have four times the poor air quality days than we have now.

Although global warming affects the world as whole lets focus on where I personally live; Massachusetts. Usually in Massachusetts there are nine days over 90 degrees and one day over 100 degrees a year. Studies show that if we continue on this path by the years 2070 – 2099 we will have a total of twenty four days over 90 degrees and six days over 100 degrees a year. This would not only affect the fun winter activities that we get to enjoy living in the north part of the U.S.A. but it would also effect the animals and plants that are accustomed to the cold environment that Massachusetts has provided for such a long time.

The North Eastern part of the United States alone gives off more global warming admissions than Canada, The United Kingdom, Italy, South Korea, France, South Africa, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, Iran, Ukraine, Spain, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia. In particular Massachusetts helps a lot with this. 9 % of Massachusetts’s CO2 emissions are commercial, 36% are from transportation such as cars and busses, 9% is industrial, 29% is electrical power, and 18% is residential.

Global warming in an extremely big problem in our community. It is a human problem and it has a human solution. Together we can help. Remember, our future generations are depending on you to make a difference.

Thank you very much for taking your time to read my WIKI.

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