Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Carbon Footprint

Carbon Footprint

A carbon footprint is a measure of our activities and rates it in a specific decimal number and it calculates the huge impact on our life. In this essay, I will show you how to calculate and measure the level of your carbon footprint.
We can measure our carbon footprint from different of sites, one of them is www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.com. This website asks you several questions about your life and what kind of activities you do. A carbon footprint ID made up of sum of two sections, the primary footprint and the secondary footprint. The primary footprint is a measure of our direct emissions of Co2 from the burning of fossil fuels and energy. The secondary footprint is a measure of indirect Co2 emissions from the whole lifecycle of all what we do.
I got a rate of 2.8 from another website called HerosoftheUAE.com although my classmates got higher bands then me which were 3.0, 3.2 and 3.5 Carbon footprints because I have a smaller family than them. This time I got a middle rate range in my group because of several reasons, which shows the different rate of shopping, using AC at home and using washing and drying machine than my other classmates.
In conclusion, the carbon footprint has a huge effect on our world which makes a lot of people think which also controls the greenhouse effect. So we have to hold a bit on our hands and try to decrease our rate in level of carbon emissions.



Bibliography:
1. Carbon footprint 4/28/09 <www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.com>
2. Heroes of the UAE 4/28/09 <www.herosoftheUAE.com>
3. Wikipedia 4/28/09 <www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_foorprint.com>

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Argument about Al Gore's Film



The move, “An Inconvenient Truth” of Al-gore has both positive and negative aspects. In this essay I will look at the reviews of “Inconvenient truth” film of Al-gore and I will discuss both sides of the argument.


Al Gore is trying to prove that, we are in a period of global warming, which is like trying to prove that grass is green with an abundance of evidence, or trying to kill a mosquito with an atomic bomb. Unfortunately, in addition, he is trying to get us to believe that man is responsible, and that in the United States have the ability to stop it if only we had the will, (Tony Medley) in Negative & Skeptical Reviews with rating 6/10.


Now there is no doubt we can solve this problem. In fact, we have a moral obligation to do so, (Gregg) in the film report. In “Climate Crisis” small changes to your daily routine can add up to big differences in helping to stop global warming. The time to come together to solve this problem is now.


In my opinion, I can’t agree more than what (Tony Medley) said and mentioned, because it may help people to move and look for a solution for the global warming issue. And about what (Gregg) said in his report because he didn’t like the film, it was so interesting that people couldn’t stop from watching it every day and scientists also learn from it.




Bibliography
· The Movie Reviews, Permalink (June 23, 2006)
· http://thinksmart.typepad.com/carbon_neutral_strategies/2006/06/negative_skepti.html
· Inconvenient Truth, (2006)
· http://www.climatecrisis.net/aboutthefilm/