Global warming

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Global warming

• Stop and think!
• Were killing our world faster each
• day!

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The green house effect!

• Most of the sun's energy that reaches the earth
  is absorbed by the oceans and land masses and
  radiated back into the atmosphere in the form of
  heat or infrared radiation. Most of this infrared
  energy is absorbed and reradiated by atmospheric
  gases such as water vapor and carbon dioxide.
  This phenomenon, referred to as the greenhouse
  effect (below), serves to keep the earth some
  33C (60F) warmer than it would otherwise be. As
  concentrations of gases that absorb and reradiate
  infrared energy (i.e., greenhouse gases GHGs)
  increase, the warming effect increases.

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What we can do to help our environment ! The
problem is far more serious than we think.

• Researchers claim that global warming is real and
  the whole world will be in danger unless
  corrective measures being timely taken.
• How?   It is simple. We can switch off the light
  as we leave the office or home for a considerable
  period of time? We can share cars when we go to
  the same direction and/or meetings? We can leave
  the screen off, when we do not use the computer?

• We could turn of TV's.videos we could use
  rechargeable batteries than buy new ones each
  time.
• we could walk each day to school or work,walk to
  the near by places we want to visit.
• Go on family walks to see the country side.
• Enjoy life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The graph!

• The main reason for this sharp rise in global
  temperatures since the 1850s is thought to be a
  steep increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide --
  CO2 -- from human use of fossil fuels. The
  mechanism of our atmosphere is that gases like
  CO2 and methane reflect the sun's heat back onto
  the earth, heating it. This natural greenhouse
  effect made the earth warm enough for life. Ice
  core records show that whenever CO2 has increased
  in the earth's past, so has temperature. In the
  last century atmospheric CO2 has risen steadily,
  and unnaturally, to above 370 parts per million,
  the highest level in more than 650,000 years.

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Kyoto summit!

• KYOTO, Japan (Dec. 10) - Following are the main
  elements of the newly approved Kyoto Protocol to
  the 1992 Climate Change Treaty, approved after 11
  days of arduous negotiations.
• gtgt Reductions Thirty-eight industrialized
  nations are required to reduce their
  ''greenhouse'' gas emissions from 1990 levels
  between 2008 and 2012. The European Union would
  reduce them by 8 percent, the United States by 7
  percent and Japan by 6 percent.
• gtgt Some would face smaller reductions, and a few
  would not face any now. As a group, the nations
  would cut back on the emissions of such gases by
  just more than 5 percent.
• gtgt Gases Involved Emissions of six gases would
  be affected carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous
  oxide, and three halocarbons used as substitutes
  for ozone-damaging chlorofluorocarbons.
• gtgt Offshore' Reductions Countries that do not
  meet their own emission targets can strike deals
  with nations that do better than required, to buy
  the excess ''quota.'' This may encourage
  reductions to be made where most cost-effective.
• gtgt Enforcement A later meeting of the treaty
  parties will decide on ''appropriate and
  effective'' ways to deal with non-compliance.
• gtgt Third World Developing countries, including
  major greenhouse gas emitters such as China and
  India, are asked to set voluntary reduction
  targets 
• gtgt Next Step The accord approved by the Kyoto
  conference takes effect once it is ratified by 55
  nations, representing 55 percent of 1990 carbon
  dioxide emissions. It is binding on individual
  countries only after their governments' complete
  ratification.

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TOGETHER!

• Lets work together and try and make our world a
  safer place for us and everyone and everything
  around us!make youre life healthier,make the
  world a better place..