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My life is invisible

Farmers look right through me as if I were not there

Multitudes of other pallid chickens surround me in the shed

Never noticing me, never speaking to me

No one knows I exist amidst the bleak ocean of other hens

My life is invisible

My life is invisible

Does anyone care about my plight?

My frail, lifeless body

The legs that won’t hold me

The sadness that scars my heart

My life is invisible

My life is invisible

Nobody notices me

But then why would people notice me, me out of a million other chickens?

Why would they take notice of the smaller of the chickens, the weaker of the chickens?

Who would pay any notice to me?

My life is invisible

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have enjoyed this topic and have gotten a lot out of it. Not only have I learnt many things about planet earth, climate change and the environment, I have also learnt management skills, research skills and organisation skills. I have done a lot of research, using books, people and websites. I learnt all the effects of climate change which has been very interesting. It was a good change to do a project about something I don't usually do and helpful to learn new things. I am quite proud of my work, but I think I could have worked harder on my presentation instead of rushing it. We can learn from this because it teaches us what climate change is and how it is effecting us.

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Experiment:

Putting different gasses, oils and chemicals with coral to see how they react. Many coral has died in the oceans because of climate change.

Hypothesis: I think it will go grey and die as a result of the harsh chemicals it is being exposed to.

Equipment:

-Different types of coral from the sea

-Petrol, different types of chemicals and gasses

-fish tanks, one for each chemical or gas there is.

-notebook and pen to record findings, and camera to document the process

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Climate change, if not stopped soon, is going to be deadly and devastating to our precious planet. If we don't interfere with these terrible things soon, our planet will become more and more in peril. We are all a part of this problem, and we can all be a part of the solution.

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Question three: What are the effects of climate change?

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Question three: What are the effects of climate change?

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Some people are still under the impression that climate change is something that is unlikely to affect us, and it will do nothing but make the world a little warmer. This is definitely not the case. Warmer weather will bring crisis on the world. Warmer weather near the oceans surface fuels frequent, bigger hurricanes. A strong agreement is now emerging that climate change is leading to bigger, more frequent hurricanes. The number of hurricanes and tornadoes has rapidly increased in last few decades, and is making many people homeless, killing people and causing people to become severely injured. In 2004, scientists textbooks had to be rewritten because they said it was impossible to have hurricanes in the South Atlantic, but then a hurricane hit Brazil. Also in 2004, ten typhoons hit Japan. The previous record had been 6. 2004 was also the year that the All-time record for Tornadoes in the United States was broken. There has been a significant increase in category 4 and 5 hurricanes, (Five being the top category) With winds of more than 155 KM an hour. There were so many tropical storms and hurricanes in 2005 that we ran out of names for them! The world meteorological organisation had to start using letters of the Greek alphabet to name storms that continued into December, well past the normal hurricane season.

Polynesian countries that are low lying will soon be underwater and many people have already had to evacuate their homes. Scientists predict that Amsterdam would vanish. In the city of Calcutta, Bangladesh, 60 million people would be uprooted.

Because of drier soil and leaves, wildfires are becoming much more common. In addition, there is more lightning, which leads to wildfires. The number of wildfires in the Americas has gone from 2 in 1950-1959, to 10 in 1980-1989 to 47 in 1990-2000. Research shows this is due to climate change.

Droughts are also a problem because of climate change. In summer 2003, a heatwave in Europe killed 35,000 people! We are already seeing the heatwaves scientists say will become more common if climate change is not addressed. All over the world, counties are experiencing the highest temperatures on average. Many people die because of droughts.

Floods are also becoming drastically more common. Warmer water increases the moisture content in storms, and warmer air holds more moisture. From 1950 to 1960, there were less than 50 floods in Asia. In the 1990's, there were 325 floods! In july 2005, Mumbai, India recieved 37 inches of rain in 24 hours. Waters rose to 7 feet.It was by far the largest downpour any city in India had ever received in one day. The death toll in Western India reached 1000.

In central Africa there used to be a big lake. 40 years ago, it was the 6th biggest in the world. Countries bordering the lake relied on it for crops, irrigation, livestock and drinking water. Because of declining rainfall, it has shrunk to one 20th of it's original size! Many people died and became sick . In Malawi 5 million people faced starvation when rain failed to come. The US emits about a quarter of the worlds greenhouse gasses, and Africa only 2.5 percent! They are paying the price for our wrongs.

Did you know that lifeforms that carry infectious diseases may come to countries they usually don't visit because of warming temperatures? This would be disastrous to our health.

Glaciers and melting, polar bears are drowning because they cannot swim the distance between ice, and penguins are also dying for the same reason. Species will become extinct because of this. The most deadly cause of the recent, rapid destruction of coral reefs in believed by scientists to be higher ocean temperatures due to climate change. Everywhere you go, you can see the effects of climate change on our precious planet

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http://www.mfe.govt.nz/climate-change/overview-climate-change/about-climate-change

An inconvenient truth by Al Gore

My mum (Who is an environmental activist)

www.safe.org.nz

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Question two: Are humans the cause of climate change?

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Question two: Are humans the cause of climate change?

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over the past century and a half there has been a noticed and growing increase in greenhouse gas producing activities such as making giant factories and polluted our once clean air, agriculture and transportation, which contaminates the environment. These human-induced activities are increasing the level of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and causing the Earth not only to heat up, but to heat up at an alarming  rate. This recent warming can only be explained by the influence of humans. I think the reason it has gotten so bad over the last few decades is because of overpopulation.

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Earth’s atmosphere is made up of oxygen, a large amount of nitrogen and a small percentage of greenhouse gases.

Imagine you live in a greenhouse. Greenhouse gasses are like a blanket around the earth. They trap the light from the sun and make life on earth possible. If they were not there, too much heat would escape and the surface of the planet would freeze. However, increasing the concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere causes the earth to overheat and the climate to change.

This process is commonly known as global warming, but it is better to think of it as climate change because it will not only warm the planet, but also bring more extreme changes such a droughts, floods and fires. See question 3 for more information.

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Project: climate change is invisible because you can’t physically see it happening. I will make it visible by doing a ‘lift the flap’ where you lift flaps with everyday things like driving your car and see underneath the effects in has on the environment.

It will be bringing the invisible into the visible world.

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Climate change- an invisible destruction of our way of life

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Climate change- an invisible destruction of our way of life