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The worlds most disturbing problem is named global warming, why did it start? Well, unfortunately for us, a few inventions of ours, such as: cars, trucks and factories, caused our problem of global warming. This is because, the fossil fuels we use release carbon dioxide, and that CO2 (carbon dioxide) blocks the sunlight from getting out. When the sun hits the earth, around 45% is absorbed by our atmosphere and clouds and about 30% is reflected back into space by the earth’s surface. However with CO2 blocking it, the sunlight and radiation remains on earth heating up the overall climate year by year. This concludes into destroying the homes of polar bears and penguins.

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Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg was born in 3rd January 2003 and her current age is 17. Greta Thunberg was recently (5 days ago) speaking at the CNN’s (Cable News Network) coronavirus town hall about why the coronavirus is stopping global warming, however there is one problem about this, coronavirus will take a slight longer time to stop because it has been discovered that, the coronavirus dies at places with 35 degrees celsius or higher. Here are a few things that Greta Thunberg did to lower global warming: For about two years, Thunberg challenged her parents to lower the family's carbon footprint and overall impact on the environment by becoming vegan, upcycling, and giving up flying. After Greta showed how much she cares about our planet, children and young adults have taken action to show that our planet is more important than anything.

Some of her Honors and awards

TIME'S 25 most influential teens of 2018, December 2018, an annual list compiled by Time magazine of the most influential teenagers in the world that year.

Fryshuset scholarship, 2018, for Young Role Model of the Year.

Nobel Peace Prize nomination, 2019, by three deputies of the Norwegian parliament. Again in 2020 by two Swedish lawmakers.

Swedish Woman of the Year (Årets Svenska Kvinna), March 2019, awarded by the Swedish Women's Educational Association to "a Swedish woman who, through her accomplishments, has represented and brought attention to the Sweden of today in the greater world".

Rachel Carson Prize, March 2019, awarded to a woman who has distinguished herself in outstanding work for the environment in Norway or internationally.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg

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Global warming is the ongoing rise of the average temperature of the Earths climate system and has been demonstrated by direct temperature measurements and by measurements of various effects of the warming. https://www.google.at/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=16&ved=2ahUKEwiWsd3e5LzpAhWtQhUIHeTYDsgQmhMwD3oECBIQAg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGlobal_warming&usg=AOvVaw3ewUb_ZbAfYos-SwVP70Re

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How does global warming affect the world?

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How does global warming affect the world?

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Global warming is hitting the world badly because of fuel being released by cars, motorcycles, factories, buses, fossil fuels and greenhouse gases. Because of all those polluting substances the ice on earth melts and makes the water rise which could cause many floods around the world.

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Global warming started in the 19th century. Scientists around the world have discovered that every year this crisis became worse and worse. Millions of animals die around the world because of global warming.

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What is Paleoclimate

Paleoclimate is a field of weather study of climates which measurements are not directly taken as instrumental records only span a tiny part of Earths history.

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What are the connections to coronavirus

The Coronavirus has its disadvantages but have you ever thought of its advantages. As surprising as it sounds the coronavirus has been helping the global warming situation because all industries and factories are closing down meaning less fuel and pollution being released. Most cars are not driven less gas is being released and all factories are closed.

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How is global warming in the 21st Century?

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How is global warming in the 21st Century?

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Scientists say that in the 21st Century global warming got worse because more and more engines powered by fossil fuels are being produced.

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4 Ways the coronavirus is helping global warming

There are is less rumbling on surface.
There is less air pollution
City soundscapes are changing
The oceans are probably quieter too (no hurricanes or tsunamis)

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Which gases contribute the most to global warming and why?

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Which gases contribute the most to global warming and why?

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The worst greenhouse gas is called Carbon dioxide and is used world wide in many factories. It gets released out of factories every single day, but because of corona the factories close and don’t release Carbon dioxide anymore.

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Carbon dioxide and its causes

Global warming mostly happens when carbon dioxide occurs (CO2) and other air pollutants. Greenhouse gases collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off the earths surface.

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Global Warming 101 - Definition, Facts, Causes and Effects of ...

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Here are a few things you can do: use only bicycles, don’t go to far places because you’ll need to go on airplanes, for an8mal goods check their origin to see if they were made ethically and biologically and that the company making them is not worsening global warming. You can also invest in alternative energies, for example, solar panels to power your house can reduce the amount of heated water you use. This is important because, to create warmed up water you need carbon, which, once used, causes pollution. You can also change your diet or buying preferences, consume animal products in moderation and not every day, do not buy bottled water (if anything by a filtering machine for your tap), and research on vegetarian diets. Lastly, one of the main pollutants are actually our clothes, with 10% of the yearly carbon emissions being from the fashion industry, so if you can reduce your shopping, don’t follow fast fashion, and buy second-hand, it will help the earth. So here are some ways you can help.

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As it was studied by scientists global warming CAN be taken positively in some ways. Global warming helps the waves be decreased mortally from cold waves.

In some terms like short terms, farmers in some areas and regions may benefit from the earlier onset’s of spring and for longer warm seasons. As some of you may know the corona has been helping to reduce and been helping to stop global warming.
So as surprising as it sounds, global warming has its pros.

climate.gov is my source
Written in my own words though

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Many animals die.
Many plants that scientists haven’t discovered yet die.
There are many floods.
It rains less.
Many tsunamis and hurricanes.
Droughts occur.
It decreases human water supplies.
Many animal habitats get destroyed.

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Greta Thunberg was born in January 3rd 2003 and her parents are Malena Ernman and Svante Thunberg. Greta is now 17 years old and has always dreamed of being an activist and standing up to her planet/earth. Greta has recently been talking about how the virus has been helping stop global warming.

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You might just think you throw away trash and that’s it right. But no that’s not it. Every day millions of pounds of trash get spilled over beaches or other landscapes. The trash pollutes the ocean and the animals living in it. But that’s not all. The workers who bring the trash to the beaches don’t just leave it there. They burn it until it’s gone. You might think well good because then there will be no more trash. But that is exactly not good. Burning trash causes global warming. In the past few years this crisis became worse and worse and it actually still is. If all the people around the world would work together and try to not buy many plastic products would change the world. So whoever’s watching reading or hearing this you could also help. And with that help we could change the world.

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How could trash reduction help global warming?

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How could trash reduction help global warming?

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Scientists found out that climate change accelerated the need to find measures to reduce and manage the waste that people produce and leave on Earth’s Surface. Reduction and reuse of the waste we make would help global warming to get better.

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Lilly Platt is a Dutch climate activist that has achieved more than any adult. She is a strong climate striker that was rated as the top 100 influencers in tackling plastic. Before you ask yes plastic and trash has a effect on global warming. See Matteos page to find out more. Anyways Lilly Platt has also become a celebrity on Facebook (4,000 followers) and on twitter ( 7,700 followers). Only when Lilly Platt was seven years old she started ‘ Lilly’s plastic pickup’ with the aim of making our earth plastic free. According to Lilly you do not have to be an adult to help this world. She said “ You don’t have to be grown up to do something. Children are allowed to help the environment. If they don’t, they won’t have a future. They won’t have anything to go to school
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Ghislain Irakoze’s backstory on how he became a climat activist

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Ghislain Irakoze’s backstory on how he became a climat activist

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Long ago when Irakoze was making a school project he found out that in his home country(Rwanda) there was an over flooded dump of trash. He also found out that everyday over 45 Million tons of Elektro trash get thrown away. And that’s how he became a climat activist.

I got these facts from a National Geographic magazine.

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What does Ghislain Irakoze do these days?

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What does Ghislain Irakoze do these days?

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These days the twenty year old learns and at the same time owns Wastezon company. Wastezon is an app that helps global warming. 420 tons Electro trash with help from the app gets recycled instead of being dumped on beaches or other places. The company attracts many young Highschool students who become eco fighters. They learn principles of recycling and how to turn plastics into creative products.

Check out this link for more information:https://wastezon.com/about

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How polar bears are affected by global warming?

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How polar bears are affected by global warming?

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Everyone knows that the worst animals affected by global warming are polar bears right? Well, these days because this crisis is becoming worse and worse over 500 polar bears die every year. You are probably asking why do the polar bears die? Well, they die because the fossil fuels and greenhouse gases destroy there homes and melt all the ice on earth. So if everyone on Earth works together and tries to stop global warming we could save their lives and give them the life that they truly deserve.https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/02/polar-bears-starve-melting-sea-ice-global-warming-study-beaufort-sea-environment/

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Plastic affects the climate by getting burned and releasing a lot of greenhouse gases that pollute the air and create global warming. The more plastic we burn the hotter the planet becomes which is bad because if we continue doing this it could be that there will be no more human life on Earth and that all because of global warming.

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Why climate change is affecting what we need, to live

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Why climate change is affecting what we need, to live

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How is climate change affecting what we need, to live. Well, farming isn’t really working out with climate change, because some plants need heat and climate change is obviously changing the climate for plants which means that we will have no wheat for cows, so the food cycle could be altered or even worse, stopped. But is their a way to change the future? Yes there is and here are the instructions:

1. Don’t use warm water and here’s how: use showers only for 10 minutes or 20 minutes and no baths, wash your hands with normal water or better for the environment, cold water and finally be carful in how much water you use.

2. Don’t buy things that are useless such as posters, because if you do then industries won’t stop making them and why is this bad for the environment? Honestly, It’s terrible, because they might be powering the machine that makes them with fossil fuels.

3. Did you know that when food rots it creates a gas stronger than carbon dioxide! This greenhouse gas emission is called methane. Approximately 11% of all greenhouse gas emissions are methane. And where does the food go to rot? It does it in landfills. Some landfills might be close to a sea, nearby you or possibly close to the ocean. So now you can see what impact rotting food does. (I'm sure that you, reader, understood that from the start of this paragraph) Here’s what you can (but please do, because methane is stronger than carbon dioxide) do to help:

Plan what you need to buy, which also means don’t buy junk food and do not overbuy, even if it’s so tempting to do in this quarantine, please don’t.

Buy frozen food and again, it can’t be junk food, it may not be something made by a failing food company. Furthermore, if you buy frozen food it lasts longer.

And finally be creative with leftovers, or if you just like eating leftovers as they are then that’s okay, but cooking is a load of enjoyment.

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Greenhouse gases  get used and released which makes the temperature on Earth go higher and higher. All the gases let the sun past the earth’s atmosphere which also makes global warming worse. So the more greenhouse gases get released the more warmth gets captured on earths surface. Each year more greenhouse gases get captured in earths atmosphere. In the past few years the temperature rose at an alarming rate. Global warming has never been over today’s temperature in over hundreds and thousands of years. The higher the temperature rises the more glaciers melts which will cause many floods on low surfaces. This high temperature also causes a lot of hurricanes and tornados. Growing food for people is also going to become harder. This could also cause heart diseases and lung cancer. If we use solar panels and other reusable energy sources could help make this crisis better.

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For more than a century, burning fuels such as fossil fuels has generated most of the energy used to propel cars, engines, industries and power our business. Even these days oil, coal and gas provide about 80% of our energy needs.

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Crude oil, or petroleum (literally “rock oil” in Latin), is a liquid fossil fuel made up mostly of hydrocarbons (hydrogen and carbon compounds). Oil can be found in underground reservoirs; in the cracks, crevices, and pores of sedimentary rock; or in tar sands near the earth’s surface. It’s accessed by drilling, on land or at sea, or by strip mining in the case of tar sands oil and oil shale. Once extracted, oil is transported to refineries via supertanker, train, truck, or pipeline to be transformed into usable fuels such as gasoline, propane, kerosene, and jet fuel—as well as products such as plastics and paint.

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Petroleum products supply about 37% percent of U.S energy needs.

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1.) Oil is measured in barrels, which also makes 42 US gallons or 159 liters.
2.) The US has the 10th largest oil reserve in the world.
3.)Venezuela has the largest oil reserve in the world with 298.35 billion.
4.)Gasoline makes up 40% percent of crude oil.
5.)The US consumes more oil than any other country with 1.85 billion barrels per day.
6.)Petrochemicals are found in oil and they can be used to make technology such as an iPad computer or tablet.
7.)Oil is used to create medicines, recreational sports items, and cosmetics.
8.) Oil is also referred as “Texas Tea“ and “Black Gold“
9.) The process of oil drilling starts with a drill drilling in the earth allowing air to be pumped down words and once the oil is hit, it rushes up to the surface and can go for many meters above the ground.
10.)In the past 25 years , there have been more than two dozens of oil spills in the US ONLY.

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There human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions. Natural sources include decomposition, ocean release and respiration which are all thing that can cause climate change while Human Resources come from things like cement production as well as the burning of fossil fuels lime coal, oil and natural gas.

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The most polluting Top 10 facts you’ve ever seen

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The most polluting Top 10 facts you’ve ever seen

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1. Approximately 6 billion kilograms of garbage is dumped into the ocean every year and every day we dump 2.05 kg of trash.

2. For every 100 million tons of oil shipped only one million tons goes on roads, the rest pollutes the air.

3. Almost a third of San Francisco’s pollution comes from China.

4. It has been estimated that 75% of our dumped garbage is recyclable.

5. Americans every hour gather 2.5 million dumped plastic bottles and it takes every one of the plastic bottles 500 years to decompose!

6. Pollution kills more than 1 million seabirds and 100 million mammals every year.

7. A NASA space shuttle releases 28 tons of CO2.

8. Did you know that Antarctica is the cleanest continent on earth, thanks to its anti-pollution laws.

9. Electronic waste builds up 70% of our overall toxic waste.

10. Did you know that only 12.5% of electronic waste is recycled.

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https://footprint.wwf.org.uk/#/

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This here will talk about what’s happening to our carbon dioxide, since we use 1,331 tons of carbon dioxide every second.

Will we run out of carbon dioxide, before we figure out a more efficient  way to create electricity?

This question can only be answered if we all lower our carbon footprint.

Check how much carbon dioxide we have in the 2 celsius and 1.5 celsius scenario on this website: https://www.mcc-berlin.net/fileadmin/data/clock/carbon_clock.htm.

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During this period I have learned a lot and it will all be mentioned in this report. I am thankful for this journey and experience because it gave me more knowledge about my topic which I chose because it is a crisis that needs to be taken seriously and it can make a big change in the world in a good and bad way depending on what we do about it.

I have also learned to work in a team and handle social problems. If we got in a fight we always ended up resolving it and we all learned to treat each other equally, we had no boss or leader and we listened to each other's ideas carefully. We had a blast and I WILL always remember this period.

There are some things I would’ve done differently with my work and attitude because you can never be perfect. If I would have started from scratch I would have probably been more open and accepted the fact that things won't always go my way because I’m a PART of the group not THE group.

It did not only teach me things but it was also very fun to work with my friends and cooperate with them. We had some disagreements but it all worked out at the end and sometimes we had some time to joke around or have some fun.

We are also surprised by how much we achieved during this period and very proud of ourselves. We did questionnaires, presentations, videos, display boards, reports, art drawings and crafts. We are very proud of all that we made and how we made it but we sure are pretty nervous for the original day of the exhibition.

All in all, I had an amazing time in this experience and I will NEVER regret my topic and decisions.

THANK YOU MR.LEWIS FOR BEING OUR MENTOR!

Keyconcepts: Responsibility, Perspective

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Global warming report

This report will be about global warming and how bad it is hitting the world.

What is global warming?

Global warming is the ongoing rise of temperature on earth and is very dangerous and serious. In the past few years the temperature has risen very high and is still rising every day. This crisis should be taken into consideration.

How are polar bears affected by global warming?

Over 10% of the arctic has already melted because of global warming.

Every year over 500 polar bears die because of this crisis. Of course there are many other animals that are dying because of this crisis but polar bears are the most affected. Their territory gets destroyed because of the ice melting which makes them use double the energy to swim from place to place or catch seals.

THE MAIN CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING

The Main cause of global warming is garbage. There is more and more garbage around the world which is very bad for global warming. Every day over 500 tons of trash gets burned on beaches. As you might know plastic or other garbage stores carbon dioxide and when the trash gets burnt it releases all the carbon dioxide. Fossil fuels are also one of the main causes because they are being used in cars, buses, and airplanes. They get tanked with liquid fuel but they get released as gas which pollutes the air really badly.

Figure 1: GLOBAL WARMING POSTER

Ghislain Irakoze

Ghislain Irakoze is an eco fighter who was born on 13/January/2000. These days he is twenty years old and is working on an amazing app cradled Wastezon. Every day 420 tons of electro trash gets recycled instead of going on beaches and that all because of this app. This app also attracts many High School students who become eco fighters. The students also learn how to create trash into creative products.

Here is a quote from him:

“From trash to cash”

Figure 2: GHISLAIN IRAKOZE

How can we stop global warming?

How can we stop global warming? That is actually a very good question. We can make this crisis stop if we: do not use a lot of electricity, do not buy a lot of plastic products, do not use engines powered by fossil fuels, and do not buy packaged food.

Glossary

1. Eco fighter- a person who fights against something dangerous.

2. Carbon dioxide- a deadly gas that pollutes the air.

3. Territory- an animal home.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading this informative report about global warming. I hope you learned something new and understood every word.