https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o MP1 en-us 2016-11-05 13:03:28 UTC 2025-09-24 11:12:03 UTC hello@padlet.com 17finleyk https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/135543541 Paris finally passed an agreement to address climate change, and because of this, they are lighting up the Eiffel Tower and Arc to Triomphe green. Its believed that it will be hard to enforce this agreement, because not many big companies even know how much greenhouse gasses they emit. The agreement was create to try and stave off the bad effects of climate change and limit increases in temperature. 
Financially, not many companies can make changes to the climate change. After passing the agreement, the carbon exchange prices reduced to $6. Ben van Burden believes that oil consumption will not peak until the 2030s, and even new technology won't slow the surge.

]]> 2016-11-05 13:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/135543541 17finleyk https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/135612397 Theres a floating island of trash the size of Russia in the ocean, however, when the site was visited there was no visible trash, only a "deep rooted problem". When they lowered nets into the ocean they pulled up tangled masses of plastic. 
After Ruxton filmed "A Plastic Ocean", she found that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050. Ruxton and her crew visited numerous surrounding islands, and directed 10 dead chicks, finding their stomachs full of little bits of plastic. 
in Tuvalu, people began throwing plastic outside on the streets, and now they are drowning in plastic trying to burn it. However, during the plastics give off cancerous gas fumes. 
Kershaw insists that we should implement a closed loop system to cut the rate of plastic production.Some also believe that stricter laws on recycling should be enforced. ]]> 2016-11-06 16:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/135612397 17finleyk https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/135620756 On October 30, in central Italy, there was an earthquake which ranked 6.6 on the Richter Scale. This was the most severe earthquake in 36 years followed by about 560 recorded aftershocks. Although they are considered aftershocks they have the potential to be was severe as the earthquake itself. 
In Italy, earthquakes that produce lots of tremors are typically referred to as swarms. 
The recent quake can reportedly be linked to the quake back in August, which moved stress into the faults in the south causing the big quakes that are occurring now. ]]> 2016-11-06 18:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/135620756 17finleyk https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/135622267 A recent discovery was made, stating that Mount St. Helens is not filled with hot magma. However, it is filled with cold lurking rock. Geophysicist Hansen set off 23 explosions around the volcano, hoping to find the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate melting as it sunk into the hot mantle. Except, he did not discover this source of heat under Mount St. Helens. 
What he did come across was a rock called serpentinite, which is too cold to be a volcanoes source of heat. This discovery helped to further examine what the local crust looks like. ]]> 2016-11-06 18:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/135622267 17finleyk https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/135623334 Planes flew overhead of glaciers in Antartica, and captured photographs of the ice caps melting. With all of the warm water melting the ice sheets, it will raise the sea level and send chunks of ice out to sea. 
Tama flew over Antartica, and found the sights beautiful and unworldly. He then began to say how little changes in temperature can greatly effect the landscape. 

]]> 2016-11-06 18:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/135623334 17finleyk https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/136256498 Green vegetation is said to have offset human carbon emission between 2002 and 2014. The start of the 21st century has caused a spike in the number of trees and plants on Earth, and the amount of carbon dioxide taken up by trees increased as well.
The temperature has also gone up, however, not as significantly as years prior which has to do with the respiration of the plants. With the increasing temperatures, the amount of droughts were thought to have increased, except, they have remained steady. 
Carbon sinks help to regulate the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, but for global warming to stop, carbon emission would need to drop close to zero. If carbon sinks are managed the correct way, they could possibly help countries cut their emissions and limit climate change. ]]> 2016-11-08 22:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/17finleyk/yisxge6lwe5o/wish/136256498