Thursday, May 21, 2009

Problem and Solution of Global Warming

The global warming is a true issue; the researche’s and scientists all of them agree that global warming is a real problem in our life and this problem is becoming much more dangerous by the. Fibbs, Brandon, a favorable review of An Inconvenient Truth. Says it is the best movie to understand global warming with very a modern way .The global warming is a real problem these days; many countries in the world try to play down this issue but in fact it’s much harder than we thought. The global warming is basically the earth becoming hotter but, more scientifically, it is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its projected continuation. The main problem is the emissions from cars, buildings and factories. Also the growing population is one of the main reasons; people want to travel, buy clothes, work and so the amount of emissions becomes bigger day by day. Another huge problem is the changes in temperature that may destroy the earth in future because that will cause floods and diseases; also hot weather may kill a lot of plants. “It would take 100 years for the ice to melt, but recent studies say it could happen in 10-15 years”; Mellgren, Doug from “Riches Await As Earth's Icy North Melts" article says: I think this is not right; the information might be wrong because there is a big difference between 100 to 10 or 15 years. If 100 years all this generation will die and the 10 years is too short a period so I think this information is not accurate.Despite that, there are solutions of this case but in fact it is too hard to make them work. The economic growth is the biggest problem in these times and it is linked to the growing world population. So with the development of economic growth the level of emissions will increase and as I said it is harder than we thought to find a solution because the companies want profits and people have to use transportation to move so that is why the solutions are hard to find.


Bibliography:

- An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount Classics, 2006.
- Mellgren, Doug. "Riches Await As Earth's Icy North Melts."
- Fibbs, Brandon. "Favorable review about An Inconvenient Truth."

Thursday, May 7, 2009


Cool City

We watched a video which is about Cool City project. A lot of environmental problems appeared such as climate change and many other problems; those problems came because of the economic development, traffic and population growth. If we want to solve this issue we need a new earth; we have to reduce 50% of carbon dioxide emissions to live in a single earth. In Japan over the past 30 years GDP has gone up 100% and energy efficiency has increased 37% while oil consumption has decreased 8%. Buildings and transport produce about 90% of carbon dioxide into the air. Cool City is a huge project which is about a green environment with high technology buildings and transport and the main benefit is a very small amount of carbon dioxide emissions. The SDCJ (Sustainable Urban Development Consortium for Japan) are a group of Japanese companies. The three main types of transportation are hybrid cars, trains and water taxis. Residential, Commercial and Business are the three zones in the city. The climate of the Gulf region is very hot so they will build a special wall around the city to reduce the heat. The overall percentage of reduction of CO2 is 60%.

In my point of view, the project of course is a great idea but the important question is when the project will finish? After 50 years?, There will be people to live in this city without any problems.