Blog 2-Global Issues

Topic: Global Warming

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"Global warming is real and it's affecting earth and everything in it, that includes each and everyone of us! Please help to raise awareness. Get people to understand what global warming is, what's causing it and to learn what little things everyone can do easily on a daily basis to help stop global warming."--Jason Chen

"Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's surface. This rising in temperature obviously give us hotter weather, strange weather pattern, melts the ice at north pole that decreases the living habitat for animals such as polar bear, increases the sea level and causes many island and shorelines to decrease in size, and also affects the growing of crops for consumption. There are many causes to this temperature rise, and big part of it is resulted from human activities. Things such as electricity that we use require burning of the fossil fuel and produces heat and CO2. Too much of this that earth can not "handle" result in this temperature increase. So some simple things we can do is to decrease in electricity usage. You can use energy-saving light bulbs, turn off lights when they are not needed, use a fan instead of air conditioner in warm weather,... etc. Cars are also another big pollutant so cut down on driving, car pool, take public transportation, ride bicycle or simply just walking whenever possible would help. Everything we use in our lives require resources to create and produce heat and CO2, so make sure they are not wasted, try to reuse or recycle. This is just some basics about global warming, to read more, check out the links in the "Posted Items" section or discuss them in the discussion board! If you have any good links, feel free to post them up for others to read.

Let's all be responsible earthlings and help preserve this great planet we live on for ourselves and our children! Take action now!


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Questions & Answers:

1)- The Internet is a great resource for information of all kinds, and it can help us to great extent to find out information about Global Warming. Since Global Warming is a worlwide issue, many people all over the world are involved in trying to solve it. That's why there are so many internet websites, blogs, articles, and feeds for Global Warming. And thanks to these Internet resources we are able to make changes, and we are able to make a difference in our world. We can set up blogs and feeds that help alert people that our world is at risk and may be in danger. Social Networking sites like Facebook, twitter, and MySpace allow people to hold discussions with people worldwide.It also lets us discuss with people over what's wrong and right about how to help, and in what ways can we help. We can also hold special events such as fundraisers, fundraiser dinners, and festivals that donate all money towards Global Warming Research, or other topics. We can post these events over the internet, send invitations by e-mail, and many more other internet resources.

2)- Many new internet resources such as the many Web 2.0 tools that are releasing newly by the day can help us support our online publications and posts. Such tools are widgets, and they are commonly found throughout the internet. Widgets can help us support many online publications, and are really nifty. Another good tool is the "embed code", which helps us emebed many things such as tools, videos, and pictures. The "embed code" enables us to support much of our online publications and posts. And that's how these internet resources can help us out in online publications, and posts.

3)- We already know that the Internet is an amazing resource, and we all can use to the benefit for all of mankind. We can use the internet access to help each other across the internet. We can all help the community by holding special events as mentioned above. We can also hold discussions and group events that could help the community, and that could benefit the community in some way, for example a community park cleanup. So you can hold the event over the internet, and invite the many members of your community to come and help out.