Task 5: Carbon footprint

A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). I have measured my carbon footprint in two websites. I am going to report them here.

In the first website, there was a four category questions to get some information about my life. It asked about the food am eating, the way I use for travelling and the kind of households am using plus the way of using them. My score was 2.56 (WWF). The second website asked about the consumptions for UAE households. It shows and measures our footprint in some categories like cooling, drying, etc. The result was 1.4(Heroes of the UAE).

My average from the two websites is 1.98. I compared it with my mates Basel and Khalil. My average and the average of khalil are almost equal with little more for khalil. While basel is ahead of us by nearly 0.5. Our results were ay below our country’s average which is 10.33.

If we want to save our little home, the earth, we should work on reducing our carbon footprint as much as we can. We can do that by reducing our use of energy. We can dry our clothes by hanging them under our lovely sun instead of the electrical dryers. We can travel by buses or trains in the future hopefully instead of cars.



Bibliography
"Carbon footprint calculator." Wwf. .
Heroes of the UAE. .

An Inconvenient truth

Millions of people have watch the movie "An Inconvenient truth" by Al Gore. Many of them have given their reviews on it and they are split in two. Positive reviews which is the most and negative reviews.

Many people think the movie was horrible. Some of them think that it was a 96 minutes commercial supporting Al Gore in the Elections (Hall). While some others see that he is trying to make himself the savior for the earth(Carr).




On the other hand there are people who ignored the film's political subtext and simply concentrate on the message (butler). Saying that it's real, we're responsible for it and we can do something about it without ruining the economy. But thinks that we are running out of time.



In my opinion, I agree that we should focus on what Al Gore is trying to deliver. He may have done all that for a reason. But we should work from now to save the next generations.



Bibliography

Butler, Robert. "Reviews of An inconvenient truth." Rotten tomatoes. 16 June 2006. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/?page=3&critic=columns&sortby=date&name_order=asc&view=#contentReviews

Carr, Kevin. "Reviews of An inconvenient truth." Rotten tomatoes. 9 June 2006. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/?page=4&critic=columns&sortby=date&name_order=asc&view=#contentReviews.



Hall, Phil. "Reviews of An inconvenient truth." Rotten tomatoes. 02 June 2006. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/?page=8&critic=columns&sortby=date&name_order=asc&view=#contentReviews

An Inconvenient truth

Al Gore has talked about the global warming in the movie"An inconvenient truth". He talked about the causes and why it is a serious issue.

CO2, which is released by us, humans, increases as our needs increases, is the main reason. However, the increasing of CO2 means the temperature will increase as well. Therefore, The results of that has started slowly that people in some areas of the world don't feel it. That's why they are not aware of it. However, hot temperature will cause many crisis. Ice in the Arctic ocean will melt rising the sea level all over the world. Because of that alot of people will be affected. Specially people who are living in small islands or on the coasts. That will affect polar animals and fishes as well.

we should start from now to think about the future. Our future and the future of our kids. We should also think about keeping the earth green and beautiful.