2008/08/22
Global Warming
By Max Sun
Age 9
Global Warming is a very bad thing for us and the world now. Temperatures are rising higher and higher. Now, scientists are discovering ways to stop global warming.
We have to do some things to stop global warming too. Just like riding bicycles to work is an example. Sitting on a bus or driving a car with many people is an example too. Always turn off the lights if you don’t need them. Set the temperatures high if you want to turn on an air conditioner. Recycle cans and bottles would be a good way too. On April 22nd, there will be an Earth Hour. More than 100 countries joined it. After turning off the lights for one hour, the carbon dioxide left can plant 170,000 trees!
Imagine if the scientists didn’t discover global warming, what will happen to our lives now? A few years later, many plants and animals will become extinct. That time, we don’t feed enough food for the people. And, if the polar ice cap melts, the sea level will rise 5000 feet! That can drown the Empire State Building, and Taipei 101! So, if you don’t want to be drowned, you must go to Mount Everest. Also remember, the hurricanes, the blizzards and the tornados will become stronger if the temperatures rise.
Our world’s population is a problem too. In the 1910s, the world population was only 100,000,000. Now, the world‘s population is 6,000,000,000! Scientists said if it keeps going up, at the 22nd century, the world’s population will be over 10,000,000,000! That time, each person will eat less and less food!
Scientists first said at 2060, the polar ice cap will all melt. Then scientists said that 2012, the polar ice cap will all melt. But it keeps getting worse! Scientists said at September 2008, the polar ice cap will all melt!
So, if you want to stop the temperature from rising, just reduce the carbon dioxide. Come on, people, let’s save the earth!
Interesting Facts:
1. From 2063, if you put a large ice cube in the ocean, you will save the earth! (Sure, you need to put larger and larger ice cubes because it melts faster and faster!)
2. If you put an A+ battery in soil, 1 acre of soil will be unusable.
3. The ten hottest years all occurred in the in the last 13 years.
4. If the carbon dioxide increases, the temperatures will get higher!
Time Line
650,000 years ago
7 ice ages happened to now.
1000 A.D.
CO2 increases by now.
1910
Population over 100,000,000.
1994-2007
The ten hottest years recorded in the last 13 years.
2008
Now
2012
1. Polar Ice cap has been all melted.
2. First estimated the end of the world.
2030
Kaohsiung flooded
2060
Second estimated the end of the world.
2100
Population over 10,000,000,000.
2144
Mathematicians estimated the end of the world.
27th Century
Each person only gets 30 cubic
Centimeters of land.
