Global Warming !! Earth in danger

About The Blog

I have done This Blog as part of my project in Higher College Of Technology in Abu Dhabi in the UAE and the idea of writing this information in a blog instead of papers or word document is to make it accessible for others to read and comment. This blog is about global warming, so I tried to include information as much as possible; therefore I added some videos about global warming and divided the blog into ten sections:

1-Project purpose

2-The an inconvenient truth review

3-Global Warming Definition

4-Global Warming Causes

5-Global Warming Effects

6-Practicable Solutions

7-Global Warming Case

8-Global warming on UAE news →

9-What Can The UAE Do?

10-My Opinion

Note: these information may not be all correct but I really worked hard to find and understand them to have my own opinion to shear it with you. I hope you find it amusing and useful

The project purpose

I want to write about global warming to show how severe this problem is, and look at how , why and when this happened and the causes and affects of it on animals, diseases,the next generations, prices, location of the cities, small islands and how will it affect the UAE if it continues at this rate I will also link some of the articles from Gulf News and Khaleej Times newspapers from the UAE and some blogs that look at this problem and comment on them. In addition I will include some personal activities that may help solve the problem as well as show, the opposite ideas rather than just telling the story from one side and show whether their theories are true or not. I will give evidence for my ideas and give solutions to this problem and all this will be organize in order to be easy and attractive to readers in the UAE and other nations.

An Inconvenient Truth Review

Al Gore takes you on board travelling around the world giving lectures to lots of universities, environmental groups, discussing Global Warming with businessmen and organizations to show "The Inconvenient Truth". This documentary also looks at personal and important points from Gore's life WERE he was Vice-President of US, the car accident that put the life of his son near death, his family's history as tobacco farmers, and the death of his sister from lung cancer that made his father stop producing tobacco.

This documentary is a call to stop global warming and Al Gore is certain that we can do things to solve this problem as an important challenge that is facing the next generation. Automobiles and coal-burning Power plants are the two main sources of carbon dioxide (CO2). As second is cutting and burning trees in the forests. At the end of the documentary when giving the credits there is also a list of some possible solutions that you can do as a group or individual.

Global Warming Definition

Global warming is the continuing increase in global temperatures caused by both natural causes, such as warming during an interglacial period, and from the increased release of human-made greenhouse gases into the air which includes carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and halocarbons (the replacements for CFCs). Those trap the sun's heat in the Earth's atmosphere. Resulting an increase in the volume of water which contributes to sea-level rise, these gases are caused, and released into the air, from burning gas, oil, coal, wood and other resources to create energy and also from industrial pollutants which then block heat in the earth's atmosphere and can’t escape. A warmer Earth may lead to changes in rainfall status, a rise in sea level, and a huge influence on plants, animals, and humans. Extreme and quick changes in climate may take place, rather than just a slow warming in the coming years if we don’t start solving the problem together.

Global Warming Causes

Global warming happens because of certain gases, known as greenhouse gases (GHG) that are increasing in the atmosphere because of human and industrial activity. The main GHG is carbon dioxide which is produced because of the use of coal, petroleum and gas as well as by cutting and burning the forests. Nitrous oxide is produced by vehicle and industrial emissions while methane emissions are caused by both industrial and agricultural activities. Chlorofluorocarbons CFCs are highly damaging to the ozone layer as well as being a GHG that affects the globe. These are polluting gases that are increasing in the atmosphere and trapping more heat from the sun. At the same time oceans and vegetation absorb huge amounts of CO2, but their ability to act as 'sinks' is now exceeded by emissions. This means that every year amount of GHGs that stay in the atmosphere increases which makes the heat accelerate. The removal of trees reduces the absorption of carbons by the trees, is responsible for 20% of the increase of carbon emissions. Another factor that enters the circle is water (H2O) that evaporates because of the heat so it acts as GHGs and just warms the weather not blocking the sun's infrared from getting out of the atmosphere therefore more water evaporates which increases the temperature

Global Warming Effects

Weather

Scientists have discovered that hurricanes are more severe under warmer weather and high-CO2 conditions than under normal day conditions which mean global warming increases the number of hurricanes. Worldwide, the amount of hurricanes reaching categories 4-5 with wind speeds above 56 m/s – has risen from 20% in the 1970s to 35% in the 1990s

Evaporation

Evaporation will increase because of warmer oceans. This will cause heavier rainfall

Rise in sea level

With the increase in global temperature, the water in the oceans will expand in volume and this is happening to the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets. You can say that an increase of 1.5 to 4.5 °C is expected to lead to an increase of 15 to 95 cm

Glacier retreat

Glacier retreat has become increasingly rapid and comprised so much that it has threatened the existence of many of the animals and people who live there. This process has increased and become clear since 1995.

Agriculture

Some people think that global warming is good for agriculture because the weather will be warmer therefore a longer growing season will produce more fruit and that plants breath CO2 as we breath oxygen but others say that when it becomes warmer this will increase the evaporation of water which increase the amount of rain that will evaporate fast as well as the water in the soil which will make the plants weak so that any storm that will come will take it off the soil and makes the land unqualified for plants or any creature to lives in.

Fish stocks

The growth of fish near the water surface will increase because of rise in water temperatures, but it will decrease the fish at the bottom because of the fall of water temperatures there. Also the fish will have to move to other places so that they can live, which will make it harder for people to catch fish and economics will drop unless global warming pollution is reduced

Insurance

The insurance industry is very directly affected by the risks because of the increase in the number of natural disasters that has trebled since the 1960s.

Transport

Roads, airport runways, railway lines and pipelines, may need an increase in repairing and rebuilding as they become more affected by the increase changes in the temperature.

Migration

The people who live at or near the sea level will with time lose their homes so they will need to migrate to another country and this will raise the population and cause lots of problems

Health

The high temperatures will increase the number of people who die. For example; people with heart problems are at risk because their body system must work harder to keep the body cool during hot weather, heat exhaustion and breath problems will increase. Higher air temperature also increases the concentration of ozone at ground level which is a harmful pollutant. It damages lung and causes problems for people with asthma.

Disease

Global warming is expected to extend the infectious disease such as dengue fever and malaria