Practicable Solutions

Many People think they can’t do anything because if they do they will lose too much. Well this is not true. You can reduce the GHGs without sacrificing things that really count. I will discuss what you can do with your fridge to solve the increase in GHGs. One of the actions is increasing the performance of your fridge by placing it in a cool environment. This will save up to 150 kg CO2 per year. Further action is replacing your old fridge because the old fridges are much less energy-efficient than today's Energy Star models, this can save you over 227 Kg CO2 per year. Or buy one with automatic defrost cycles you will save about 210 kg CO2 per year. Also letting hot food cool down to room temperature before putting it in the fridge this will save about 6 kg CO2 per year. Another action is cleaning your refrigerator's coils, defrost regularly and keep the top clear of clutter, you can save over 318 Kg CO2 per year.

Glowbal Warming Scenario

Global Warming Case

I will mention an example on how global warming is affected by GHGs (Green house gases) and the result of it if it continues. It starts by the use of things that cause the increase in GHGs like electricity for air conditioners, fridges and transportation. This raises the temperature therefore will cause the water to evaporate. When this happens the water vapor raises the temperature more which causes the soil that is nurturing the plants to dry. Yes, the rainfall will increase but because of the heat it will evaporate just before the plants take a sip of the water and the soil isn’t just dry, but also hot. This burns and kills the weaker plants and because of all of this the roots of the plants become unattached to the soil therefore any wind will easily take it off finally causing the deserts to march through lands and leave nothing worth living.

What Can The UAE Do?

As Government:

It has to develop the transportation, like pay for new busses that don’t give lots of GHGs and put transportation for employees to go to work and find a new source of energy like solar energy so that we can reduce the dependence on fossil fuels and prevent using CFCs gases in the devices and use instead another cold gas that doesn’t affect the ozone. They can gather lots of scientists to work on this problem and find new methods to accelerate the planting in deserts.


As Individual UAE People

You can replace your normal bulb with a 19-watt.If your fridge is kind of old it will leak carbon and let’s face it, it won’t work well and you will lose you money because of fixing it lots of times and the food will not be safe, so just buy a new one that is much less energy-efficient. TVs, DVD players, computers and other entertainment are actually on, even when you press the off button because of clocks and standby mode, so just turn it off when not in use. If your house is old, but if you are having a new house you better put in your mind how to make it nice for you and for the environment. I’ll give an example. Buy air conditioners that use cold gases different than CFCs, to prevent the affect on ozone even if you have to pay extra. If you don’t want to do this then you can design your house to use less energy but with the best affect. You can do this by spreading air conditioners in the house but in lesser numbers, like instead of buying 16 you buy 8 and you have the same result this way you save money and the environment and when you buy them “the ones with CFCs I mean”. Don’t leave them unused because if you do leave them let’s say for two weeks the Chlorofluorocarbons CFCs, which are by the way volatile gases will start to exert pressure on the pipes that contains them because they are not oriented to else where any more, so they start to leak from breaches in the pipes which cause damage to the ozone layer and that itself rise the heat on the unprotected earth affected by the sun rays and this goes for all the devices that contains CFCs.

My Opinion

The global warming is real and it is happening right now and it is increasing and people are part of the problem. But we can’t do much about it because time has almost run out and the effect of global warming isn't exaggerated. In the year 2000 scientists showed statistics indicated that in the last 100 years the sea level rose 6-8 inches. They are saying that the same amount of rise will happen, but this time within 30 years, and will still accelerate. The ice should finish or the global warming should and in my opinion the ice will move to somewhere else. The only problem is for the creatures living there, so we have to take care of them until their new home is ready so that they don’t end up extinct and as for the agriculture and the plants it will move too because the weather will change I myself may call it “world immigration” and if this keep continuing even the Middle East will have a good green lands but I would like you all to keep on reducing the GHGs for beautiful nature and the environment and in case I was wrong.