Task(7) Problems and solutions of the global warming

Earth can be affected by many natural factors that affect our planet, and the resources contained. I will concentrate on the subject of global warming because it is now the most severe issue that the whole world is facing. This essay will examine some causes and I will suggest some solutions. Finally, I will conclude with my opinion regarding my view of the future.

Let’s first look at the causes. One notable cause is with respect to the greenhouse gases which results from carbon emissions. To clarify, co2 emissions are emitted from the discharge of factories, cars and oil field (Nagel). Another point to take into consideration concerns deforestation. To illustrate, cutting down trees which helps us to provide fresh air and to prevent pollutions by sucking co2 and producing oxygen. One more point worthy of mentioning is with regard to human activities. For instance, on an individual level people use far too much electricity at home. This can be easily seen if we consider individual carbon foot prints.

On the other hand, many solutions can be taken into consideration in order to cut out and fight global warming. First of all, reducing the carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, this can be achieved through some steps. For instance, reducing the number of used cars by attempting public transportation. Another solution is to less use electricity and to recycle more products if possible. In addition, “make conserving energy a part of your daily routine in order to reduce burning fossil fuels within daily human activities” (Global Warming Basics). Yet a final solution is to extend the cultivated areas. To illustrate, plant more trees mean create healthy environment. Furthermore, Trees absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, which is not a greenhouse gas.

To sum up, global warming is a fatal issue that should taken into consideration and be solute as soon as possible. In my opinion, people should be educated on how to fight global warming. People should change their altitude towards their activities and countries should implement rules to reduce the gas emission from the factories.

Task(6)

Modern city are developing in a diversity of ways as we can see here with respect to the UAE’s cities’. Basically, it’s a unique project that might help a lot to create friendly cities but, it also has positive and negative growth. This essay regards the expected role that modern cities make with respect to climate changes, it also asserts how modern cities minimize their energy consumption and as a result to reduce their carbon emission .finally, it states my opinion regarding the practicality of environmentally friendly cities.
At first, let’s have a look at how modern cities contribute to global warming one important point to consider is with respect buildings. For instance, most buildings in the UAE don’t have spaces between each other so; they don’t provide any shade in addition to poor materials used in construction (Younes 2). Another important point to take into account is with regard transportation. To illustrate, the raises in population led to increase the numbers of cars used. This raises the energy consumption and also emits more carbon dioxide into the air.

Having looked at some contribution, let’s now turn our attention to suggested solutions in to how they can reduce energy used and the carbon emissions. One most important solution is to reduce the carbon dioxide being emitted into the air by transportation. For instance, they will use new technology of public transportation and they will encourage people to use them. Furthermore; they will introduce new ways of transferring people from zone to anther zones. Consequently the quantity of gases discharged into the air will be less. Cool city will use many types of transportation Monorail, Hybridcar, Light rail transit and solar ship for water transportation (Cool cities).
Another point to take into consideration is regarding the climate control. For example, Mr. Hope mentioned that “Abu Dhabi development company Sorouh and Arup ” plan in to their project to circulate seawater underground to cool the pavement , benches and crannies on the exterior of buildings (Hope 2). On the other issue, Mr. Younes stated that using creative architecture in city of 50,000 will cut the energy usage by 50-70 % (Younes 3). additionally, they will create abundance of trees and water to avoid the heat island effects, filtered light rooftops that can reduce the impact of sun’s heat, recycle cool air semi outdoor boulevards and utilizes natural energy such as wind energy (Cool cities).

To sum up, in my personal point of view cool cities is the best idea to reduce carbon emission. However, there are many challenges face the entire project. “Masdar” is making greater plan to create modern cities where people can live in an area that have less-polluted. In my opinion, the above solutions are useful to reduce carbon emission but, I think it is very difficult because the UAE is a producer country especially oil and gas.

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Carbon Footprint Task 5

There are various ways to measure our impact on the earth from an environmental standpoint. One of these ways is by way of our carbon footprint. In the following report, I will define what a carbon footprint is, show how a carbon footprint measured, and show how I rank in comparison to others, my country and the worlds as whole and finally I’ll make some suggestions as to how we can reduce our carbon footprints.
Let’s now look at how best to define what is carbon. A carbon footprint is the measurement of our effect on the enviroment in terms of how we influence global warming. In other word “carbon footprint is the sum of all emission of CO2 (carbon dioxide), which were induced by your activities in a given time frame. It relates to the total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities which is usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (Time for change 1).
Carbon footprints can be calculated in one of two ways: using a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method (more accurate and specific), or it can be restricted to the immediately attributable emissions from energy use of fossil fuels. The first way is to calculate the quantity of emission discharged from production. The second way is by product life cycle. The carbon footprint are different from person to another, because I have my life and every person has own regular life and convinced factor that could affect the footprint in our plant. Consequently it is very difficult to calculate and find an accurate account of the world carbon footprint depends to each person’s energy used in their, life transportation and houses. Although ,it’s difficult to get an accurate calculation still it can help to raise to know how much the life style effects our plant ,therefore they can think carefully at least to reduce from all these effects.
Turn our attention to how my carbon footprint ranking compares vis-à-vis my classmates. We visited two famous site on the website http://www.myfootprint.org/ and http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ and we answered all the questions regarding our food, travel, home and stuff in different categories. I registered the lowest a total of 1.475. My classmate zubair recorded a reading of 2.585 and that makes his score the highest. My classmate Sultan coming on the second highest with a reading of 2.235. Coming on the third place Mohammed Khalfan with reading of 2.205. Finally, came Saleh with a reading of 1.7. TheUAE has poor international reputation regarding energy use. It was published in the National Newspaper that” Mohammad al Jawdar, the director of strategy management at the EAD, said Abu Dhabi was unable to provide accurate statistics on environmental matters at present and this was one of the reasons for the country’s poor international reputation”(Todorova 1).
There are some recommendations to reduce your carbon foot print. First point to consider is to use less heat and air conditioning. For example, turn down the heat while you are sleeping at night a way during the day, and keep temperature moderate at all times. Another point is when you driving make sure your car is running efficiently. To clarify, keeping your tires properly inflated can improve your gas mileage by more than 3%. Finally, in the website http://search.about.com stated that use the “off” switch is very important to save electricity and reduce carbon footprint by turning off lights when you leave room and remember turn off your Television, video, and any things that related (west 1).
In brief, this report helped me to primarily become more aware of my impact on the environment and take into consideration ways that I can also benefit the environment by becoming a responsible.