Godoy final project

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by Andrea Pacheco Diaz1 view·Updated Dec 16, 2022
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  1. the topic I chose for my final project is the global climate change.
  2. What interests me about this topic is that climate change has been around for a long
  3. time and people are barely starting to see the harm it is causing the earth.
  4. I also chose this topic because it is a problem and has become really serious,
  5. not just affects me but the entire planet, including the human race, organisms,
  6. ecosystems, agriculture
  7. And the weather.
  8. I also believe that if we as a whole don't try to change to make things better,
  9. it can worsen and change the way we see life today.
  10. And my change has been causing damage since around the 1980s and it's
  11. causing sea levels to rise temperatures to increase ice glaciers to melt.
  12. The top five countries affected by climate change.
  13. The most are Japan, the Philippines,
  14. Germany Madagascar in India climate change has
  15. three major influences number one the sun,
  16. which without it it will be dark and freezing,
  17. leading the earth to be about 59°F, colder
  18. to the atmosphere,
  19. which serves as a protective layer from gasses
  20. and three oceans which store and transfer moisture.
  21. This article talks about how sea levels rise and
  22. so do groundwater tables and salt water is more
  23. corrosive than freshwater.
  24. Using existing predictions for sea level rise and water
  25. to tables levels based on wells and mobiles,
  26. they predicted how long it would take
  27. for salt water to reach building's foundation.
  28. This figure from the study shows the number of buildings located in the shore line
  29. to 50 kilometers inland and building types in mobile county Alabama
  30. since about 1976 every year has been
  31. warmer than average in the western United States
  32. just have become more frequent and severe harming agriculture,
  33. worsening soil erosion,
  34. reducing water supplies and triggering wildfires.
  35. In parts of the eastern United States, heavy rains have increased,
  36. leading to floods that have killed dozens of people,
  37. left thousands of homeless and inflicted billions of dollars
  38. in damage.
  39. In its fifth assessment report, the I. P. C. C.
  40. Predicted that the mean sea level worldwide
  41. will rise 26 to 82 centimeters higher by the
  42. year 21,000 depending on our level of emissions.
  43. However,
  44. research since then is finding that ice in Antarctica
  45. and especially Greenland is melting faster and faster,
  46. which could lead to cease to rise more quickly perhaps one or two m again.
  47. The year 21,000
  48. shown in the map are areas of the Miami region that would
  49. be flooded by rises and sea level of 1 to 6 ft
  50. from now on society needs to focus on how to best
  51. respond to the challenge posed by the disturbance of our climate.
  52. Although stopping climate change will take a lot of work,
  53. we can do things that would reduce our carbon footprint.
  54. One thing we can do to do
  55. our
  56. carbon footprint is to change the way we get around
  57. purchase energy saving products and even what we eat.
  58. Our transportation accounts for more than 35% of the U. S.
  59. Carbon emissions largely because we rely on motor vehicles that run on gasoline
  60. and if you drive less it will greatly cut
  61. down on your carbon footprint with energy saving products.
  62. We can reduce energy from cooking to heating
  63. to lighting and two surfacing the energy.
  64. Much of what we do every day depends on electricity,
  65. which accounts for about 35% of us emissions.
  66. One of the most effective ways to lower your carbon footprint is through your diet,
  67. eating animal products such as meat,
  68. eggs and milk is far more energy intensive pound
  69. for pound
  70. beef leads eight times more emissions than chicken.
  71. Scientists estimate that animal agriculture's account for at
  72. least 4.5 of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
  73. Suppose that you would
  74. like to make your own lifestyle carbon neutral.
  75. You plan to begin by reducing their emissions, you are responsible for by 25%.
  76. What three actions would you take
  77. to achieve your goal? My first action would be to invest in solar panels.
  78. Solar power can help reduce your carbon emissions mainly
  79. by being a clean renewable source of energy.
  80. Solar Powell is not dependent on burning fossil fuels or other projects. Instead,
  81. it uses electrons captured by the sun's energy.
  82. I would also use electricity more efficiently as it will reduce in both the amount of
  83. fuel needed to generate electricity in the amount
  84. of greenhouse gasses and other air pollution.
  85. My last action would be to recycle because recycling has
  86. a significant amount of impacts as it conserves energy,
  87. air and water pollution, greenhouse gasses, and it conserves natural resources.