"An Inconvenient Truth"

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore is from America. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976 and served four terms and was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States. In addition he served under President Bill Clinton between 1993 and 2001. He was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He is interesting about man-made climate change.

However, Al Gore has a film and book about Global Warming which are called, An Inconvenient Truth. The film is talking about many important things. For example, the film showed the people are cutting trees around the world and build new buildings, and also built a lot of industry and transfer the oil under the sea which is polluted the environment. These things are raising the temperature on the plant to cause melting the glaciers around the world. This may cause some islands to sink in the future.

I saw from the graphs that when the CO2 increases the temperature is increased direct. Al Gore explained the polar ice cap melting and how it was effecting on the polar bears. He said when the temperature rises in the ocean the ice becomes weak and can not carry. They will not find place to rest and that will be deadly for the bears. Al Gore is warning that are a new disaster is coming and we will face huge impacts.

The film was really great and effecting; because he showed the effects of the climate change and showed us the evidence by photographs. So, we have to think and how to find solutions for this problem.

OPINION ACTIVITY ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

Really the documentary film was interesting which is called "An Inconvenient Truth", because it analyzed serious problems in the world. The lecturer of this film is Mr. Al Gore. He used humorist techniques to keep the film interesting. He mentioned several problems and the effect of global worming.

Mr. Al Gore spoke about disadvantages of global warming so, a lot of people agree with him. In addition, the scientists agree that global warming is making problems in the world. He spoke about global warming effect while he did not speak about some solutions. Political will can be help to solve these problems. However, I agreed and disagreed with Mr. Al Gore on what he was said. The pictures and music were effective for this subject. By the way, the film cartons were good point to add in the film.

I learned many points of information and details about global warming. For example, I learned the melt of glaciers can be effected on see level. Finally I would like to say I hope each country tries to face these problems.

Global Worming and the UAE

There are some projects in the UAE which they try to reduce and clean the air from the pollution. This project in progress in Abu Dhabi. there are four stages for this project, the first one talking about the vehicles, improper waste disposal, chemical plants and the other three they talking about the industrial.

This link show some information about the project:
http://www.nilu.no/index.cfm?ac=news&text_id=11198&folder_id=4316&view=text&lan_id=3

Some Picture About Global Warming

Lebanon Report

Lebanon is a nice country and it has many natural places. The weather there is very clean. The land of milk and honey is what the bible calls Lebanon. Its nickname is Beirut is Paris of the East. Shakira is the famous singer in the world who is half Lebanese. Five countries which surround Lebanon are Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus and Israel or Palestine in reality.

In 1943, Lebanon gained independence from France. Then the Christians held the power and Lebanese Muslims had little control over Lebanon. This contributed to increased tensions between them. In 1975 the tensions reached their peak, because the Christians killed a bus full of Palestinians in downtown Beirut. There were two result of the tensions which were revenge killings and violence that began to spiral out of control. In 1982, the Israeli army invaded the city witha the aim of removing the Palestinians Liberation Organization. However, a peace deal was reached in 1989. The human and economic cost of the conflict were Between 150,000 to 200,000 people ded, around 25% of population has left the country and Beirut's economy was paralyzed.

The four signs of social and economic recovery in Beirut are stands on the Cornich, Beirut's seafront promenade. It is a wonder how this country every over fell into civil war. The current problems in the Lebanon are almost 300,000 of young people have left. Another current problem that the unemployment remains very high. The Last problems is a lot of money is being made in the hand of a few.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"Eye on Lebanon." Globale Eye.25 Spring 2006. Royal Geograghic Society. 8 Apr. 2008.

( For more information about Lebanon War )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War

AND

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Lebanon_War.html

Conflict Diamond Power Point

To view my power point on conflict diamonds

- First, click the link below.
- Next, on the new page click Download File.

It may take a few seconds for the page to set itself up.

Download H00058937 diamon.ppt


A link to see more information about conflict diamond:

http://www.un.org/peace/africa/Diamond.html

My Carbon Footprint

A carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of greenhouse gases produced by human activities. It measures your consumption of food, energy, goods, services and housing. Also it shows how a big the effect is on the environment. After taking the quiz at www.footprint.wwf.org.uk/ my score was 5.00 planets which mean that if every one lived my lifestyle, we would need 5 earths.

I found that have quite a lot of problems. One of them was traveling. That means I'm using my car a lot and traveling by plane for long distances. Another issue was my consumption of electricity and water at home. A third matter is that I never recycle which contribute to my footprint.

On the other hand, there are some solutions to reduce my footprint. First, I need to walk instead of using my car when possible. Second, I have to turn off the air conditions in the rooms that I am not using. A final solution is that I must put the recyclable trash in the proper place like the one in spines supermarkets.

To conclude, I would like to say every one should try to reduce his carbon footprint. That will help to lower the amount of carbon dioxide in the world and make it safer for our next generation.

To get more details about carbon footprint:

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/


An interesting video about carbon footprint:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIhnDvb7Exo