Monday, March 23, 2009

An Inconvenient Truth



Because the global warming is a big issue, many people have talked about it; everyone with his own way. Al Gore is one of them, but as a political man it was weird for me that he made a movie about the global warming, it called an inconvenient truth. It’s a movie with a Al Gore giving a literature to a big group of people.
First he talked about the causes and according to what Al said, carbon dioxide is the main reason of the global warming because it increase the emission of the greenhouse and the main reason of the increasing of the carbon dioxide is that people now just rely on the new technologies and they don’t want to stop or even decrease using the fossil fuel, and how the population is rising which cause more using of the technologies and fossil fuels.
Then he mentioned the melting ice, which when it was white ice it reflect the sun emissions but when it become water is absorbing more heat from the sun which make the sea hot and cause more melting ice and that called the feedback cycle.
Al Gore thinks that if Americans just follow the Kyoto agreement, which is the only solution at the moment, is the best way to solve the global warming problem, and by using more efficient machines, higher mileage care, other transport efficiency and renewable technology.
He was really serious about Carbon capture sequestration, and that Americans did it before and they can do it again.

Global Main Problem

Global warming is the increase in the earth’s surface temperature; the world is facing this problem since the mid-twentieth century.[1] There are many natural causes which keep increase the earth temperature such as the greenhouse gasses, solar variation and volcanoes. In the other hand there are many causes that are human caused such as industrial output, fossil fuel (oil, gas and coal) and population; all of them are causing the increase in the carbon dioxide amount which is a very important element that has a hand in global warming.
Greenhouse gasses are increasing every year; heaters, coolers and ACs are the main source of those gasses. All countries warm or cold are part in this problem; countries with big population are more responsible because they consume more energy than others. They should work at finding alternatives to high numbers of cars, motorbikes and trains that powered by oil or coal.

We are already seeing the effect of global warming, in Europe the winter became shorter and warmer, and in Antarctica the ice begin to melt. Some countries like in south eastern Asia have faced a lot of floods, and I believe that the melting ice in south and north poles is the main cause of that.

[1] www.Wikipedia.org