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HOW CAN EUROPE SAVE THE WORLD???
Part 1: Summary:
The EU decided to decrease the carbon percentage when the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, emerging as a European politician in the great tradition of Adenauer, Brandt, Delors, Mitterand and Kohl, used the current German presidency of the EU to mastermind an epic commitment on tackling climate change and energy security .Twenty seven EU countries will decrease their CO2 emissions and increase their use of the renewable resources like nuclear energy, as in France. Technology has been put in Europe to reduce carbon emissions in the cars and farmers are compensated to use their farms for the biofuel plants which will appear by 2020.There are problems with renewable energy: it is expensive, windmills disturb the natural life, the mass of biofuel areas as in the Amazon destroys the rain forests. Climate change is a reality and one of the results of the establishment of the European Union is to try to deliver collective European benefits that no one country could achieve alone, but all they can do now is to decrease the use of fossil fuels.

Part 2:

Main IDEA:
1. KYOTO agreement and the EU’S efforts to decrease carbon emissions.
2. Angel Merkel + the new EU initiative
3. Achieve the goal of reducing 60% of the carbon by 2050.












Part 3:
Comment:

I am very happy to write about this problem and I learn lots of information that I didn`t know before. Didn't Europe agree to cut emissions several years ago when they signed on to Kyoto? Isn't it also true that no cuts were ever made? So what will change now except a bunch of political hot air and no changes in carbon emissions? And I don't believe manmade global warming is an accepted fact I believe there is still quite a debate going on about this and I think we will solve this problem in next 5 or 10 years.

Task 5

CARBON FOOTPRINT


The carbon footprint is the measurement for the impact that the human activities have on the earth. It’s mostly the measurement of the carbon dioxide.
We could measure our carbon footprint from two sites, and we took the average from the both sites. The first site - http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ - I got 4.49. The questions were classified in four categories food, travel, home and stuff. In the second site - http://www.myfootprint.org/ – I got 6.71 .The questions were first about your home and your family, then about what do you do to save energy, and about your food. The average I got was 5.6, so if everyone in the world uses as much as me so they need five planets and a half.
My classmates: some of them got lower than me and some got more than me, the ones less than I got 3.53 and the one are more than me got 6.1 and 9.17. The UAE is considered one of the highest rates of energy consumption per person in the world, if not the highest.
So we have to do something to save the energy and to reduce our carbon footprint especially in the UAE. We can adjust the AC and turn it back up a few degrees and turn it off when you leave home. You will save money and you will make your footprint less. You can use energy saving light bulbs, it’s more efficient and it lasts 10 times longer. So you will reduce your footprint and save your money also so every time you are going out you turn everything off and try to make your carbon footprint smaller and smaller.

BIBLIOGRAPHY





· Foot Print Calculator. 8 Apr. 2009 .


· Heroes of The UAE. 8 Apr. 2009 .


· Ecological Footprint Quiz. 8 Apr. 2009 .

An Inconvenient truth
An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s movie about global warming. Some people say that Al Gore reminds the whole world about a serious problem and others say he was getting revenge on Bush and Republicans for his loss in the presidential race. In this essay I will research whether Al Gore is warning humanity or getting revenge.
As Roger Ebert says in rogerebert.com “Global warming is real, it is caused by human activity.” Roger agrees with Al Gore that in 10 years our planet will reach its “Tipping point” and will go down toward destruction. He explained how Al Gore worked hard for six years to show humanity his documentary and provided us with statistics to prove that a disaster is coming and we should focus on it. Then he starts talking about his friend and how he did not care about Al Gore’s movie and said it is boring. At the end of the review he advocates all people to contribute with Al Gore in his project.
Scott said in his review in the NY Times that Al Gore was showing off and his lecture was against the Bush administration and Republicans and Al Gore is acting like a saint and how he was trying to affect the audience emotionally by his sister’s death because of the tobacco his father was growing on their farm. Then he said that Al Gore was advertising himself and mixed politics with science.
I am with Al Gore because it is a serious problem and soon it will appear to the world and then we won’t have time to solve it and he gave us evidence that proves he is right and people who are against him must think again and again. The United Nation and governments around the world must participate in this campaign and help stop destroying our planet.

Biography

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/movies/24trut.html

Global warming voice