Global Warming

First of all global warming is gradual increase in the earth's surface temperature. Some people are saying that it is caused by effects of the greenhouse gases which are emitted by humans. A group of scientists called International Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, said that there are several ways that global warming is happening because of the greenhouse gases. Most of which comes from combustion of fossil fuels in cars, factories and electricity products. Also because of that ice is melting especially at the Earths poles. The sea level has risen faster over the last century. Raining and snowing has increased around the world. We can use alternative ways to power the world such as; biofuel, fuel cells, geothermal energy, hydropower, solar energy and also, wind power. Recently I learned that Texas is America’s biggest greenhouse gas polluter. Some scientists are predicting that we will be driven into extinction. According to some researchers the most places that are at risk are Tropical Andes, Southwest Australia, California and Africa. There are also do some other stuff to help against global warming. Start recycling more, use less heat and air conditioning, drive less, turn of lights and stuff when you’re not using them, and also tell others to do the same. Austin also has a plan called Austin Climate Protection Plan to help fight against global warming and it was created by Austin’s mayor Will Wynn. It hopes by 2020 it will make most things by carbon-neutral which includes cars, municipal facilities operations. At least I know that Austin is doing something about global warming as far as I know. My school recycles or something like that between a week and a month.

I got all this information from these sites:

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_marcher.asp?1093667
http://environment.about.com/od/globalwarming/tp/globalwarmtips.htm
http://www.house.gov/doggett/speeches/080616AustinGlobalWarmingPressConference.shtml
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-causes.html
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-effects.html
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/alternative-energy/
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=scientists-predict-extinc

Spring break

Finally spring break is here. This is the 2nd thing I look forward to after winter break. The first is when school is over and you can move to another grade after a big break. Before the week of spring break it gets really hard to pay attention in any class for me so I try my best just go on. The Friday before spring breaks gets sort of weird. Basically you do nothing in class most of the time and just chill with your friends and have fun. This Friday has been sort of the same but I have done work in all my classes except one. The work wasn’t hard though. Well we also were in lockdown because of couple of reasons. One there were lots of fights today. Some people are saying between 6 and 14 fights. Some people are also saying there have been some threats to the school today. They say that somebody with a gun is in school but they don’t know who. So there a lot of teachers and PISD officers here watching the hallways. So finally the day is over I go home and relax. I might go to Houston or Dallas during the break to meet my cousins I will get bored though, that’s the only part that I don’t like. I will also probably go watch some movies but I don’t know which ones. I will also hang out with my friends and go to the mall or hang out at their places. Some teacher also decided to give us HW over the break and that sucks. I have to read out of some big stupid book because we have a quiz, which she probably won’t count them like always. I still hope that my spring break goes good and I have doing what I will be doing.