2019/11/06

Global warming

Nowadays, Global warming becomes a major problem. It has increased the overall temperature by 30 degrees and keeps increasing! Give your opinions and solutions.

18 comments:

  1. Hello, Global warming is a major problem as you say. If we don't change our way of living, temperatures won't stop increasing and it will become an even bigger problem. I don't think people realize how much global warming is a major problem. To change things I think first of all that on TV programmes ,celebrities, teacher, parents,…should talk more about global warming and about the environment. Second of all, we should change our habits, for example, if every day you buy a bottle of water, your plastic bottles will add to pollution, so why don’t you just buy a metal bottle and refill it from the tap? If every day we make an effort to change our habits, we can definitely make a difference. I think big companies should act too, Starbucks cut down more than a million trees every year to make plastic cups, and they are not even recyclable, that’s unbelievable! Macdonald’s has stopped using plastic straws and plastic cups, which is already a step in the right direction.
    There are many other ways to slow global warming, but I think that information, personal efforts and the efforts of big international companies are essential

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  2. Hello, I think that Global warming is a very important subject to talk about.
    First of all, Global warming is due to greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. These gases increase in number and augment greenhouse effect which retains more heat.
    The CO2 is one of the main greenhouse gases. There is a big increase of CO2 emissions since 1950. In 2016, there was 26 times more CO2 emissions than in 1950.
    Moreover, global warming has several causes: deforestation, use of fossil fuels (coal, petrol, gases), transports (car, airplanes...) and others.
    Furthermore, there are a lot of consequences. The glaciers melt so that the animals like polar bears die and the level of the oceans rises. This is the reason why some islands disappear.
    There are more natural disasters like hurricanes, tidal waves, heat waves or wildfire.
    A lot of plant and animal species are disappearing. Agricultural yields decline, resulting in food scarcity. Owing to the very hot temperatures in several countries, there are a lot of climate migrants who take refuge in colder lands.
    In order to slow global warming, the Paris agreement was set up in 2016. One of its goals is that every person emits 2 tonnes of CO2 per year whereas, actually, French people emit averagely 10 tonnes of CO2 per year per person.
    Nevertheless, there are a lot of things that we can and must do to save our Earth. We have to reduce our heating and cooling consumption. We must use renewable energies instead of fossil fuels. We have to sort our waste. We need to travel by public transport or by foot. We should reduce our meat consumption. We have to buy less prepared products (cakes, ketchup, Nutella...) because most of them contain palm oil and therefore contribute to deforestation. We must raise awareness around us, because it’s our generation and the next ones that are threatened.
    To conclude, in my opinion, if everyone does little things for Earth we can change everything.

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    1. Sorry I made some mistakes:
      -these gases increase in number and greenhouse
      -In order to decrease
      -reduce

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  3. Hello !
    I'm going to talk about that subject.
    First, we have to know what's Global warming.

    Definition : Global warming is the long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system. It is a major aspect of climate change, and has been demonstrated by direct temperature measurements and by measurements of various effects of the warming.

    Over time, there has been a significant increase in CO2 from human activities.
    At the North Pole, icebergs and glaciers melt and the biodiversity and ecosystems of the species that live there changes enormously.
    Scientists have proven that in 50 years, there will be a stronger extinction of the species that will appear.
    This will not change, however, only for animals but also for humans, vegetation, water currents, food and habitat of living species.

    I think that this is really sad. The planet was "healthy" before humans completely changed it.
    Now young people of our generation like Greta Thunberg, for example, will have to try to change these problems that our grandparents left us.
    This is not going to be easy because we are in a society of consammation very present.
    Moreover, teenagers are even more concerned than old people because most of the time we are bigger consumers than our parents.


    I think I have some solutions for that :

    1. The first way to prevent climate change is to move away from fossil fuels. What are the alternatives? Renewable energies like solar, wind, biomass and geothermal.

    2. Producing clean energy is essential, but reducing our consumption of energy and water by using more efficient devices (e.g. LED light bulbs, innovative shower system) is less costly and equally important.

    3. Promoting public transportation, carpooling, but also electric and hydrogen mobility, can definitely help reduce CO2 emissions and thus fight global warming.

    4. In order to reduce the CO2 emissions from buildings - caused by heating, air conditioning, hot water or lighting - it is necessary both to build new low energy buildings, and to renovate the existing constructions.

    5. Encouraging better use of natural resources, stopping massive deforestation as well as making agriculture greener and more efficient should also be a priority.

    6. Adopting responsible consumption habits is crucial, be it regarding food (particularly meat), clothing, cosmetics or cleaning products. Last but not least, recycling is an absolute necessity for dealing with waste

    Thank you for reading my text !

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  4. Hello !
    Global warming is becoming a huge problem nowadays. Indeed, the tempature is increasing year by year and it's really worrying. A lot of experts looked into the situation to try to solve this problem. Also, I would like to say that the majority of the population take the global warming as something inoffensive, something created by the Chinese as Donald Trump said in 2012 but it's a major problem. To stop the global warming, I think that we should firstly:
    - Use renewable energies
    - increase the sensibility of the people for the global warming for exeample, put signs, more recycling bin in the street.
    -reduce the utilisation of transports that produce a lot of CO2
    such as cars, planes, scooter
    - use energy saving appliances.

    Bilel Hommada TS2

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  5. Global warming is the phenomenon of increasing average oceanic and atmospheric temperatures, caused by the amount of heat trapped on the Earth's surface by greenhouse gases.
    This theme is very important because I think it is very serious but we treat this major problem lightly while the global warming concerns us because we live on Earth and the next generations (and ourselves) will suffer the consequences .
    Climate warming is needed and we see the consequences such as the fact that animal and plant species disappear, there are heat waves, ice floes, rising water ...
    Certainly, demonstrations and marches take place here to make the government react to its action, but I think that is not enough and that we must react.
    We can do small things, like unsubscribe spam mail, recycle our waste, limit plastic, favor the bus and bike instead of the car, reduce our energy consumption ....

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  6. Hello!

    The signs of global warming are everywhere, and are more complex than just climbing temperatures but also extreme weather events, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, rising seas, and a range of other impacts.
    A lot of people think that it's not that bad and the others will make efforts. But no it is not like that we have to start, we have to do small actions that over time will mean a lot and by this fact we will influence others to do it too.
    We can start with simple things :

    -Stop buying product with palm oil
    -Sort your waste
    -Consume less water
    -Shut off your electrical appliances when you don't use them
    -Eat more local food
    -Use public transportation
    -Use "Ecosia" for your research on internet
    ...

    And there are many more little things we can do which will help the planete because we only have one earth and we have to protect it.

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  7. Global warming is due to the release of greenhouse gases in very large quantities, for example when we burn fossil fuels such as oil or coal.
    Pollution flows global warming.
    This global warming increases the frequency and violence of natural disasters, creates hot summers and freezing winters, makes forests more vulnerable to fire, and causes species to disappear.
    Secondly, pollution increases the risk of cardiovascular or lung disease.
    As we can see, human actions are reducing slowly the lifetime of the earth and we are gradually approaching the extinction of human space.
    I don’t think the public realizes how much we are in danger and how serious the situation is. Each one of us live without worrying about the damage we do in our path.
    I also think that we don’t talk about it enough, that climate warming is for many an abstract subject, not explaining enough to others.
    I think the media should talk more about it.
    It is necessary to remedy to this by acting quickly to save us, and the earth.
    If everyone is trying to help the planet, billions of people, I’m sure it could help.
    Everyone should reduce their water consumption, sort their waste and especially not throw it on the ground, buy clean products for the environment and use renewable energies.
    In conclusion, I think it’s something to take seriously, and even if the government is preserving certain areas and trying to improve things, I think they should do more. This subject has touched all of us and it is important to deal with it.

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  8. Hello !
    First of all, I’m truly sad for all the animals which suffer from Global Warming. I’m really concerned about the icecaps melting and polar bears losing their habitat.I think it’s a shame that some people still believe that global warming is a myth and not a reality. Besides it’s entirely our fault, and we should take up our share of responsability to help the planet. Nevertheless, I don’t really think we can stop this phnomenon, but at least we can try. We must change some of our dialy activities. For exemple people in town should walk instead of taking their car, or should take the bus (if they don’t like to walk).
    To conclude with, if everybody adopts those new environmental habits, we can hope for a better future.
    Bye!

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  9. Global warming is actually one of the most important subjects in the world. Many demonstrations and associations are trying to fight against Earth’s climate change, species extinction, ice melt, waste plastics, and ocean acidification. The young Swedish girl Greta Thunberg is an example to follow: she wants to live in a better world so she fights to change people’s ways of thinking and living. She also denounces Governments which get the power but don’t do anything with it. As she says we are the only culprits of our actual world. Governments have signed the COP21 in 2015 to limit the global warming at 2 degrees in 2100. However, we live in a capitalist system, so people, industries and countries are often only acting for money but they don’t realize the consequences on the planet. In theory if everyone would change their “bad” habits, things would be better. That’s why some shops or companies are developing their own local, biological or recyclable products. Indeed they also don’t destroy the environment or kill any animal. These alternative solutions are very interesting and helpful. In conclusion Humans are bemoaning their fate but they must take a step forward. We have to act and to save the planet. The future is in our hands.

    Mathilde Haÿ 104

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    1. I've made some mistakes :
      -ice melting
      -plastic waste
      -Government who have power
      -they only act
      -if everyone could change

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  10. Hello, here is my correction:
    -take our

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  11. Hello !
    I think Global warming becomes a major problem . It is very sad because it generates a lot of problem (there is a melting ice, rising sea level, catstrophe: flood, typhoons ....) and many others.
    to fight against that there are many solutions:
    -Let's change our eating habits
    -Reduce our meat consumption
    -Fight against deforestation
    -Preserve the oceans
    -Reduce our energy consumption
    -Consume clean energy
    there are of course other solutions but I would not go too much in the details.
    We all have to protect our planet.
    Bye
    Nouha BEN ABDELJELIL

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  12. Good morning/afernoon,
    The global warming is really alarming but people don't understand that we have to change their habits to be more ecologists. So, if we don't change, the temperature will keep increasing and our species will disapear but the planet keep living without us. Indeed, to prevent this we must do things all the days for our the planet :
    - pick up litter
    - consume less
    - using good environmental products
    - eating meat and fish less
    - recycling
    They are simple things realized and effective. Besides, many poeple prefere to keep their money than to take care of our planet. In fact, I think our country (policy) leaves the environment out and doesn't do enough gestures for planet. He should require more ecological things. Finally, we should talk more about this subject.
    RIDOLFI Stella TS4

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  13. Hello everyone,

    Global warming has become a very big subject, specially lately with the fires going on in Australia, thousands of animals are dying. The main problem is that we live in a society where we buy new things all the time, we follow fashion and we aren't even conscious of the damage that we are doing to our planet.
    Sadly we have already damaged immensely our planet, there is an ocean of plastic, but that's doesn't mean that we shouldn't start changing things.
    For a start we could stop buying new clothes each time fashion changes, stop buying a new phone every time because it isn't the latest model. We could also recycle all our rubbish everyday and stop eating fast foods every week. I am certain that if everyone did that it would already be a good start.

    Thank you for reading.
    Flannagan Olivia TS4

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  14. Hello,
    Global warming is a big problem for the human beings, indeed our planet more and more degrade. For example, there are many fires, like in Australia recently or many glacier melts. These problems are caused by humans who pollute our planet with our cars or our factories. I think the solution is too use more renewable energy. Thanks to the new technology improve our planet health, there is cars which use electric energy or photovoltaic panel which allows us allows us to warm up using solar energy. Waste production can be reduced to, if we avoid to throwour garbage in nature or if we sort. I don’t know if these solutions can save the planet, but they can be beneficial.

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  15. Global warming is a big problem for human beings, indeed our planet is more and more degrade. For example, there are many fires, like in Australia recently or many glacier melts. These problems are caused by humans who pollute our planet with our cars or our factories. I think the solution is too use more renewable energy. Thanks to the new technology we can improve our planet health, there is cars which use electric energy or photovoltaic panel which allows us to warm up using solar energy. Waste production can be reduced to, if we avoid to throwour garbage in nature or if we sort. I don’t know if these solutions can save the planet, but they can be beneficial.

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  16. Hello,
    Global warming is a subject that divides a lot because on one side we have people who think humans aren't the cause of this and on the other side there are people who know that humans are responsibles of it. For me, global warming is one of the consequences of human activity, it's the most important one. In my opinion, it's useless to denounce industries or whatever because what is done is done. I think now we should focus ourselves on what we can do to solve the problem. A lot of people think that it's too late, but as we see, global warming keeps getting worse. So, we have to react, especially us, the Young. We could use more public transportation in order to reduce CO2. We can also less buy industrial products in order to reduce their production. If everybody participaten, we can do something good for our planet. I know this seems impossible but we have to remember that every little act makes a difference.
    Claudia Trujillo TES4

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