An Inconvenient Truth - Global Warming Cartoon

Individual Actions

As we all know that global warming causes and affects are many, so having just governments to solve this issue is not enough. All people should cooperate and we must have a positive reaction toward what happens around us. The reduction of CO2 is a must wither it is easy or not. There are many ways that individuals can reduce CO2 emissions and I’m going to mention several points.

Individuals in the UAE can do a lot to help their environment getting better and better b reducing CO2. For instance, some people can donate in a project which tries to educate people in how to organize and reduce the usage of electricity and water. The second action that people can use a bicycle or motorcycle instead of using the car to reach any place they want. That will definitely help to decrease CO2 in air. The last action is that individuals should have more and more plants in their houses and that will help reduce the amount of CO2 by releasing more oxygen into air.

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UAE and Global Warming

The UAE is taking a good step and it is moving in the right track in trying to effective in solving the global warming issue. Raising awareness between Emiratis is the first positive step that the UAE took in this year. For instance, Abu Dhabi schools, with the help of the Environment Agency. Around 20 Government and Private Abu Dhabi schools switched off electricity power for 1 hour on that day in each place at the school, except administration offices. The second activity is that the Deputy Prime Minister and Board Chairman of the Environment Agency said that the Environment 2007 Exhibition and Conference is the most important event happened in Abu Dhabi. The Conference focused mainly on energy sources and the main environmental issues and how to make our technologies safer for the environment. His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan invited a Japanese delegation and they discussed the global warming issue and they pointed that a strategy to manage the current global warming trend. The Japanese delegation showed its full cooperation with our country and it is going to act positively with the UAE government trying to solve this problem.

Rising sea levels

Many scientists and experts warned us that the global warming will cause a dramatic rise in sea levels. Heat expansion has already raised the oceans 10 to 20 centimeters. But that's nothing compared to what would happen if, for example, Greenland's huge ice sheet melted. There is study at the University of Arizona in Tucson says that even with a small sea level rise, humans are going to destroy whole nations and their cultures that have lived on earth for thousands of years. This University’s students did a map that shows how coastal cities and island countries are going to be like when the sea rises at different levels. (The map picture is showen)

Effects of global warming

Many noticeable points indicate that global warming effects have already taken place during the past century. There are several effects that caused by global warming. The first effect is that the global average temperature will increase more and more. That is why we are suffering from heat increase in the world and especially in the Middle East. The second effect is that rising sea levels. When the heat rises up and the arctic ice melts, sea levels will rise and that will cause an increase in number of Floods on earth like what happened in some Asian countries in previous years. Yet another effect is that the oceans will have an increase in its temperature and that might lead to Elimination of fish and other sea animals.