The effect of Global warming in Russia

In Russia, the increase in the heat caused pipelines to be destroyed and houses to fall down. This is caused because pipe lines and house are build in a place where there is ice and the increase in the heat caused the ice to melt and affected the structure of the houses and pipe lines. Not only had that but the routes in which the trucks are traveling become more dangerous, since the ice melted the trucks fall into holes where once trucks used to drive safely in.

UAE and Global Warming

Here is an article that I took from Gulf News.

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Kareem Shaheen, Gulf News

The United Nations recently warned of the consequences of complacency in combating global warming. In a report detailing the effects of the phenomenon, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted an apocalyptic end of the century, with as many as 30 per cent of the earth's species risking annihilation. With increasingly fierce advocacy on either side of the global climate change spectrum, it has become increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, with the result being that the term 'global warming' itself warrants clarification. "Globally, the atmosphere and the oceans are getting warmer," said Dr Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, a professor at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). Dr Bendik-Keymer teaches a course on environmental ethics at AUS, in which students analyse the lines of argument adopted by United States politician Al Gore in the book version of his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Dr Bendik-Keymer dubbed the course as an attempt at raising "environmental literacy," a goal he champions also by appearing daily on the radio show The Green Team on the Dubai Eye channel. Intensifies extremes Elaborating on his definition of global warming, he noted that a result of global warming is that it "intensifies extremes," meaning that certain areas with harshly cold environments will also get colder, despite an overall increase in global temperature. Conservative estimates point to a 2-3 degrees Fahrenheit increase by the end of the century, whereas higher estimates constitute double or triple the conservative figure, according to Dr Bendik-Keymer. Greenhouse effect The leading theory on global warming attributes the increase in the earth's temperature to the 'greenhouse effect.' Heat or thermal radiation emitted from the Earth's surface is retained due to the presence of 'greenhouse gases' such as carbon dioxide, which prevent some of this radiation from escaping into space, hence keeping the planet warm. Processes such as the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas increase the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, thus contributing to a more potent greenhouse effect. Dr Bendik-Keymer attributed the general lack of urgency to education as well as inertia, denouncing the "high-speed" economic structure for de-emphasising larger issues such as global warming in favour of micromanagement. The politicising of global warming issue has also largely served as a block to the introduction of legislation to curb its effects. Sea level rising A direct effect of this increase in global temperature, and one which could pose more of a problem to the region than the increase in temperature itself, is the rise in sea level. According to Dr Bendik-Keymer, conservative estimates point to an increase of a quarter to half a metre in sea level as a result of global warming, caused by the melting of the polar ice caps, over the next 80 years. However, these estimates do not take into account landlocked ice, whose melting would drastically alter these ballpark figures. Civil unrest Chaos in coastal regions could lead to an even worse scenario – political and social turmoil, said Dr Bendik-Keymer. Recalling that the Rwanda massacre was preceded by famine, he warned of similar unrest in the making. Communities living in the delta regions in countries such as Bangladesh would be the hardest-hit by the rise in sea levels, in addition to water depletion as a result of soil aridity in Africa, spelling doom for the poorer segments of the world's population. An ironic turn of events is that the developing nations of the world are set to foot the bill for the follies of the first world. Increased awareness Yet all is not lost. Dr. Bendik-Keymer detailed changes which could help reduce the global warming trend on a worldwide scale, not the least of which was increased education and public awareness of environmental issues. He underlined the necessity of forcing companies to "internalise externalities," by incorporating the cost of polluting the environment into their products, thus forcing them to reduce pollutants in order to drive down costs. Finally, a way of enforcing environmental measures and treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol is necessary. It seems evident beyond any reasonable doubt that the planet is under duress. How far we can influence trends in the global climate, or even if we should, is up for debate. However one thing is clear: awareness of the issue globally is on the rise, and this is one trend we ought to latch on to. Environmental Initiative Masafi, the regional market leader in the bottled mineral water industry launch a plastic recycling initiative across UAE. The initiative will involve 10 schools in the pilot phase and will be later rolled out to additional 30 schools across the country. As part of the initiative, recycling stations (dispensers) will be dedicated to the designated schools in order to encourage the concept of recycling among the children and parents. The recycling stations will be placed next to the Masafi vending dispensers at the educational institutions. Published: 05/19/2007 12:00 AM (UAE) http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/05/19/0000.html ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ This article give us informations about Global Warming and its situation in the UAE. From this article I can say that the UAE are doing something about Global Warming and I think its a good thing to do recycling stations. This article also talks about the effects and causes of Global Warming which I already talked about in my blog. I think that UAE is on the right track to stop Global Warming and building the recycling stations are step number one to stop Global Warming. The UAE tries to spread the facts of Global Warming among the people which is a good thing.

My action plan

At the beginning I didn’t know that the global warming had all these affects on the planet we live in. As other people do their part in protecting the environment I had to think of what can I do to help.

The first thing I decided to do is to reduce the consumption of electricity by turning the lights of when I go out of my room even for a minute. It might not have a big affect but on a long time basis it will help. Also when everyone goes to sleep I go around the house checking what I can turn of like the living room lights, AC in the living room and other equipment that aren’t necessary to work at night.

Another approach I will do is installing a new catalytic converter and oxygen sensors in my car. This will reduce the emission of carbon dioxide from my car. I told my brothers to take their cars to install catalytic converters in their cars since they don’t have one installed. I also decided to not use my car a lot except if am going for a long distance. Before even if I want go to the market I use my car and its just one kilometer away , now I started going walking when I want to buy small stuff. This can help reducing the emission from my car.

To reduce the use of plastic bags I started going shopping carefour because they provide bags that are recyclable and can be used for many time with tearing. In this way I helped a lot because I used to use a lot of plastic bags when going shopping or when going on a trip, but now with these carbon bags I can reuse them every time I need to.

The final approach is that I will look into using solar panels to generate energy for my house.

My Summary

People must be aware of Global Warming because of its side effects on the earth. While I was doing my research on Global Warming I notices that not too many people care about Global Warming and they think that it is just a natural thing. I think those people must consider Global Warming as a problem in their lives and don't keep ignoring it and try to do something about it.

In the main time, the economy of most the countries depends on industry that release green house gas emissions which is the main reason of Global Warming. There are other reason of Global Warming which are natural like volcanoes but there are not dangerous as the human made pollutions.