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THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
== Certain gases from the atmosphere trap energy from the sun and make the temperature rise. If we did not have these gases the earth would be a lot cooler. The greenhouse effect is what keeps us alive and warm. More CO2 and other gases are going into the atmosphere, and they are making the earth even hotter. Since human civilization is advancing we are using many more factories and cars. These things and many other things use a lot of fossil fuels, and when these fossil fuels are burned they go into the atmosphere. The atmosphere now has too much of these gases and is now causing the earth to get a lot hotter. The earth getting hotter is what is causing global warming. ==

GLOBAL WARMING: THE BIG PICTURE
Global warming is the increase in the temperature in the earth increase is killing many living things on earth today. Many fossil fuels that are burned by factories, cars and other things are causing global warming. We humans use a lot of fossil fuels, and a lot of unnecessary energy. If we just calmed down on what we were doing with these fuels, we would not have to worry about global warming.

Any one that lives in a modern day city is contributing to global warming. Even though you may think that you are not, you are. If you…
 * GLOBAL WARMING: CONTRIBUTING FACTORS **
 *  Drive a car
 *  Wash your clothes
 *  Read the newspaper
 *  Take car of a pet
 *  Turn on the lights
 *  Use electronics
 *  Walk on a carpet
 *  Cool/Heat your home
 *  -or-
 *  Keep your lawn green and cut,

YOUR ARE A CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING. Also, many other things are contributing to Global Warming. Factories, buses, cars etc, all contribute to global warming because they are all burning fossil fuels. These fossil fuels get trapped n the atmosphere and get trapped there. By getting trapped here, they make the earth hotter. These are some of the major things that contribute to global warming.

There are many effects that global warming has on Massachusetts. One effect is temperature increase. The facts state that the temperature in Amherst, Massachusetts has gone up 2 degrees Fahrenheit. Studies also show that by 2010, the temperature could rise to be 4 degrees hotter. Since the earth is getting hotter and hotter each year, we can expect that more people will die because of the heat. People believe that in 2050 deaths related to heat will go up by 50%. Elderly, in 2050, will have more of a chance to die because of heat then children. The warming of the earth also has effects on insects and animals. The warmer the earth gets the more disease carrying insects there are. This is dangerous because people have more of a chance of getting a disease from these insects, just because it is hotter outside. Since the sea level is raising a lot in Massachusetts, we are losing up to 65 acres of land each year. In Boston, the water is rising 11 inches per century, about 1.1 inches a year.
 * GLOBAL WARMING: LOCAL EFFECTS **

This is directed to all adults and kids all around the world. What is recycling? Recycling is taking something old, and making it into something new.
 * WHAT YOUR AUDIENCE CAN DO DIFFERENTLY: One specific area of focus **

Recycling helps prevent global warming by reducing green house gas emissions. Also, it helps preserve natural resources because we would not need to use fuels to cut down trees to make more paper. Instead, people can just use recycled paper. Lastly, many recyclable products take up space in landfills, when they should not be there. Since these items take up space and a long time to decompose, they will be in the landfills for a long time. Since they will be there so long, we will eventually run out of landfill space, unless people start to recycle.
 * Why is recycling important? **

HERE ARE SOME FUN FACTS ABOUT RECYCLING THAT MIGHT MAKE YOU WANT TO RECYCLE:
 *  When you recycle aluminum can, it will spend as little as 60 days in the factory then it will be back on a shelf in the grocery store.
 *  If you recycle an aluminum can, it can save enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
 *  If you throw away aluminum can, it will most likely be in a landfill 500 years from now.
 *  By producing the Sunday newspaper we have to cut down 500,000 trees.
 *  We could save 250,000,000 trees a year if everyone recycled their news paper.
 * <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> Each year in the U.S. I billion trees worth of paper are tossed in the garbage can instead of the recycling bin.
 * <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> An average American uses 680 pounds of paper each year.
 * <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> Every 2000 pounds of paper can save 3 cubic yards of landfill, 178 trees, and 380 gallons of oil, 7000 gallons of water and 400 kilowatts of energy.
 * <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> By throwing plastic bags and other plastic materials in the ocean each year, we are killing 1,000,000 sea animals.
 * <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> Each month Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill a skyscraper.

Many people think that they do not need to recycle because a lot of other people are, but you are wrong. Everyone needs to recycle, it is very important to the future of our planet. People think that recycling is stupid, and it does not make a difference, but it makes a huge difference. Recycling is one of the easiest ways to help our planet. It does not cost extra money to recycle, and it does not take extra time to recycle. So, PLEASE RECYCLE. You can make a difference by doing little things like recycling. And, **remember REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE! **

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 * <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: green; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Watch this REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE video **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: green; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">

A SUMMARY OF YOUR RESEARCH **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> Overall, we need to stop putting a lot of gases into our atmosphere. By not recycling we are putting a lot of gases into our atmosphere. This is not good because it is making our earth warmer. OF, our earth get warmer and warmer, in the future it will not be good. If we recycle we are eliminating a lot of gases that go into the atmosphere, and the earth’s temperatures will not rise as much.
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