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 * GLOBAL WARMING AND THE FIGHT TO BECOME "GREEN"

THE GREEN HOUSE EFFECT ** The Greenhouse effect is when heat gets trapped in the atmosphere and CO2 and Methane and starts heating up the earth. The CO2 occurs naturally from normal human activity. Theses gasses are keeping more and more heat in our atmosphere causing earth’s temperature to increase. The rising in temperature is doing many horrible things like melting the ice caps. It is also increasing the tide level resulting in floods.

GLOBAL WARMING: THE BIG PICTURE
Global Warming is causing a lot of problems throughout the world. This was caused by the pollution of the atmosphere from the usage of many things such as cars, planes and landfills. One gas, Carbon Dioxide, enters the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal. The amount of the gasses eventually increase causing disasters consisting of hurricanes, floods, storms and higher tides which were caused by the increase in temperature.


 * GLOBAL WARMING: CONTRIBUTING FACTORS **
 * There are a lot of things that contribute to global warming. Most of the things are caused by human activity. Humans are causing too much gas to enter the atmosphere and it is just making global warming worse. Some things that humans do are driving cars, wasting fuel to heat homes, leaving electricity on, and creating landfills. These things are allowing CO2 and other harmful gasses to enter the atmosphere. People ignoring the fact that global warming is actually happening is a factor. If people just realized that global warming is happening and it is a big deal they would do more things to stop it such as getting solar panels or driving electric cars. Even the littlest thing like not drinking out of plastic bottles could make a difference. Also people breathing can cause harm to the atmosphere. When people breathe they exhale C02 and that C02 enters the atmosphere. Therefore the bigger the population the more C02 there will be entering the atmosphere. Lastly another big contributor to the amount of methane in our atmosphere are cows. Cows produce about 14% of our atmosphere’s methane.**

This char represents the increase in the amount of CO2 concentration over the years. This shows that human activity has in fact increased the amount of CO2 level in the atmosphere.


 * GLOBAL WARMING: LOCAL EFFECTS **


 * Global Warming affects everybody and everything. For example if New York is flooded from the rising of sea level caused by global warming many people would have to move away. That would affect many nearby states because that would mean a lot more people would be moving in. This also means that people would lose there jobs so even more people would become homeless because there would not be enough jobs to go around. This could also affect the town of reading because if a lot of people need to find a new place to live and a lot of them come here; we would need to build a lot of new homes and even more schools. Those schools would cost a lot of money. It would also effect the animals in Massachusetts and surrounding areas because if more people are living in the same areas more animals would need to be killed in order to feed the increase in population so therefore the population of, for example cows, would decrease. **

 The people around the world should do a lot of things differently. I think that most our electric or gas things should be converted so they could be ran by solar panels. I also think that sports fields should be ran by solar panels. For example if Fenway Park got solar panels to run the lights they would save a lot of electricity when trying to run those huge lights. I also think that if all of the things on the highway were ran by solar panels the town and state would save money and the money they saved could be used to do other things like add more solar panels in public places like schools. We should also have our water heated by solar panels as well so that everything possible could be heated by solar panels so we could eliminate more gas entering our atmosphere and also save money. The last thing that we could do differently is while most people are making the switch to electric cars, those who still have gas cars could make a rule to walk to places that are less then 3 miles away. Solar Panel
 * WHAT YOUR AUDIENCE CAN DO DIFFERENTLY: AREA OF FOCUS: **** SOLAR PANELS. **

Global warming affects a lot of people, animals and places. There are many ways to prevent global warming and many ways to keep harmful gasses from entering our atmosphere. If people do not try to do things better for the environment awful things could happen like deadly storms and floods that could wipe out entire cities. There are many simple things and many big things that people can do to help the cause. People can do things like drinking water out of a tap to something more big like installing solar panels on your house or buying an electric car. All in all global warming is an awful thing but there are many ways that people can stop it if they just do simple things like recyclying and disposing waste properly.
 * A SUMMARY OF YOUR RESEARCH ** 

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 * That would cost around $16,000 **
 * Sun doesn’t always shine therefore you would need to buy a battery bank **.
 * The battery would cost $300 **
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