First, I would like to thank you for all of your suggestions and for bearing with me when I was not posting.  You greatly contributed to our efforts and the documentary as a whole, and for that I am, along with everyone else, eternally thankful.  Now that we are finished, I would like to invite you to come watch our documentary on this Thursday at 10:00 (when we are supposed to be taking our final ).  I would be glad to see you there.  If you could either let me or Mrs. Pomerantz know if you are attending, we would be immensly grateful.

TS: Global Warming affects us all and therefore each individual must become active in order for a global change to occur.

Thesis: Global Warming is a current issue which encompasses the entire world, thus the entire world should know the facts.

First off our group is meeting tomorow in lab to finalize the editing, even though Andrew did a lot of it at home and we have nothing left to do in lab . I am sure we will find something to do though and Andrew probably saved us a good 15 minutes of work even though I know it took him much longer. So many thanks Andrew . We will probably figure out how we want to present the questions to the audience and how we want to fit my interview with Frau and Andrew’s footage from Earth day in.  I am going to push to meet on Thursday in lab and, depending on what we get done in class and lab tomorow, after school too because I really do not want to get up earlier than I have too .

This article does not take the same position as the one that states that GW may help by preventing hurricane landfalls but it does discuss how it is most likely not making hurricanes stronger.  It attributes the strengthening of hurricanes in the last 13 years to a natural cycle that happens every few decades and it is just a coincidence that it is happening the same time as GW.  It did mention that GW may prevent hurricanes from reaching land but it seemed that there was no hard evidence to support this (is there ever?).

 Good for Effects on the World. Some Researchers See No Link Between Global Warming, Hurricane Activity

The Maldives is a chain of islands that compose a small country.  They fear that when Global Warming gets bad enough to raise the sea level, that their entire country will disappear beneath the ocean.  The president of the Maldives has tried political approaches to solve Global Warming such as signing the Kyoto Protocal but he fears it will not invoke enough change to save his tiny country.  So he has built a wall around one of the islands that make up his country, he did so by convincing Japan to pay for it.  However it makes the island less attractive and draw less tourists, which is the country’s main income.  To solve this engineers pumped sand from the ocean floor into a shallw lagoon and created another island.  This island is substantially higher than the sea level and they hope that this height difference will be enough to suffice.

 This pertains great to the prevention, my, group but it does not have a substantial amount of information and I have found no other solutions such as these so I am a little hesitant to use this.

 Maldives Build Barriers Against Global Warming

While the specifics were not provided this story talks about a very energy efficient and environmentally friendly city.  The highlights being zero carbon emissions, zero waste, 75% reduced water production, 80% water recycled, and run completely on 100% renewable energy.  Like I stated before, they did not go into the details of how they planned on achieving this idealistic city or even when it would be put into place.  From the scarce details I was able to pick up it seemed that to eliminate carbon emissions each person would have their own little magnetic, I think, tram which would take them directly to where they needed to go or to a sort of monorail run exclusively on renewable energy.

This plan has great potential but I fear that it will end up being unreachable and just another Utopian idea.  This works great for my group, prevention, but seeing as not too many details are discussed there is not much to work from.

The Future of Masdar City

How often do you take trips to Germany?

On your trips have you noticed any prominent environmental laws? If so what? (hopefully something about der Grüne Punkt)

What exactly is der Grüne Punkt?

How do you believe this helps with environmentaly issues such as GW?

Does the government do anything else such as this to help the earth?

Have you ever heard of the U.S. doing anything such as this? If so what? or if not Why do you think that is?

 If anyone could make any suggestions, I would be much obliged.  If you did not know this already, “Frau” means Mrs. in German, so these are questions for my German teacher about a law on recycling in Germany which we learned about last year.

1. Recycling cans on driveways, as cost for trash increases so do the amount of people recycling

2. Hybrid cars

3. Lightbulbs in fan or lighting fixture changing, one by one, to energy efficient bulbs (the curly ones)those turn on and make the world a little brighter, easiest to do and has a message that says “if we dont change who will” seems to give the biggest meaning for something that relates to everyone.

4. Big industrial smokestack releasing lots of gas into air

5. Solar panels/wind powered generators popping up in fields (harder to do)

Hi my name is Brandon S and I am a student at Parkway North High.  Our english class is doing a documentary over GW and I was wondering if anyone in your department would be willing and who would have the time to answer a few questions to be used in the film. . .Thank you very much! I will contact him/her (or) Well thank you for your time anyway.

Hi my name is Brandon S and I am a student at Parkway North High.  Our english class is doing a documentary over GW and I was wondering if I could take a moment of your time and set up an appointment for us to meet so that I could ask you a few short questions.

1. How can people help stop GW?

2. Can you give us a list of things people can do?

3. How does recylcing help prevent GW?

4. What kind of things make GW worse or even cause it?

5. How can the government help the situation?