GLOBAL WARMING

What is global warming?  Global warming is when the earth heats up (the temperature rises).  It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and methane) trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, which increases the temperature.  This hurts many people, animals, and plants.  Many cannot take the change, so they die. What is the greenhouse effect? The greenhouse effect is when the temperature rises because the sun’s heat and light is trapped in the earth’s atmosphere.  This is like when heat is trapped in a car. On a very hot day, the car gets hotter when it is out in the parking lot.  This is because the heat and light from the sun can get into the car, by going through the windows, but it can’t get back out.  This is what the greenhouse effect does to the earth.  The heat and light can get through the atmosphere, but it can’t get out.  As a result, the temperature rises. The squiggle lines coming from the sun are visible light and the lines and arrows inside the car are infrared light.  The sun’s heat can get into the car through the windows but is then trapped.  This makes what ever the place might be, a greenhouse, a car, a building, or the earth’s atmosphere, hotter.  This diagram shows the heat coming into a car as visible light (light you can see) and infrared light (heat).  Once the light is inside the car, it is trapped and the heat builds up, just like it does in the earth’s atmosphere.Sometimes the temperature can change in a way that helps us.  The greenhouse effect makes the earth appropriate for people to live on.  Without it, the earth would be freezing, or on the other hand it would be burning hot.  It would be freezing at night because the sun would be down.  We would not get the sun’s heat and light to make the night somewhat warm.  During the day, especially during the summer, it would be burning because the sun would be up with no atmosphere to filter it, so people, plants, and animals would be exposed to all the light and heat.                                Although the greenhouse effect makes the earth able to have people living on it, if there gets to be too many gases, the earth can get unusually warmer, and many plants, animals, and people will die.  They would die because there would be less food (plants like corn, wheat, and other vegetables and fruits).  This would happen because the plants would not be able to take the heat.  This would cause us to have less food to eat, but it would also limit the food that animals have.  With less food, like grass, for the animals that we need to survive (like cows) we would even have less food.  Gradually, people, plants, and animals would all die of hunger.   What are greenhouse gasses? Greenhouse gasses are gasses are in the earth’s atmosphere that collect heat and light from the sun.  With too many greenhouse gasses in the air, the earth’s atmosphere will trap too much heat and the earth will get too hot.  As a result people, animals, and plants would die because the heat would be too strong.  What is global warming doing to the environment? Global warming is affecting many parts of the world.  Global warming makes the sea rise, and when the sea rises, the water covers many low land islands.  This is a big problem for many of the plants, animals, and people on islands.  The water covers the plants and causes some of them to die.  When they die, the animals lose a source of food, along with their habitat.  Although animals have a better ability to adapt to what happens than plants do, they may die also.  When the plants and animals die, people lose two sources of food, plant food and animal food.  They may also lose their homes.  As a result, they would also have to leave the area or die.  This would be called a break in the food chain, or a chain reaction, one thing happening that leads to another and so on.   The oceans are affected by global warming in other ways, as well.  Many things that are happening to the ocean are linked to global warming.  One thing that is happening is warm water, caused from global warming, is harming and killing algae in the ocean. Algae is a producer that you can see floating on the top of the water.  (A producer is something that makes food for other animals through photosynthesis, like grass.)  This floating green algae is food to many consumers in the ocean.  (A consumer is something that eats the producers.)  One kind of a consumer is small fish.  There are many others like crabs, some whales, and many other animals.  Fewer algae is a problem because there is less food for us and many animals in the sea.                        Global warming is doing many things to people as well as animals and plants.  It is killing algae, but it is also destroying many huge forests.  The pollution that causes global warming is linked to acid rain.  Acid rain gradually destroys almost everything it touches.  Global warming is also causing many more fires that wipe out whole forests.  This happens because global warming can make the earth very hot.  In forests, some plants and trees leaves can be so dry that they catch on fire.  What causes global warming?   Many things cause global warming.  One thing that causes global warming is electrical pollution.  Electricity causes pollution in many ways, some worse than others.  In most cases, fossil fuels are burned to create electricity.  Fossil fuels are made of dead plants and animals.  Some examples of fossil fuels are oil and petroleum.  Many pollutants (chemicals that pollute the air, water, and land) are sent into the air when fossil fuels are burned.  Some of these chemicals are called greenhouse gasses.                   We use these sources of energy much more than the sources that give off less pollution.  Petroleum, one of the sources of energy, is used a lot.  It is used for transportation, making electricity, and making many other things.  Although this source of energy gives off a lot of pollution, it is used for 38% of the United States’ energy. Some other examples of using energy and polluting the air are: Turning on a light Watching T.V. Listening to a stereo Washing or drying clothes Using a hair dryer Riding in a car Heating a meal in the microwave Using an air conditioner Playing a video game Using a dish washer When you do these things, you are causing more greenhouse gasses to be sent into the air.  Greenhouse gasses are sent into the air because creating the electricity you use to do these things causes pollution.  If you think of how many times a day you do these things, it’s a lot.  You even have to add in how many other people do these things!  That turns out to be a lot of pollutants going into the air a day because of people like us using electricity. The least amount of electricity you use, the better. When we throw our garbage away, the garbage goes to landfills.  Landfills are those big hills that you go by on an expressway that stink.  They are full of garbage.  The garbage is then sometimes burned.  This sends an enormous amount of greenhouse gasses into the air and makes global warming worse.                          Another thing that makes global warming worse is when people cut down trees.  Trees and other plants collect carbon dioxide (CO2), which is a greenhouse gas.Carbon dioxide is the air that our body lets out when we breathe. With fewer trees, it is harder for people to breathe because there is more CO2 in the air, and we don’t breathe CO2, we breathe oxygen.  Plants collect the CO2 that we breathe out, and they give back oxygen that we breathe in.  With less trees and other plants, such as algae, there is less air for us, and more greenhouse gases are sent into the air. This means that it is very important to protect our trees to stop the greenhouse effect, and also so we can breathe and live.                          This gas, CO2, collects light and heat (radiant energy), produced by the sun, and this makes the earth warmer.  The heat and light from the sun is produced in the center of the sun.  (The sun has layers just like the earth.)  The dirty yellow color on outside is the surface.  The light and dark yellow colored area is the convection zone.  The orange colored area is the radiative zone, and the red colored area is the core.  The squiggle lines represent radiant energy.      This layer is called the core.  Just like a core of an apple, it is in the middle.  Here there is a very high temperature, about 27,000,000°F.  This heat escapes out of this layer to the next layer, the radiative zone. This layer is cooler, about 4,500,000°F.   Gradually, the heat and light will pass through the convection zone at a temperature of around 2,000,000°F.  When it gets to the surface, the temperature is about 10,000°F.  Finally, the heat and light is sent into space.  This is called radiant energy (heat and light).  The radiant energy reaches the earth’s atmosphere.  As a result of this process we get light and heat.  When you pollute, you send chemicals into the air that destroy our atmosphere, so more heat and light cannot escape from the earth’s atmosphere. What are people doing to stop global warming?   People are doing many things to try to stop global warming.  One thing people are doing is carpooling.  Carpooling is driving with someone to a place that you are both going to.  This minimizes the amount of greenhouse gases put into the air by a car.Another thing that people are doing is being more careful about leaving things turned on like the television, computer, and the lights.   A lot of people are taking time away from the television, and instead, they are spending more time outdoors.  This helps our planet out a lot.  Now, more people are even riding busses, walking to school, and riding their bikes to lower the amount of greenhouse gases in the air.  Planting trees and recycling also helps.  If you recycle, less trash goes to the dump, and less trash gets burned.  As a result, there are fewer greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. Watch what you buy.  Many things, such as hairspray and deodorant, now are made to have less of an impact on the atmosphere.  Less greenhouse gasses will rise into the air, and global warming will slow down.   What is the government doing to stop global warming? The government is doing many things to help stop global warming. The government made a law called The Clean Air Act so there is less air pollution.  Global warming is making people get very bad illnesses that could make them disabled, very sick, and sometimes even die.  The Clean Air Act is making many companies change their products to decrease these problems.  Part of the law says that you may not put a certain amount of pollutants in the air.  Hairspray and some other products, like foam cups, had this problem.  Making and using these products let out too much volatile organic compounds (VOC’s), ozone-destroying chemicals (chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s), and related chemicals (such as CO2) into the air.  Now, almost all of these products have a label on them telling people what this product can do to the environment and many people.  By 2015 all products listed on the Clean Air Act will have this label on them: WARNING: contains or manufactured with (the chemical would go here.  For example chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s), a substance which harms public health and the environment by destroying ozone in the upper atmosphere.   Almost all of the other chemicals that could be harmful will have this label on them hopefully by this time (2015) as well. The Clean Air Act has also made car companies change some of the things inside of the cars.  Cars pollute a lot.  While cars make more than half of the world’s smog (visible pollution in the air), many things that cars need to move and heat up make even more pollution.  Some things that are inside of cars, buses, trucks, and motorcycles, like gasoline, pollute the air when the fuel is burned.  It comes out as a chemical and when mixed in the air, forms smog.  Smog is a kind of pollution that you see in the form of a cloud.  If you have ever been to California you can see a lot of smog in some places.  Sometimes the smog gets so bad that you cannot see at all!  Smog forms when car exhaust, pollution from homes, and pollution from factories mixes in the air and has a chemical reaction.  The sun’s heat and light add to the reaction. Cars, buses, and trucks are also responsible for over 50% of dangerous chemicals let into the air.  Some of these chemicals can cause cancer, birth defects, trouble breathing, brain and nerve damage, lung injures, and burning eyes.  Some of the pollutants are so harmful that they can even cause death. What are some of the other dangerous chemicals? Some other chemicals that cause air pollution and are bad for the environment and people are: Ozone- Ozone is produced when other pollution chemicals combine.  It is the basic element of smog.  It causes many different kinds of health issues dealing with the lungs.  It can damage plants and limit sight.  It can also cause a lot of property damage. VOC’s (volatile organic compounds, smog formers)- VOC’s are let into the air when fuel is burned. This chemical can cause cancer.  It can also harm plants. NOx (nitrogen dioxide)- This chemical forms smog.  It is also formed by burning sources of energy, like gas, coal, and oil, and by cars.  This chemical causes problems in the respiratory system (including the lungs).  It causes acid rain, and it can damage trees.  This chemical can eat away buildings and statues. CO (carbon monoxide)- The source of this chemical is burning sources of energy.  It causes blood vessel problems and respiratory failures. PM-10 (particulate matter)- The source of this chemical is plowing and burning down fields.  It can cause death and lung damage.  It can make it hard for people to breathe.  The smoke, soot, ash, and dust formed by this chemical can make many cities dirty. Sulfur Dioxide- This chemical is produced by making paper and metals.  This chemical can cause permanent lung damage.  It can cause acid rain which kills trees and damages building and statues. Lead- This chemical is in paint, leaded gasoline, smelters, and in lead storage batteries.  It can cause many brain and nerve damages and digestive problems. Kid can help stop global warming, too!! Although adults do many things to help stop global warming, kids can do just as much.  Kids can’t do hard things like making a law, but we can do easier things like not watching as much TV.  You can listen to your parents when they say, turn off your lights or go play outside.  Listening to them and actually trying to help can help you, your environment, and the world.

Love Quotesss

Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. 

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.



Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. 

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. 


Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. 

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.

Love is not singular except in syllable. 

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. 

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.


The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. 

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?


Take away love and our earth is a tomb. 

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. 

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.


It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. 


You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. 

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. 


No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation.  And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

Love me and the world is mine.


It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely.  Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.


The love game is never called off on account of darkness.

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. 

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. 


You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. 

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.


The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

An old man in love is like a flower in winter.


Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?



Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.


Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. 

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. 


Love is the poetry of the senses.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. 

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters.  It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. 


Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. 


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. 


We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. 

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.


True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. 

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. 

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. 


Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. 


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. 

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. 

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.


A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

Love is not consolation.  It is light. 

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked. 


Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

Loving is never a waste of time.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. 

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. 


Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. 

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. 

Love is what you've been through with somebody.


Love is being stupid together.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. 

Open your heart and take us in,
Love - love and me.



On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love.  Always love.  For something, from someone.  It's never done.  Never.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love.  I'd stepped in it a few times. 

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.

I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.


What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. 

I learned the real meaning of love.  Love is absolute loyalty.  People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades.  You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them.  And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.



The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. 


At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Love Quotess

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. 

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. 


Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. 

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.  To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.  To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. 

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. 


Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. 

When love is not madness, it is not love. 

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. 


Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.


Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! 

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. 

Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. 

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. 

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. 


The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. 


Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.


Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. 


Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.



The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.

Love one another and you will be happy.  It's as simple and as difficult as that. 

Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is unto itself a higher law. 


Who, being loved, is poor? 

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. 


Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. 

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. 

Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds.


Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. 

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

We loved with a love that was more than love. 

If I love you, what business is it of yours? 

The hardest-learned lesson:  that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. 


Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. 

My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.



We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. 


The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. 


Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. 


When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. 

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. 

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.



Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. 

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.


Passion makes the world go round.  Love just makes it a safer place.


Love is no respecter of age or practicality
Neither morality: unabashed
She enters where she will
Unheeding that her immortal fires
Burn up human hearts...


Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. 

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. 

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. 

Love burns across the infinitude.

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.