An Inconvenient Truth (Voice Thread)

Wanted: Natural residents

Part1-Summary:
New Western Harbour development in Malmo, Sweden is made to provide needs to people. The well organized wine racks, kid’s toys and high quality furniture on view through curtainless windows make people feel themselves at home. Not only humans live there. Outside you can see birds, bats and insects. Every roof is covered with sedum and fringed ponds. These developments are made for urban and comfort living. The first phase, containing 1300 new apartments, Bo01, was planned to promote biodiversity alongside with showing new green methods of waste management, sustainable transport and renewable energy.
Developers have to choose ten green features from a list of 35 to incorporate into their designs. As a result, wildlife is getting better in Bo01. In the next 2 phases of the development extra green features will be added. The aim for the new developments is to change people’s thinking about buying new houses not for their good looks but to buy them because of their green credentials. 25% of the food is organic and hopefully in the future it will be more.

Part2-Main Idea:
1-The new western harbor is in Malmo, Sweden.
2-There is a school that will teach about keeping the world an environmentally friendly place.
3-Developers have to choose ten green features from a list of 35 to incorporate into their designs.

Part3-Opinion:
1-I think it is expensive to make a big environmentally friendly city.
2-I think the place is nice and beautiful to live.
3-It is only the start to make the world a better place.

References: Fry, Carolyn.Wanted: natural Residents."The Guardian 2 Jan. 2008. 5 Jan.2009

Task 3: An Inconvenient Truth

This film is presented by Al Gore who challenged George W. Bush to be president of the USA but didn’t win. Former vice president Al Gore tells his opinion about global warming hoping that all people understand the problem and do something before it is too late. What made Al Gore change his way of looking to the world was the death of his older sister who passed away from lung cancer, and his son's car accident. Gore explains the impacts of global warming and the most dangerous is ice melting. If the ice in Antarctica and Greenland melts the result will be a rise in the world’s sea level by about 20 feet. 100 million people or more will be homeless if the sea level rose. Approximately 40 % of the people get their drinking water from rivers caused by melting ice and after about 50 years these people will have a big problem because of the drought and water evaporation. The cause of the ice melting is the increase of temperature caused from the increased level of CO2 level; if the CO2 level goes up the temperature goes up and the CO2 level nowadays is more than average and after half a century it will be way more. Finally Gore asked all people to work together and solve the problem before it gets bigger and bigger.

Task 2: Global Warming

The earth is warming up. The temperatures are rising. We can’t blame anybody because it’s our mistake. Many agreed that climate change is one of the greatest threats facing the earth. The challenge for each of us and for our leaders is to pursue effective responses that are as fair as possible to all people and nations. Evidence indicates that humans now have a big impact on climate. However, it is hard to identify humans as the only cause of a particular weather event or local climate change. Most of the observed temperature increases over the last 40 years have been due to the increase in the atmosphere of greenhouse gas concentrations like carbon dioxide, water vapor, ozone and methane. Greenhouse gases are those gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. The largest contributing source of greenhouse gas is the burning of fossil fuels leading to the emission of carbon dioxide.

Task 1: About myself

Hi all,
My name is Ahmed Abdulla AlMazroui. I am 18 years old. I am turning 19 on the 27th of June. I was born in Abu Dhabi and I also live there. I studied in many different schools. Currently I study at ADMC. I play basketball in my free time. I like watching new movies in the cinema every weekend. In summer I like traveling a lot. I have traveled to many different countries such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Bulgaria, Norway, Thailand and England. I’d like to visit many countries like South Africa, The United States and many more. In the future I want to have my own company and start my own family.

In our blog project, Mr. Hedley is encouraging us to think critically and analytically about the issues of climate change and global warming. I think it sounds boring to talk about global warming but it is an important thing to write and discuss about.