Task 7

As most people know Global Warming is one of the issues that we faced these days .However many factors are helping to raise the Global Warming. One of these factors I discover while I was searching for appropriate topic for may task 7 in 174 and this factor is forest fires. Sciences said that one third of the carbon dioxide is coming from burning forest (Jacobson). And also Data gathered by aircraft flying over northern Alaska and the Arctic Ocean in April 2008 hint that much of the haze that blankets the region in spring, long thought to be associated with industrial emissions, in fact results from forest fires and agricultural burning in Asia (Perkins). In this essay is I will talk about the reasons, effects of forests fires in the country which produce it and some solutions of the problem.

There are many reasons why people start to burn forest. The first reason is that some countries are depending on tourism. For example if city like Dubai had a forest and they need space, it is easy to them to burn it than cut trees one by one because they need space to build a mall for example. The Second reason is that burning forest help to make the soil better for building buildings. For example burning destroys the dead leaves and rotting wood (http://islands.unep.ch/), so there is no need to worries if the are some woods or roots that could cancel the project you want to build.

There are many effects of forest fires. The first effect is the impact on the economy of the country that burns the forest. For example if a country burns a forest and that forest was near an airport they must shut the airport because the pilot can’t land the plane if there are some smokes from the forest, so they well lose money for at least three days. Another effect is on health. In the Physiological impacts caused by the smoke from forest fires include heart and lung conditions, carcinogenesis, premature death, suppressed immunity, and physical and cognitive impairments (www.forestencyclopedia.net).

Although there are reasons and effects there are also solutions. The first solution is to put a specific laws that to band the burn forest if not necessary. For example countries like Tasmanian are burning forest to make a space so they can build new houses, so this is a necessary reason to burn forests. Another solution is to brings together local knowledge, policy perspectives and science to help tropical forest margin stakeholders understand the tradeoffs between conservation and development goals (www.worldagroforestry.org).


In conclusion, we must dig harder and harder in the forest burning issue before the situation get worse and I hope that some day we would not have to burn any forest because the forest is like a protection for us from the pollution that we faced.

Bibliography:
Human Health Impacts of Fire." 14 Nov. 2008. 27 Mar. 2009 .
Jacobson, Mark Z. "Forest Burning Is A Net Contributor To Global Warming, Scientist Says." 24 Aug. 2004. 26 May 2009 .

Perkins, Sid. "Arctic haze: From Russia." Science News 14 Mar. 2009: 13.

SMALL ISLAND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT." .

"Solutions for a burning issue." Transformitons Quarterly Dec. 2006.

Task 6

As all people know our planet is suffering from one problem which is pollution. Pollutions cause by human and they are trying to fix the damage that they cause by building cities that don’t produce CO2. These cities called Cool Cities. In this essay I am talk about some of the problems of these cities.

The first reason is that the cool cities cost a lot because they are using the solar energy and this kind of energy is much higher than the fuel power (Gregor). And the cost problem would be impossible for the poor countries .For example the cost of Masdar which is build in Dubai is around 22 billion(Cheung).

The second reason is that the population is getting bigger in every second. For example take around 50 thousand people as I saw in YouTube, so as you can see the word population will keep increasing and the cool cities can’t hold all the people around the world, so it is a useless case to build cool cities.

The third reason it is nearly impossible to change the human habit .For example if a man used to drive his car to go to work and when he return he open his AC and went to sleep. How could this man live in cool city where there is no car and no AC, so that why I said it is nearly impossible to change the human habit or routines.

In my opinion living in cool cities is impossible because I can’t change my life style, but maybe some day that I must live in it, so at that time every thing will be possible.

Bibliography:
Cheung, Philip. "Masdar’s green dream is not for all." Home Page - The National Newspaper. 25 Apr. 2008. 05 May 2009 http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080424/BUSINESS/919451504.

Gregor, Katherine. "Cool City: Solar Subtleties." The Austin Chronicle. 6 Mar. 2009. 6 May 2009 http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A751802.

Task 5

The Carbon Footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide and green houses which is produce by the human activists that they do every day. In this essay I am going to compare between my results and four of my friends results which we got them by using two website(http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/) and (http://www.heroesoftheuae.ae/).


First I am going to write about my results. The first web sits they asked many questions and they were very organizing that why I got 1.98 (WWF). I think the first web sit gave me much better and more accurate results than the second one may be because there were many questions. The second web site was much easier to understand and I got 0.8 (Heroes).There is a huge difference between the two web sits my average was 1.39. It seems that I am one of the rescuers of the earth.

Now I am going to compare between my results and my colleges results. There was a huge difference between us. The one which was near to me is Salem Al Hamadi with 2.21. The second one which was near to me is Abdu Azezz Al Mazroie and it got 2.54. One of my friends who surprise me was Ali Al marzoqi which approximately was more than half my result. Ali result was 3.32.

Although many people say sooner or later the pollution will happen ,I say to them despite talking how about to start doing some thing that will help our children to start an unpolluted life and use some of the power that not have an effect on them ,so how about we start now.

Bibliography:
FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR." 2009. 23 Apr. 2009 .
Heroes of the UAE. 20 Apr. 2009 http://www.heroesoftheuae.ae/en/section/what-can-i-do/calculators-1.