Climate change begins at Home.

In the US just the homes of the people produce a 40% of the total carbon emissions in the country every year.

A total of 626 million metric tons of carbon were produced by the homes in the U.S. in 2005 alone.

Based on this analysis of potential emissions weatherazing homes as well as properly maintaining heating and cooling systems could save more than 37 million metric tons of carbon.

People are busy, and when you gasp at your energy bill or at the gas pump you don't know what part of that bill is paying for something you want, like heating, cooling and transportation and what part of it is just waste.

People should be more concerned about this situation I think; the Climate Change should be a very big deal for everyone.

QUESTIONS:

1. What other things could we do to save the planet from a early Global Warming?

2. What do you think the school should do to help prevent Global Warming?

Polar Bear Habitat Proposed for Alaska

POLAR BEARS AND HOW TO STOP THE EXTINTION

The article is about polar bears and the possible extinction of them because of several reasons like melting ice (because of global warming), hunting, commercial activities and tourism. In America there are roughly 3,500 bears.
In the article they also talk about political problems and how that problems affect bears. They want to create a protected area for them in Alaska so they could be away from any danger and stop extinction.
They are planning to do this by June 30, 2010.
I think that making a protected area will be good for bears because then the place were they live will not be contaminated, but still if they are in the protected area they will not be protected from the global warming. I also think they should not take that much time to discus about political things when we don’t have that much time to safe the bears from extinction.

Questions!!

1. Give another idea to take care of the habitat of polar bears.


2. Can you think how can we protect bears from global warming?

Galaxy group most distant ever seen

A cluster of galxies farther then the last record was found 10.2 billion years away. Which is 1 billion years farther then the last one that scientists have found in 2006. It is designated as JKCS041. This discovery was very exciting becuase you are finding someone has already found but an older one and tells more about the galaxies history.

This cluster maybe the farthest one we can see right now because our understaning of the universe is limited unless we have better technology. This cluster right now excisted when the galaxy was 3.5 billion years old. Individual galaxy was found and gamma-ray have been found farther away and is found by the Hubble Space Telescope (estimated about 13.1 billion years)

1)What do you think we can see when we have better technology?

2)If we have better technology and we have found another life form on one of the galaxy would we be friends with them or mortal enemy?

3) How can the Hubble Space Telescope still work even though it was launched in 1990?

Andrew Jean