Carbon Footprints

The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) is called Carbon footprint.However anyone can calclate his Carbon Footprints, there are many diffrent webside to calclate it by ansering some categries question fast and easy.

CO2 is the chemical symbol for carbon dioxide so there are many ways to generate Co2 For example: When you drive your car to Dubai the engine burns fuel that gives a certain amount of CO2, depending on its fuel consumption and the driving distance. When you heat your house with oil, electricity, gas or coal this all can generate CO2. Also when you go for shopping to buy products such as food, it also emitted some quantities of CO2.

I measure my carbon foot print at some sites in the internet and almost everyone can calculate their carbon footprint so I calculated my carbon footprint it was 6.38average. Than I compared it to my partner's footprint First Ahmed got 7,9 earths and he was the nearest one to me, Ali got almost 3.3 earths and at last Faisel got 4.57 earths. So Ahmed got the greatest footprint from all my partners. At the countries side, UAE got the highest footprint measurement in the world (Wikipedia).

These carbons footprint can reduce Individuals and they are first minimizing energy use in the home, second travelling by public transport, third using the car less, fourth flying less frequently, fifth buying energy efficient products, also by consuming goods that have used little energy in their production and transport, even minimizing waste by reducing amount of animal products,fule and electricity uses. Also recycling Energy .

Bibliography:

WWF Footprint Calculator. 23 Apr. 2009

http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/.


"What it measures." Ecological Footprint Quiz by
Redefining Progress. 23 Apr. 2009 http://www.myfootprint.org/en/about_the_quiz/what_it_measures/.




"CARBON FOOTPRINTS.

" Http://www.mycarbonfootprint.eu/index.cfm?language=en.

My opinion about the "an inconvenient truth movies"

An inconvenient truth movies which I saw it in the class with my teacher it is very nice and Al Gore makes it interesting and the way he provides his movies was amazing it could impress anyone who see it, that why I like it.

On the other hand there are some people who agree and others who disagrees with the movie. So in this essay, I will give my opinion about an inconvenient truth video .


For example, one of the disagree people said: Going on…You can get a better idea of ‘global warming’ when you quit trying to ‘micro-manage’ the carbon footprint…that is trying to blame it on individuals…the IMPACT of the carbon footprint can be seen every day…try flying above the Ohio & Missippi Rivers and you will see a COAL burning power plant every 20 to 50 miles apart…pumping out CO and CO2 into the atmosphere…of course THAT means you actually have to come out of your pre-conceived tortise shell FIRST! It’s NOT one vehicle that causes the problem…it’s millions of vehicles causing the problem…It was OK when it was just OUR nation doing it…but now CHINA & INDIA want to use the internal combustion engine as well! By the way HI SNORAX! ( Mr.John TEQP)


However, in my opinion, I agree with this movie because the movie talked about all the reasons about the global warming which is a very important thing. However, there is an other person who agrees with me and he said: Gone is the excruciatingly wooden, heavily-made up candidate from the controversial 2000 Presidential election. In his place, the team from An Inconvenient Truth shows you the Gore democrats wish the voting public had seen%u2014a comfortable, enthusiastic(Heather Huntington)

But , this movie is really worth watching and it should be available in educational centers like schools and colleges where people can get educated regarding global warming. Also the movie showed me the rate of global warming increased dramatically with the time, the problem is that they do not know how much such behaviors are harming the environment. I think its every one’s responsibility to spread the knowledge regarding global warming. I do admit Mr. Gore who used politics to serve the science and help serve the environment.

BIBIOGRGHEY
John TEQP. "An Inconvenient Truth." Libertas. 16 July 2006. 16 July 2006 http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/?p=1676.

Huntington, Heather. "An Inconvenient Truth." Rotten Tomatoes. 21 Aug. 2008. 21 Aug. 2008

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/?page=1&critic=columns&sortby=date&name_order=asc&view=#contentReviews>.