Thursday 25 February 2010

PLANET EARTH PROJECT

What's climate change? Is the change of the weather, that we created.
WHO'S AL GORE? Is a northamerican ecologist and a politcal man. He works on climate change.
WHAT IS HE FAMOUS FOR? He's famous for his theory of the nature.


Answer the questions:



1. Do scientists agree about global warming? Yes, they do agree.
>Scientists who study the climate are still arguing about how fast the earth is warming and how much it will warm, but they do agree that the earth is warming and that it will keep warming if we don’t do anything about it.<


2. What is causing global warming? The burning of fuels.
>Scientists agree that the burning of fossil fuels like oil and coal cause greenhouse gases to escape into the air and that these gases are causing most of the warming. Another cause is deforestation (cutting down trees). Trees soak up carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases, from the air.<


3. What is the difference between "global warming" and "climate change"? Global warming is a temperature increase, and a Climate change are a diferent changes who are suffering of the world .
>"Global warming" refers to the increase of the Earth's average surface temperature, due to a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. "Climate change" is a broader term that refers to long-term changes in climate, including average temperature and precipitation.<


4. What will happen if global warming continues? That the level of the sea will rise, the temperature increase....
>There are already some changes happening because of global warming. Sea level is rising and some animals are already moving to new homes. It’s already too late to stop global warming completely.<

>If the warming gets worse, as scientists expect, there may be some kinds of plants and animals that become extinct (disappear completely) because they can’t move to new homes. There may be more storms and floods. Sea level may rise so much that people have to move away from the coasts. Some areas may become too dry for farming.<

5. What is being done about global warming? Very little is done... I hope that we change. >Global warming is a very difficult problem to fix. People are having a hard time agreeing on what to do about it. For example, everyone agrees that wasting energy is a bad thing to do. But some people think that the federal government should make laws about it, while other people think it should be up to each person or business to decide what to do.<
>Many states and businesses in the United States are not waiting until the federal government decides what to do. They have already started working on the problem.<

6. What can I do about global warming? You can turn off the lights, you don't waste water, you recycling...
>You don’t have to wait until you are grown to do something about global warming. Scientists agree that the burning of fossil fuels is causing global warming. Since these fuels are burned for energy, and everyone uses energy, everyone can help stop global warming just by using less energy.< >Think about the things you do each day that use energy. The lights in your house use electricity. The TV and computer use electricity. The washing machine, dishwasher and dryer all use gas or electricity. Every time you ride in your car, it uses gasoline.<

Trailers:

TRAILER 1:


What's the movie based on? The movie was based in climate change.
What's President Bush's reaction to it?
Is it just a political issue?
Are the book and documentary based on scientific basis? One part yes.
Text:
Stop and think..."You look at that river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. You hear the birds; you hear the tree frogs. In the distance you hear a cow. You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. It’s quiet; it’s peaceful. And all of a sudden, it’s a gear shift inside you. And it’s like taking a deep breath and going, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about this'. ”
>Al Gore in the opening monologue of An Inconvenient Truth<

Some of the sentences you've read or listened to are really striking.
Choose one sentence that you specially liked.

And all of a sudden, it’s a gear shift inside you (i de cop, és un canvi de volocitat a dins teu).


What are Gore's main ideas?"Climate change is a scientific fact and not theory to discuss" and "can discuss the predictions, but not the facts."(El cambio climático es un hecho científico y no una teoría a discutir" y "se pueden discutir las predicciones, pero no los hechos).
What's global warming? Global warming is a temperature increase.
What's causing it? The burning of fuels.

OTHER TRAILERS:




The big questions:


1. IS IT REALLY SO IMPORTANT TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING? YES, IT IS! Because we need the world.
2. DID WE BETRAY THE PLANET OR DID THE PLANET BETRAY US? WE DID BETRAY THE PLANET.
3. WHO'S CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING?We're a cause of the global warming.


Global warming song: