Global warming potential

The film Toxic Soup by Rory Owen Delaney speaks to how everyday Americans fight to keep their blood, water and air safe from pollution. This video shows how corporations such as DuPont, Bayer, Ashland oil and Global contributed to polluting their local environments. The first company that the video talks about is DuPont, which is a chemical plant located in West Virginia. DuPont was found to be contaminating water near their plant with C8. The C8 found in the water was known to cause…

Logan Flom Mr. Moon Language/Literature 9 24 November 2015 Everest’s Environmental Exigency Mt. Everest is a colossal landmark, standing at an extraordinary 8,848 meters, or 29,029 feet above sea level. Since the peak of Mt. Everest reaches so far into the sky, it is almost unconceivable to imagine that there is a major complication at the so called “top of the world”. This problem is pollution, and it is getting worse every day. One of the many pollution problems on Mt. Everest is the…

Environmentalist Ed Begely Jr, also a well know actor, said “I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something created by nature we call it progress.” (Begely,1). Deforestation is a global issue that impacts a wide range, including human and animal life ultimately leading to the destruction of a sustainable, diverse ecosystem. Agriculture, the leading cause of deforestation is a major issue in some parts of the world, including…

Earth day and environmentalism of the poor both created institutions to promote their respective values and objectives. For example, Adam Rome explains in his presentation The Genius of Earth Day, “ Out of Earth Day comes national lobbying organization, one of them directly tied to earth day… many had been ad hoc groups that stayed in business” (Around 11:30 mins). The fact that earth day was followed by a “decade of environmental legislation” (Rome, Around 11:00 mins), shows these…

In Florida panthers are endangered. There is about 100 wild Florida panthers. These panthers are not being killed due to natural causes, it’s due to humans destroying their habitats and our killing. If these panthers go extinct, it will have an irreversible effect on the entire panther species. The fact that Florida Panthers have been extinct since 1973 is stunning. Panthers help us in many ways! Panthers regulate our food chain. If they didn’t regulate our food chain, it would unbalance the…

Due to the fact that we live in this day and age, it seems barbaric to still shovel the snow during winter, especially when you have an amazing tool like the snow blower that can ease your effort and shorten the time necessary for dealing with the white mountains that build up around your house. Unfortunately, there are people who make mistakes when they choose the snow blower they should use on their property, which can lead to many unpleasant problems. To avoid this happening to you, read the…

There are two ways the earth rotates. It rotates around the sun and spins. When the earth orbits around the sun and gives us our year. Seasons are different times in the year when the earth gets hot on one side and cold on the other. I am going to talk about how the seasons are created and why they occur at different times in the year. At different times in the earths orbit it is a different distance away from the sun. When the earth is closest to the sun it is called the perihelion. When…

Is recycling worth while? Recycling can help prevent global warming and save plants and animals. Recycling can make the world a better place. First off there is global warming otherwise speaking the increase of the worlds temperature it was been a problem for many years and stopping it can help protect the future. Recycling can help with stopping global warming because global warming is cause by greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases are in pollution and recycling plants produce less pollution…

American citizens vote for a president of America every four years. The citizens may choose if they want to be a Republican or Democrat. After a candidate won the election in November, he/she doesn’t go in until January. Some presidents do a better job at governing than others. President Reagan was elected as the 40th President of the United States in 1981 (“Ronald Reagan”). According to the biography “Ronald Reagan,” he served two terms or eight years as president. Reagan would change the…

Fracking is the process of extracting gas from below the earth’s surface using water, sand, and chemical additives. Fracking allows companies to extract thousands of gallons of oil per well from once deemed unusable shale. However, only recently have people been made more environmentally conscious and are beginning to question whether fracking can harm the environment. With little studies proving the safety or hazardness of fracking and its byproducts, regulations should be put in place that…