6.+Thinking+Deeper

What are some significant key facts that you learnt about as a result of your research? Alex- I have learnt that Antarctica has melted before and if it melts again then there will be more earthquakes, because Antarctica is very heavy and if all the pressure is released that will trigger earthquakes, and because the suns heating up the ocean. Here are some facts that I lernt: There are spots in Greenland and Antarctica which are actually gaining ice because of increases in annual snowfall. But, on average, they are melting faster. In the last two decades, temperatures have been rising in the arctic at a rate 20 times faster than the warming that occured over the previous century, and the thickness of the ice sheet has decreased by about half (down from 15 feet in the 1980s to 8 feet in 2003).
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Dayna- I have learn that the reason why polar bears are dying is because when the ice melts the polar bears have to leave and sometimes when they can't find ice again they get tired and drown because that get weak from not resting. I have also learnt how the sun makes Antarctica melt. what happens is that the ice was like a mirror to the sun and reflects it off but nas the ice melts, the water beside it absobs the heat making the water warm and making the ice melt much quicker. some of the reasons to ice melting are... ===== What are the problems/ consequence for our world if nothing is done about your chosen issue? Alex- Then see levels will rise which would mean that millions of people would have to move house and people might be left homeless, and there will be worse storms because the sun is heating up the ocean, and the world will get hotter because nothing is reflecting the suns heat rays back and there will be worse droughts because the earth will be getting warmer. there will also be more severe fires and it would be harder to put them out, because the earth would be hot, so the fires would spread out even faster and more often. **Dayna- There are a lot of concequences that are going to happen if we don't do something about this and here are a few...**   How is the sustainability of our planet being affected by this issue? Alex and dayna- There has been worse droughts and more storms and the world has gotten warmer and the forest fires have been getting worse and the ozone hole has been getting bigger, which would make Antarctica melt even faster. there has also been more droughts, so the government will have to keep paying money to clean up all of the damage. Also if Antarctica did happen to melt and some countries are going to need to be evacuated this would be a big job for the government to orgonize a helicopter for all the people. And i'd say if antarctica did melt for a few years the world would be too panicked to do anything and it would be caos everywhere. || YELLOW HAT What is currently being done to address your issue?  Alex- We have been making cars that run on electric instead of cars that run on fossil fuel, and we are now making more and more eco friendly things and we are now starting to use solar power and wind power instead of electricity generators. We are also trying to save more forests and plant more tree and we are recycling more. But we can't do much other than all of the above because we still have alot that we need to understand about global warming, and scientists are trying to understand as much as they can. What are your group's feelings about this issue? **Dayna- I feel very sad that not everyone is trying hard and doing their part for our planet. Even the slightest thing could help such as changing your light bulbs to environmentally friendly ones even that will make a huge difference. Even recycling would. Also a part of me would be angry and irritated because the only people we will be able to blame are ourselves and what we are doing is not right and some of us are going that extra mile to help but we've all got to pitch in to make things work.** What are some things your group could do to address your issue in our community? **Dayna-**
 * =====cutting down our forests =====
 * =====transport =====
 * =====pollution =====
 * =====factories smoke =====
 * =====cows farting  ===== || BLACK HAT
 * **Since Antarctica is made of fresh water, if Antacrtica melts the saltiness of the water will have changed which will affect the sea creatures as they may not be able to survive in fresh water.**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Also the water levels will rise by about 6 meters although there are lots of different opions in the hight of the rise. The lower flatter islands will lose quite a lot of their land as it floods. This will effect people more than anything as people will become homeless and starve. Some tinier countries may be flooded all together.**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Also i think that if Antarctica does melt, the world would be in caos for a good couple of years which wouldn't help the problem.**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**The earth would get much warmer as there will be nothing to reflect the suns heat beams which will leave us with worse droughts and bush fires would happen much more and would be a huge problem to put them out because the nentire earth would be hotter.**
 * Dayna- In the supermarkets they have made reusable material bags instead of plastic bags because they take millions of years to evaporate and they have also made plastic bags $00.10 so it will prevent more people from using them. They have also made new cars that run on electricity instead of petrol and they are much better for the enviroment. Also they have a lot of scientists doing as much as they can to find out more to stop global warming. ** ||
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 * <span style="color: #0e6fb9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alex- I also feel sad and annoyed that not everyone is doing their bit to help save our planet, because if we all recycled then we wouldn't have all of the problems that we have today, and if we all used eco friendly things and we all walked or biked to places then that will help stop green house gases. Even eating less meat would help bacause an estimated 18% of greenhouse gases are caused by livestock. ** || GREEN HAT
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">P **ut posters up in police stations, shop windows etc.**

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** Alex- We could: **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Write a persuasive letter to the government about what we could do to change this situation.**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Say a speech at a local get together with lots of people.**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Get donations to make an ad for tv or put an advertisement on the radio and inform them of these problems.**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Give out pamflits informing people. You could give them out your local food town etc.**
 * ** Make brochures and put them into peoples letterboxes **
 * ** Make a colouring in competition with lots of facts about global warming **
 * ** Make a website with lots of information and ask if we can put it in the school paper **

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #00ff00;">What things should the government do to ensure that this issue is addressed? <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Dayna-** <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;">* <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**They should make plastic bags illegal to sell and only sell the reusable material ones.** || BLUE HAT Write down your plan for your SO WHAT?! stage as a result of what you have learnt from your inquiry so far. How will you address your chosen issue? What type of thinking do you need to use to do this and explain why and how? ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**They should also right now well theres still time stop making fossil fuel running cars and only sell electric ones after all the others are sold out.**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Put a fine out that anyone who is seen cutting down a young healthy tree and not planting one at the same time should be fined.**
 * <span style="color: #0e6fb9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alex- The government should: **
 * Make as many eco friendly things as we can instead of having things that aren't bio-degradable or things that aren't eco-friendly
 * Make companies use less packaging in their products so that there would be less rubbish
 * Advertise how bad global warming is and how we can stop it, and that would also make people more aware of global warming.