I almost ran out of ideas

Hey, everyone of my few readers

So I'm still out of ideas and I'm really not sure what other original ideas there are on global warming or climate change. But I did watch a movie on global warming in science class like six or seven days ago and while it was pretty boring at the time, I think I'm going to talk about it for this blog post because it's still related. The movie is The Inconvenient Truth with the former Vice-President of the United States of America, Al Gore.

So Al Gore is a politician and an environmentalist, and for years he's been presenting slide shows trying to spread awareness about global warming. If you want to watch it here is a link to watch it for free.

So, in this movie Al Gore describes how serious global warming is and I have to say it's pretty scary. So, as far as we've ever recorded in our world, the carbon level in our atmosphere has never went higher than 300 particles per million. Never, ever for over 100 000 years have we gone above than 300.
 Well in the last 60 years we have doubled that number. And it doesn't show any sign of stopping. In fact, it's going to keep going higher and faster because we aren't stopping global warming.

Now a lot of you are probably wondering "What does carbon in the air have to do with global warming. And who cares, I don't. Let's go get some pizza instead" Well children, there's actually a very good reason why you should put down that pizza (it'll make you fat anyway!) and it's that the carbon in the air is actually a huge problem. Now I've tried to explain the relation between carbon in the air and global warming in an earlier post but I don't think I did a very good job at it, so I found this video from the movie which explains it pretty clearly.

So it may be a little hard to understand but the simplest way to explain it is this. Normally the sun rays (the little red dude on fire) comes to the earth heats it up a little bit, then most of it leaves so it doesn't get too hot. But then carbon and the other greenhouse gases come along (the green gas guys) trap it in the atmosphere so it can't get out and so more of the suns rays stay in the atmosphere longer which heats up the world more.

So the movie talks about this and so many other things about how serious global warming is and how we can help. It's actually convinced me to start cutting back on some of the things I do that cause global warming. I'm starting to do my part to help the world and you should too.

If you want to see the whole movie here it is.

The Inconvenient Truth

Till next time,
Matt

Bibliography:
The inconvenient truth movie