Please!

STOP GLOBAL WARMING !!

Diana Chagas

Global Warming Film

Marco Franco

Do you know that...?

• The rise of the temperature in 2.5 degrees will makes 50 million people suffer from hunger.

• Scientists think that global temperature will grow almost 4 degrees until the end of this century.

• If temperature increases 3 degrees, 40% of the Amazonia trees will disappear.

• Malaria will spread to the North and it will affect 210 million people.

• Many animals and plants won´t survive to the climate change. A research says that climate changes will kill a third of Earth biodiversity until 2050.

• The rise of temperatures will leave 3 thousand million people without fresh water.

• If the ice sheet of Greenland melts, the sea level will rise 7 metres.

• Every year, 2 thousand square kilometres of land become to desert duo to rain stress.

• The total of carbon dioxide in atmosphere is 750 billion tons.

• Polar calotte will disappear in 100 years.

• Climate changes can cause environmental refugees and wars.
  

Diana Chagas

What Can We Do?

Little changes can do a big difference. In this text there are some of the ways that can help fighting the climate changes.

->We shouldn’t leave the TV, the computer and the stereo system in the “standby” mode.
->We should use energy efficient bulbs and turn off the lights when we don’t need it.
->We mustn’t let the mobile phone’s porter connected to the socket after we had charged the battery. If we do it, 95% of energy will be wasted.
->We should defrost fridges and freezers regularly to keep them running efficiently.
->We mustn’t open the fridge unnecessarily.
->When we want a tea or a coffee, we should only heat the quantity of water that we need, instead of filling totally the kettle.
->We should save water having a shower instead of having a bath.
->We should use public transports or walk.
->We should only print documents when we really need and use the both sides of a sheet of paper.
->We must learn and we should respect the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

We must reduce our ecological footprint!
We have the world in our own hands!

Inês Estrelinha

Ecological Footprint

Do you want to know the size of your ecological footprint?

Go to: http://www.earthday.net/footprint/flash.html


DON'T WASTE TIME!

Don't Give Up!

IF WE DON'T STOP GLOBAL WARMING, NATURE WILL!

Diana Chagas
Inês Estrelinha

Katrina Pets

It’s horrible to think about all the people who were threatened or caught by Katrina but they weren’t the only ones. Animals also suffered a lot...

A few days before Katrina people were taken by policemen and firemen to shelters. They had to leave their animals at home: the evacuation plan didn’t include pets. Some people were forced to leave their home because they didn’t want to go away without their pets. Imagine how the animals suffered when Katrina passed: all the noise and confusion… They stayed all alone without food and water during weeks.

After the hurricane a great number of teams reunited to find and rescue these animals. They saved around four thousand pets that were, obviously, very weak. Some of them were taken back to their families and others were taken to shelters in New York.

More than one hundred thousand animals disappeared or died in Katrina. It’s a terrible huge number… In consequence of all the pain and death caused by the hurricane Katrina, the suggestion of pets being included in evacuation plans was approved.





"Saving one pet won't save the world...but how the world will change for that one pet" [Katrina Dogs Rescue]


Diana Chagas

Hurricane Katrina

Katrina formed on 23 August, 2005 and dissipated on 31 August, 2005.

The areas affected were: Cuba, Bahamas, South Florida, Louisiana, Mississipi and Alabama.

The hurricane reached category 5.The storm was responsible for 81 billion dollars of demage. The highest winds were 280km/h.

New Orleans (Louisiana) was the area of biggest incidence of this storm, where 80% of the city and 200 million houses were flooded and there were 1.577 deaths.

Mississipi was the second largest area, where 238 people died, 67 went missing and billions of dollars in demage.

In Florida the storm made billions in demage and 14 deaths.

Deaths by State

State	Deaths
Alabama	2
Florida	14
Georgia	2
Kentucky	1
Louisiana	1.577
Mississippi	238
Ohio	2

Hurricanes rank

Rank	Hurricane	Season	Demage
1	Katrina	2005	$81.2 billion
2	Andrew	1992	$40.7 billion
3	Ike	2008	$27 billion
4	Wilma	2005	$27.7 billion
5	Charley	2004	$16.3 billion

Marco Franco