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Student Footprints

Students from around the world calculated their class mean and standard deviations for their footprints and posted them on our world map.

Do you see differences across the globe? If so, why do you think those differences exist?

Did you use the calculator to try to reduce your footprint down to the average from a citizen of another country? What changes would you have to make to lower your footprint in this way? Are you going to try and take some of these actions in your daily life?


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Global Warming

sophiamiller

What is global warming, how have we contributed to this disaster, and how does it affect us and wildlife? Global warming is being caused by humans and our way of life. Global warming affects our natural wildlife such as the the plants and animals. In order for us to make any kind of change, we must understand how we are contributing to climate change. 
In the past 150 years our worlds global temperature has increased drastically. Carbon dioxide is a major key factor in global warming and is being released into the atmosphere when humans burn gasoline, natural gas, and coal. We burn or use these substances to provide our population with transportation vehicles and electricity. These changes of global warming include effects on ecosystems such as rainfall, storm activity, and the extinction of plants and animals. In order to stay alive and healthy, plants and animals are migrating to new places. As these plants and animals migrate, they bring disease to other wildlife which can spread into farms and cause the human population to be affected. In some cases, animals may not  be able to migrate; is when animals become extinct. 
Global warming is a big part of our worlds development in the last 150 years. The excess carbon dioxide we send into the atmosphere is slowly bring our earth to a decline in effectiveness. Because of this our wildlife and even us are suffering from the consequences of global warming.                     "Climate Change 101." Home. Web. 29 Sept. 2016.

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