The Grand Finale of Environmental Science Blog

This will be the last blog assignment for the environmental science course, so I was told to bring forward what are the most important environmental issues of today. I will let you in on my thoughts of the important environmental issue, why they are important (supporting it with data/facts/examples), what we can do about it as a society, what can you can do individually, and what I believe is/are the most interesting thing/things I have learned throughout the semester. Throughout the course, I can say as for planet Earth, we are pretty much destroying our self into a massive extinction. There are no important environmental issues because they are equally horrible for our general planet. If you want in on knowing what are some environmental issues, so they be anything that humans would be doing in our daily life and what products we may buy. Because finals is around the corner I would just use Climate Change as my focus point.

Climate Change: 
In a movie review and a blog assignment, I have learned that Climate Change can be a devastating issue on current Earth.The site Climate Change at the National Academies  stated that Earth average surface air temperature has increased by about 0.8°C (1.4°F) since 1900. There are evidence from thermometers records, tree rings, ice core, melting of ice into ocean, rising of sea levels, and increasing temperature. Average surface temperature on Earth it shows that 1983-2012 was probably the warmest 30 years period in more than 800 years. Green house gases had risen global temperature by about over the 20th century. Studies had shown that CO2 increased by 40% from 1800-2012. Additional activities that humans help make matter worse are agricultural, road construction, and emission of small particles, known as aerosols. Potential climate change can impact areas, species and natural environment. In the future average sea levels will be predicted to rise by 9 to 88cm by 2100, and mainly due to thermal expansion.James Balog from the movie "Chasing Ice" made a great film on Climate Change. He tackled the focus area on ice because it's the foundation of glacial melting. His crew and his self had some eye popping  photographic and films that can't lie to people that Climate Change is warming up. Store Glacier was the biggest calving event to happen and to be filmed. It was the longest film record at 75 minutes, it cabin faces 300 ft - 400 ft tall pieces of ice were shooting up 600 ft and falling. Pretty much imagine the city Manhattan breaking up in front of you. This is a must see film because if your curious about Global Warming.

What The Society Can Do World Wide:
From the SF Gate newspaper site and article called, "Top Ways to Stop Global Warming", showed four great ways to stop global warming. As a society, we must reduce fossil fuel use because it's the main source of burning that increase levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Planting more trees and plants can be a way great way to slow or stop global warming. Plants and tress are amazing because they use carbon dioxide and releases oxygen. Chegg is great site to rent textbooks because they plant new trees when you buy textbooks from them. Notable society methods can be to reduce waste and conserve water.

What An Individual Can Do:
From the website Union Concerned Scientists and article called, "What Can You Do About Global Warming", had a list of individual things a person can do overall. Here is some ways to reduce global warming such as taking personal action reduce the amount of gas you burn (by better usable transportation from not burning fossil fuels), buy efficient appliances that useless electricity (look for Energy Star, awarded by the EPA), and reduce everyday electrical usage. Other noticeable task can be to reduce lawn size, recycle whenever possible, eat locally, produced food, and eat vegetarian meals.

What Caught My Interest In The Course:
This whole 2014 Spring Semester, I had a great experience on learning a lot throughout this course. In the course, I loved everything that I learned and was inspired how great Dr. Tonya Huff have a brilliant mind. She taught the class so well, and surprisingly each week on a Wednesday night was way more fun than I expected from other 3 hours night class that I had in the past. All the blogs that I done were equally exciting to find out all lot of facts, so this made me more of a brighter person in the field of environmental science. This may be from the chemicals that manufacturers put into our daily products, so the government can kill us off. Just being around alone in peace with the nature was pretty cool, knowing the fact that tap water is safer than bottle water, finding out about your ecological footprints and you would need a lot more planets to be sustainable, how you can take action to make your campus way more sustainable, and how plastic never goes away and just biodegrade down into small pieces.