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New software to track cities' carbon emissions
Sunday, May 20, 2007

     
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18720296/


I am very sure that everyone has heard of the term, "global warming". I think it has become a phrase so commonly used, that it it has lost its meaning. However, it is a serious issue that has to be solved, as scientists have shown that if it goes on uncontrollably, man will soon face the danger of extinction, just as many other species have. The main reason would be overheating of the globe's temperature, or the more popular case, drowning, where the ice melts and the earth would be completely covered by water. Global warming is the result of the high concentration of greenhouse gases, mainly made up of carbonic particles, with the most common one known as Carbon Dioxide. Sad to say, global warming is a process that is hard to reverse, due to a process called feedback. The snow is white, and it reflects light well. When it starts to melt, it would then expose the colour of earth, brown, which absorbs light. As the brown colour absorbs the light,
it will heat up, causing more snow around to melt, exposing even more earth. This cycle is very difficult to stop, and even impossible to reverse.
However, I think that efforts to stop global warming are not completely wasted. Controlling the amount of carbon emitted by industrial factories is a very good way to control pollution. Companies would then do their best in reducing units of carbon emitted. Emitting more than the quota assigned to them would result in prosecution. I think that in this way, companies would make the best out of each unit of carbon atom, and they would be given grants for researching other ways of improving their processes to ensure the least amount of carbon produced. As such, the least pollution would create the most output.
I feel that to control the climate change, global effort is needed. Individuals, especially teenagers and children might think that they have no authority nor power to create the least change. Yet in truth, they are the very pillars of support for the world in the future, for they would ultimately be the ones leading this world. To get everyone involved in make global-saving efforts, we must first start with ourselves, and then influence those around us. A Chinese saying goes "一传十，十传百", which literally means one spreads to ten, ten spreads to a hundred. I am very certain that if everyone work together for a ocmmon goal, that is to put a stop to climate change, it is definitely possible.


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