Personal Introduction

Hi,

My name is Saleh Abdulla; I live in Al-Rahba town which is belong to Abu Dhabi city. I am married I have two children. They are named Omraan and Ahmed. I have 5 brothers. My father works in power state company and my mother is house made.

I began working in Dubal Company in Jebel Ali in Dubai in 2002. I am sponsored by my company to study Chemical Engineering in HCT College. I am looking forward to get higher position in my company. Additionally, I love to learn more and more to benefit my children and friends. In my free time I like to go swimming and playing football.

This blog is about global warming and social issues I hope you enjoy with these articles. I hope you find it interesting.

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Social Issues – Lebanon

Lebanon is one of the oldest countries in the Middle East and has beautiful views. Lebanon was called “the land of milk and honey” in the bible. Paris of the East is the nickname for Beirut. Shakira is the famous singer from Lebanon. There are five countries which are surrounding Lebanon - Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Cyprus and Turkey.

In 1943 the Christians got more power than Muslims in running the country after independence from France. In addition to that after Arab-Israeli war the Muslims refugees’ flooded to Lebanon and these circumstances contributed to increased tensions between Muslims and Christians. In 1975, the tensions reached their peak when a radical Christian group attacked and killed a bus full of Palestinians in downtown Beirut. As a result the revenge killings followed, and violence began to spiral out of control and Syria sent 20000 troops to root out and quash radical Muslims as a result. In 1982, the Israeli army invaded the city with the aim of removing the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).However in 1989, the peace deal occurred between them and an international force entered the country and this contributed to create a new situation which made a better equalized situation between Christians and Muslims with a new Lebanese parliament. There were human and economic costs of that conflict. Between 150000-200000 people died, 300 were wounded and economy was paralyses.

Nowadays, us-style shopping malls have sprouted up across the city, building cranes are every where. Newly built highways carry high-speed traffic and teenage girls on roller blades share the wide walkway with women dressed in black dresses, robe, and scarves and these are good signs of social and economic recovery in Beirut. But currently there are a lot of problems in the country. 300000 young people have left the country and the life is too expensive especially the electricity. Unfortunately the foreigners are investing in Lebanon without care of the poor people.




Bibliography:
"Eye on Lebanon." Global Eye. Spring 2006. Royal Geographic Society. 8 Apr. 2008 .

Introductoin to Global Warming

The carbon dioxide and other gasses help to keep the Earth warm and they are good for living. However, when the humans become selfish and careless of the safety of the environment by burning fuels like coal, gas and oil. As a result the environment suffers the amount of carbon dioxide and temperature has increased rapidly. Accordingly we got exceptional circumstances, the number of hurricanes has increased in last 30 years, the malaria has spread very fast, and the flow of ice from glacier has doubled over the past decade.

In case global warming continues, the scientists expect deaths will double in 25 years, sea levels could rise, the Arctic Ocean could be ice free in summer by 2050, a lot of animals could be extinct, and heat will be more frequent and more intense.

Finally, together only we can change this circumstances by trying to find out a good solution to minimize the heat in the atmosphere. We should advise the people that the health is the wealth and we should follow the safety environment rules to get safe and clean atmosphere.

this link will take you to the web site which is related to global warming subject

http://www.climatehotmap.org/

Global Warming – An Inconvenient Truth

(this video shows part of Al Gore presentation)

Inconvenient Truth is a about global warming which is presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim. Al Gore wants to give scientific information about a climate change, Global warming, and its controversy. Al Gore described the nature that is around him at the beginning. He started his presentation seriously and he put natural tones at the start of the presentation.

Al Gore tried to say the people are effecting the environment badly and they don’t realize it because they don’t want to waste their time or money to solve this problem. Mountain glaciers are melting faster than ever, because the global warming is increasing. Therefore the rivers and springs will evaporate rapidly especially when we come to know that 40% of people on earth get their drinking water from Himalaya Mountains. Al Gore shows us the two graphs of temperature in the Northern Hemisphere and CO2 concentrations in the past 1000 years and he illustrated that the CO2 and temperature are increasing together. This means that the CO2 is the storage of the temperature in earth atmosphere. The consequences of the ocean temperature rising are raising sea levels, glacier retreat, arctic shrinkage, and altered patterns of agriculture are cited as direct consequences. Included extreme weather events by human, an expansion of tropical diseases, changes in the timing seasonal, and drastic economic impact. Some buildings and roads on permafrost will collapsed because of the high temperature. Al Gore explained that sea level would rise up to 20 feet and that would be caused by melting either West Antarctica or Greenland in the future. Al Gore mentioned three factors which to the contribute collision between civilization and the earth. The first of these factors is more population, which means more water supply and food will be needed. Poverty and disease will increase in the countries. The second factor is new technology used for the wrong reasons; for example, weapons. Also a new technology is polluting the natural on the earth. He said that we have to change our lifestyle and we must be more efficient to reduce the CO2 emission. America as a country has done great things when they face an environment issues. One of the Americans achievements is the ozone layer issue.

An Inconvenient Truth - Opinion activity

(this link will take you to my voice opinion)
http://voicethread.com/share/125686/

First before criticizing or agreeing with Al Gore’s documentary film I would like to talk about global warming. The Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth near surface air and oceans since the mid twentieth century and its continuing. This definition is clear nowadays for everybody. However I agree with Al Gore when he said that the people effect the environment but they don’t want to realize that or they say the global warming is a lie. Al Gore impressed me when he talks like a professor and when he shows us the effect of increasing the temperature in the world. He tried to let people understand the disaster which is going to be close to them in future. Al Gore used sophisticated technique and a big screen for the presentation. In addition to that, he supports his ideas with a lot of graphs and illustrations.

I disagree with him when he shows the slide of the ice graph at the beginning of the movie because the numbers on the y-axis are wrong. From this point we can say that the slide is wrong and therefore misleading. Also he is exaggerating when he said a sea-level will rise of up to 20 feet which would be caused by melting of ice in either West Antarctica or Greenland’s "in the near future". But if Greenland ice melted it would release this amount of water after a long time not in the near future.

Overall I react positively with Al-Gore documentary film but still there were some points which were inaccurate. Al Gore tried to say that the Global Warming is a big issue now days. He gave scientific information about climate change and global warming and this was a great job from this man.

Carbon Footprints

Carbon Footprints is the a mount of carbon dioxide emitted due to your daily activities from washing a load of laundry to driving a car load of kids to school. I measured my carbon footprint by using these web sites:
http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ http://www.myfootprint.org/
They help me by asking me a lot of questions like which kind of food I am eating and weather I am eating the meat every week or every day. Also there were some questions about Traveling if I am using the bus or my own car and how long I travel by my own car every week and every month which means calculations of petrol consumptions accordingly the increasing of carbon dioxide emission in the air from the consumption. Addition to that I was asked by this site about home for example how many adult in my house and which kind of the house I am living in. More over, I was asked about the stuff. For example did I buy any equipment tool or how much did I spend on jewelry in last 12 month. How much did I spend on bath and grooming products in the last 12 month? After finishing that the sites ranked me according to my answers. My footprint was as I am living in 3.78 planets and 9.58 earths, the average is 6.68. MY carbon footprint had been calculated, which was 16.56tonnes per annum. After that I compare the earth equivalent results of my classmates with my result. Ali Al-Hosani his earth equivalent was 6.65, Mansoor Abdullah was 7.05 and Ali Al-Hammadi was 6.08 and the results show that still I am the highest among them. That’s mean the amount of carbon dioxide which is emitted due to my daily activities is high. So to reduce my impact footprint on the environment I should buy more seasonal food, walk instead of using other modes of transport, turn down the air condition in rooms which I am not using and I should avoid over-packaged products.

This link will help you to reduce your carbon footprints:

http://www.metroactive.com/metro/08.15.07/50-ways-to-go-green-0733.html