EARTH DAY - APRIL 22

[madam]

Guys, it's Earth Day today!

It's our individual responsibility to help save our planet. Here are some helpful tips on how we can solve our problem on global warming :

1. Go to www.climatecrisis.net
2. Buy energy efficient appliances
3. Recycle
4. Use light rail and other mass transit
5. Switch to renewable sources of enery
6. Vote for leaders who pledge to solve this crisis
7. Write to Congress, if they don;t listen, RUN for congress
8. Plant trees. Lots of trees.
9. Reduce our dependence on foreign oil
10. Help farmers grow alcohol fuels
11. Raise fuel economy standards ; require lower emissions from automobiles
12. If you beileve in prayer , pray that people will find strength to change

If you have time, please watch "An Inconvenient Truth", it's showing at HBO. This is a dowowentary film by former Vice Pres. Al Gore of the USA. I've seen it already on DVD and it's an eye-opener. Here's the schedule :
 
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 1:00 PM
Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 1:00 AM
Friday, April 25, 2008 - 7:00 AM and 11:00 PM
Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 7:00 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 3:00 AM and 5:00 PM
Monday, April 28, 2008 - 5:00 AM
 
Happy viewing !

[daimengrui]

Happy Earth Day !

[PROLINKer]

Nanood ako kagabi sa HBO tungkol sa Melting Ice. Nakakatakot no, almost 33% ng land mass natin mawawala oras na nag melt ang isang portion ng Antartica at Ice Land.

[daimengrui]

Nanood ako kagabi sa HBO tungkol sa Melting Ice. Nakakatakot no, almost 33% ng land mass natin mawawala oras na nag melt ang isang portion ng Antartica at Ice Land.

Ano daw mangyayari sa pinas?

[PROLINKer]

Walang pinakitang Pinas e, pero kung ang 50% ng Manhattan ay lulubos malamang ubos ang Pinas. Depende sa elevation ng country.

[oden noble]

since Philippines is formed by Islands...well I guess it was formed through the eruption of the volcanoes. and di naman tayo ganun kataas sa sea level...so yes...lulubog tayo  . we'll be erased in the face of the Earth.

so we have to Do it right now!...recycle! care about the da*m world already.

[Cathzsmile]

I guess we can share some helpful tips here on how to conserve energy, water and etc... with this simple tips marami tayong matutulungan na ibang tao and at the same time we can also save mother earth even in the smallest way hindi ba? Btw, HAPPY EARTH DAY! sana laging earth day para we lagi tayong maging concerned sa kapaligiran natin

[madam]

i received an email weeks ago about a country na naglights out lahat for 1 hour during the evening and they realized na napakalaki ng na-conserve na energy. one time when we were at sm supermarket, ginaya nila ito although hindi naman lahat ng ilaw pinatay. binawasan nila un naka-on since gabi na din namin and hindi na ganun kadami ang shoppers.

[PROLINKer]

Nung Earth Hour nagpatay din ako ng ilaw, tapos sa antok ko di ko na na on ayun pag gising ko basang basa ng pawis yung kama ko hahahahahaha! Di pala ilaw lang pinatay ko buong breaker. Di naman aksi nilinaw na LIGHTS lang e kala ko buong kuryente.

[madam]

ah yeah, it was earth hour 8-9pm ata un. actually we all can do our share kahit simple acts lang like what we do at the office, we switch off the lights during lunch break and we try to minimise the use of our meeting rooms so there's no need for extra lights.

[Cathzsmile]

To bring all this information together, the United Nations formed a group of scientists called the International Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. The IPCC meets every few years to review the latest scientific findings and write a report summarizing all that is known about global warming. Each report represents a consensus, or agreement, among hundreds of leading scientists.

One of the first things scientists learned is that there are several greenhouse gases responsible for warming, and humans emit them in a variety of ways. Most come from the combustion of fossil fuels in cars, factories and electricity production. The gas responsible for the most warming is carbon dioxide, also called CO2. Other contributors include methane released from landfills and agriculture (especially from the digestive systems of grazing animals), nitrous oxide from fertilizers, gases used for refrigeration and industrial processes, and the loss of forests that would otherwise store CO2.

Different greenhouse gases have very different heat-trapping abilities. Some of them can even trap more heat than CO2. A molecule of methane produces more than 20 times the warming of a molecule of CO2. Nitrous oxide is 300 times more powerful than CO2. Other gases, such as chlorofluorocarbons (which have been banned in much of the world because they also degrade the ozone layer), have heat-trapping potential thousands of times greater than CO2. But because their concentrations are much lower than CO2, none of these gases adds as much warmth to the atmosphere as CO2 does.

In order to understand the effects of all the gases together, scientists tend to talk about all greenhouse gases in terms of the equivalent amount of CO2. Since 1990, yearly emissions have gone up by about 6 billion metric tons of "carbon dioxide equivalent" worldwide, more than a 20% increase.

Source: http://science.nationalge...al-warming/gw-causes.html