Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Today, we started class by discussing students right to free speech.

Then chelsea did her blog discussion over poland's president who died in a plane going to the world war 2 memorial cerimony.

They'd be told for years that the plane was not fit to fly. the plane crashed and everyone on board died

Then we watched planet in peril once again

80% of greenland is covered in ice and the sun never sets in the spring time

the island is warming and the ice is melting fast

artic temps are warming faster than any other place

if the ice melted oceans would rise 23 feet

8 degrees F is how much the temps are rising

sea levels could raise 3 feet in the next 100 years

  • even if we stop co2 productions the levels will still increase

a new island has emerged because of the retreat of ice

the worlds newest island happened because of the world's warming temperature

some spots the ice has deminished as much as 40%

they call the bathroom a shigroom

searching for polar bears in alaska is as hard as finding a hay colored needle in a hay stack

the polar bear is changing with the changing climate

they are getting smaller

seals are the polar bear's primary source of food

some bears are actually drowning

they are also eating eachother when their source of food gets short

the artic ocean lost 1000 ft of ice

if this keeps happening 2/3 of the polar bears will be gone in 50 years

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