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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