Worst Environmental Issue of the Day

If there was ever an environmental issue that was more important then global warming then our world would be close to the end. Global warming is the biggest fear for me and many other people. If the world was to go into a massive heat spell then we could go into another ice age.

You may ask if we are getting warmer then how could we go into an ice age. Well, the jet stream that goes threw all of the oceans that moves warm water to the cooler water. It does this because up north in the arctic it would be way to warm and around the equator it would be way to warm.

If we were to get even warmer then the jet stream would stop and the arctic would start and move south with an instat freeze like the ice age.

I live in Vernon Ct. and already it is getting warmer we were having very cold weather and then all the sudden on Sunday the high is suppose to be 50 in January. It just shows that it is much warmer then it is suppose to be. I watched the weather this morning on NBC and they said soon they will have to change the normal temperatures for this time of year because the last two years has been so warm.

If global warming was to hit then that would be when the government would do something not before. When Dick Cheney was in the white house as the vice president he helped huge oil companies with there drilling laws and other things.

What we should be doing right now is make more fuel efficient cars and more regulations on energy consumption. The government should be doing more to help the environment. 

Nuclear vs. Foreign and Domestic Oil

Domestic and foreign oil is the largest energy source in the world. It is fairly safe to drill and ship but at certain times it can spill and thousands to millions of gallons of oil can rush into open water or land. With nuclear energy it is the least polluting of all energy sources but if something does go wrong then the problem is un reversible.

Foreign oil is considerable safer for the US because if there was ever a spill then it would hurt another country and not ours. In the process of bringing it to the US the tanker could tip or sink like Exxon Valdez. The Exxon Valdez put a little of one million gallons of oil into the Prince William sound in Alaska.

The US also was hit with a horrible oil spill in 2008 when a Bp pumping station in the Gulf of Mexico and sent 11 million gallons of oil into the sound. Bp had to pay over 4 billion in federal fees and 525 million in civil charges.

In the Bp oil spill many news and government officials were kept out of it because Bp ordered the US Coast Guard to not have people go near the water on government beaches. Domestic oil is cheaper and puts Americans to work which is good for the economy. On the other hand we have more risks of oil spills and man made disasters like Bp.

You know how President Bush sent troops into Iraq to fight after 9/11. Well that is not the real reason why we are in Iraq. It is because the US pust protect oil fields. Now while the US was in Iraq we also set up programs to help train Iraque service men. We did this because the US didn't want to be in Iraq forever.

The reason why we know that we are in Iraq for oil is President Bush and Vise President Dick Cheney were having secret high security meetings in the white house 6 months before 9/11 and 2 years before we invaded Iraq. This field of flags in Vernon Ct show how many service men and women died in the Iraq and Afghanistan War. 

The US has 104 nuclear power plants. These are the least pollutant of all of the power sources that the US uses. Now if anything was to go wrong with these nuclear power plants then a 50 mile circle around the plant would be un livable for a thousand years. So if you live in the 50 mile circle you may have a chance of losing your house or your life to radiation poisoning.

If the Millstone nuclear power plant in Connecticut was to have a default and radiation was to pour out then most of Connecticut including Hartford the capital city would be polluted. Over 80% of Rhode Island would be polluted and Fisher and Block Island would be totally gone. Also 60% of Long Island would be polluted.

So you decide either we can send US citizens to be killed in Iraq to save our oil. We could also have oil pumping stations in the US that could miles of land with a simple mistake and cost billions of dollars to clean up. Or we could have a nuclear plant that could go boom any minute and displace millions of people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXpLKAveE5I&feature=related

Fracking vs. Coal

In the United States was are the largest consumer of energy in the world. We use many different energy types such as foreign and domestic oil, coal, natural gas, and nuclear. Only two of these energy sources are contently polluting the land and that is coal and natural gas.

 The process of pumping natural gas from the earth is they have to do this thing called fracking.  What they do is pump these chemicals into the ground and that breaks the veins of natural gas in the earth now they can pump that gas out.

In the process of fraking when they put chemicals into the earth they hit under ground water used for wells in the area. Thousands of people in the area affected because there water source is know poisoned and unusable. Multiple people can even light there water in fire because it has so much natural gas in it. Even some people's wells blow up because there is a spark in the electrical well system.

The way that people mine for coal is they must blow sides of mountains down and even a whole mountain. In the process of doing that they can cause broken up rocks go into rivers and stop the whole river and flood the area. After the miners blow down the mountains they must clean the coal stones to be able to burn it. After they clean it the water is not usable anymore and they must build these huge containment areas. Sometimes they break and all of the black water rushes into near by rivers and will poison them for years to come.


As you can see in this picture was are just throwing away out water so we can power the plant. This water does evaporate and it will come back down as acid rain. This kind of rain is what majorly destroys old stone houses and monuments, metal objects like cars, and roads.

So which power source do you like? I don't like either and if we keep on using these we will never have any fresh water left in the world. So you decide natural gas or coal. Both pollute our water supplies and we will never get those back.

Global Warming, Real or Man Made?

If you were to look over every fact in  the book about global warming it would all show that it is 100% true. In the documentary by Al Gore "An Inconvenient Truth" it shows how people are affecting the earths temperature and atmosphere. It is very descriptive with many backed up facts by high renounced scientist around the world. The documentary showed detailed graphs to help show in detail how we are effecting the world.

 Later after that documentary was made a group of also well renounced scientist came together and made a documentary on how global warming is all human hype and how people just want to make money. This documentary was called "The Great Global Warming Swindle." 

Some of the people was John Christy, Paul Reiter, Richard Lindzen, Paul Driessen, Roy Spencer, Patrick Michael and Fred Singer. All of those men were given millions of dollars from Exxon for what they said in the movie because if people started not using oil then Exxon would be making less money. Another person that really got my attention was the former director of the National Weather Service John Hayes was also on that documentary. 

After reviewing facts from both documentaries it showed that "An Inconvenient Truth" had many more details on the subject on how global warming. In the other documentary many of the scientists just went on and on about the same thing.

After An Inconvenient Truth came out a group of scientist came out with a huge list on how all of the facts were wrong in the documentary and they should be reviewed and taken out of Al Gore's presentation. Many and almost all of the facts that they found was very small and you would only find them with great detail.