Save the polar bears!!

Animal Extinction

http://www.globalissues.org/article/177/nature-and-animal-conservation
Soon animals we all know love will become extinct. One example of this would be polar bears becoming extinct because the ice is melting and their homes are dissapearing. If we let this and other things that ruin habitats happen then we will definitely regret it when every animal is gone.

The Next Dinosaur Extinction

Not a Drop to Drink!

Bigger Problem Than Global Warming

NASA has technology to find and track meteors, but what defense do we have to them? Nothing can save us from a deep impact, but possibily Science can do something to solve a crisis like this.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/15/a-problem-that-is-bigger-than-global-warming/

Water Pathogens are a problem!

Earth on fire

We have been hearing about Climate Change our whole life, but do we realize the severity? If we pass the 2 degrees celcius mark, we are headed for distruction. There would be wildfires 8 times the size they are now, much more severe hurricanes, the Artic loosing 30% of its ice, and fresh water availability decline to 20%. We need to stop it now before it stops us. http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/24/opinions/sutter-questions-two-degrees-climate/

Global WARNING

No Meat, No Global Warming?

Global Warming is a huge problem that many people blame on cars, factories, and electric power but it turns out that meat has much more of an impact.  According the article "meat contributes between 14 and 22 percent of the 36 billion tons of "CO2-equivalent" greenhouse gases the world produces every year." If every one in the world ate just a couple less meals with meat each week that would make so much of a difference. And imagine if we stopped eating meat altogether, global warming might not even be that big of a problem. 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-greenhouse-hamburger/

Children are dying!

Bed Bugs Be Back!!

Recently bed bugs have become extremely common all over the world. 99% of exterminators in the U.S. say they have been called to deal with a case of bed bugs! And they are evolving! These tiny bugs are reproducing everywhere!

https://student.societyforscience.org/article/return-bed-bug

World Running out of Food?

According to scientist Julian Cribb the world could run out of food by the year 2050.

Overpopulation:the worlds biggest problem

Corrupt Politicians Scumming up the Water

Massifornia Blog Project- Ephets and Zoe

Global Warming, sooner then we think?

Global Warming is killing us

https://youtu.be/49YQqcpYia8
This is about global warming. We need to solve this problem because, this concerns this entire globe. Any place on the coast could be possibly be flooded. We need to solve this now.

World Problem. Sanitary?

Let's Talk About Po-ver-ty! By Natalie and Celeste

The Deadliest Disease: The Coronary Disease

coral reef explain everything

Coral Reef are Dying, proving dangerous to our race!

Coral reefs all around the world are dying and we need to help protect them! Reefs protect our shores from having worse storms then we already do, they provide food for many fish and people, and they are some of the most beautiful places on the earth.

The Ozone Layer

View Mr. Souza class in a new way!

                   Mr. Souza Classroom 3D

                   
                            This is a 3D photo taken by Me i will be taking a better one soon



                                                       




                                                                     

Views: Mr. Souza by Elias Playz

Obesity in America

Vasili, Benjamin and Cooper click this

Obesity in America

Marin is looking north for water because of the drought.

Marin is having the worst drought in history! There has not been enough rain for Marin to live of of.. Marin is looking north for water.
http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20140125/marin-looks-north-for-needed-water-supplies-as-drought-continues
Article

Ebola gone then back again!

Diabetes it's getting BIGGER

Fish be dying (not good) Emma & Alexis

How u can save the bees

Hannah, Anya, and Sonja Fracking

Mega Drought that could possibly occur in 2050(Nyima and Andrew)

Millennial's struggle for healthy foods by: Olivia and Allie

Government Garbage! The Current Issue With the U.S. Government feat. Tilman and Alison

New way California is saving water

Milo and I read a very interesting article about how California is saving water by filtering it. Check it out! http://youtu.be/XxTeKcAsqP0

Technology: A blessing and a curse

As technology becomes more and more relevant and accessible to more people, cyber attacks become a larger threat. The way our government has been handling these attacks have become extremely   ineffective, we need to put our heads together and create a plan to stop these attacks. 

-Ava and Lola

Cancer Problem in America

Man-Made Earthquakes

Cancer Catastrophe in America!

It's to hot for US!

In this video we talk about the effects of global warming. Our information comes from an article on www.epa.gov!

Let's Stop Obesity by Cat & Jordan

fast food is ending up bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o01EQk0NUg

Stop Keystone Pipeline

By: Olivia and Zoe

New Plan To Save The World

US Glaboal Warming

To watch My Video on Global warming, click on My Video! Or, click This Link to watch My Video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py5vFU3uAMk Here is a video link of a video that explains the problem with oil fracking in the us.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g0F_FyWDUeA Here's the link to the YouTube video Tucker and I made on global warming in the US.

Drought solution

A potential answer to California’s severe water shortages is groundwater banking, which involves creating incentives for municipalities, farmers, and other water users to percolate water down into sub-surface aquifers for later use.Californians approved a $7.54 billion water bond initiative, known as Proposition 1, that earmarks $2.7 billion for water storage projects, including improved groundwater storage and recharge. But widespread groundwater banking in California still faces many legal, economic, and psychological obstacles. The barriers revolve around one core concern: Farmers and municipalities need reassurances that if they conserve water and store some of their allocation, they will be able to reclaim it later

Drought

http://ca.gov/drought/

Global warming

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/

Disappearing bees

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/disappearing-bees-progress-or-frustration-1/

disappearing bees

Bees, for some reason, seem to fascinate us. Perhaps it’s their social structure: the queen, the workers, the drones, producing honey and baby bees and living their short lives in a super-organized way that would be the envy of any business. So when the world learned five years ago that bees in America and Canada were dying in large numbers, and hives were becoming defunct, the agricultural community, beekeepers and the public became alarmed. Hives were deserted, the bees gone, presumably dead, honey production stopped, and the bee industry was crippled. The problem was called Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD, and it threatened California’s very profitable almond industry, which is dependent on bees to pollinate the trees that the nuts grow on. And not just almonds: 130 crops in California alone depend on honey bees.

Let's End World Poverty

You must watch this!

-Gracie and Khadija

Furious Fires

http://www.fire.ca.gov/general/firemaps.php

Because of the drought in our state of California, fires are more and more dangerous due to the dry land. These fires are most common in the southern part of CA which is also where water is most scarce. And most of these fires are caused by careless humans. To fix this problem more people have to cooperate and be more careful about the environment

Twelve years of satellite data help decode climate change

goal is to gauge how the atmosphere responds to changes, and to fully understand the long-term trends, you’d better understand the short-term trends really well,” said Eric Fetzer, a project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 2002, NASA launched the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) aboard its Aqua satellite, designed to make precise measurements of global temperatures, greenhouse gases and clouds. Now that the instrument has amassed 12 years of data, researchers are using its cutting-edge observations to better understand how climate feedbacks will impact warming rates. Water vapor: The hot and cold cycles of El Niño When it comes to global climate, one of the strongest triggers of short-term variability is the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Normally, most of the Earth’s warm water is concentrated in a deep pool in the western Pacific. But every three to five years, El Niño makes its appearance, bringing warm water to the surface and making the tropical Pacific Ocean warmer than average. (Conversely, during La Niña, sea-surface temperatures become colder than normal.) AIRS on Aqua Launched into Earth-orbit on May 4, 2002 aboard NASA's Aqua satellite, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, AIRS, moves climate research and weather prediction into the 21st century. Credit: NASA. Learn more about AIRS. For climate researcher Andrew Dessler, El Niño isn’t just a weather phenomenon to be studied—it’s a rough analogue to the Earth’s long-term warming and cooling cycles. “If I want to understand how water vapor responds to climate change, I need to look at a time when the Earth is cold and a time when the Earth is warm,” said Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University. As a potent greenhouse gas, water vapor plays a key role in global climate: As temperatures rise, water vapor increases, and because water vapor is itself a greenhouse gas, this produces even more warming. This vicious cycle is known as a feedback. By looking at the AIRS water vapor data during both the cold and warm cycles of the ENSO (El Niño and La Niña), Dessler can see how water vapor levels are responding to temperature changes and calculate the strength of the water vapor feedback. “If the globe warmed seven-tenths of a degree during the last El Niño, I can see in the AIRS data how water vapor changed in response to that. This tells me a lot about how water vapor is going to interact with climate change,” he said. Now that AIRS has 12 years of data, Dessler is able to measure water vapor at all altitudes of the lower atmosphere during several El Niño cycles. “Water vapor doubles the amount of warming you get from CO2 alone, so it’s really this very significant effect,” he said. “If you have only three years of data, you really don’t know if what you’re seeing in the atmosphere is representative of the longer-term picture.” Clouds: Using the present to predict the future While water vapor has a powerful effect on the climate system, the role that clouds play in affecting climate change is not well understood. “Models all predict that the water vapor effect doubles the amount of warming, but we’re still pretty uncertain about how clouds amplify warming,” said Hui Su, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Low clouds can shelter the Earth like an umbrella, reflecting solar radiation back to space and producing a net cooling effect. But high clouds can act like a blanket over the planet, triggering a greenhouse (warming) effect. The big conundrum for climate modelers is, how much cloud cover will there be in the future? The answer to that question is directly related to humidity. “More moisture in the atmosphere means more cloud cover,” said Su. “Based on the AIRS data, we know what the current humidity should be, and that should predict the amount of clouds,” said Su. “So, we’re really using current observations to infer the realism of model predictions.”

Global warming

When it comes to global climate, one of the strongest triggers of short-term variability is the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Normally, most of the Earth’s warm water is concentrated in a deep pool in the western Pacific. But every three to five years, El Niño makes its appearance, bringing warm water to the surface and making the tropical Pacific Ocean warmer than average. (Conversely, during La Niña, sea-surface temperatures become colder than normal.)

Launched into Earth-orbit on May 4, 2002 aboard NASA's Aqua satellite, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, AIRS, moves climate research and weather prediction into the 21st century. Credit: NASA. Learn more about AIRS. 

For climate researcher Andrew Dessler, El Niño isn’t just a weather phenomenon to be studied—it’s a rough analogue to the Earth’s long-term warming and cooling cycles. “If I want to understand how water vapor responds to climate change, I need to look at a time when the Earth is cold and a time when the Earth is warm,” said Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University.

As a potent greenhouse gas, water vapor plays a key role in global climate: As temperatures rise, water vapor increases, and because water vapor is itself a greenhouse gas, this produces even more warming. This vicious cycle is known as a feedback. By looking at the AIRS water vapor data during both the cold and warm cycles of the ENSO (El Niño and La Niña), Dessler can see how water vapor levels are responding to temperature changes and calculate the strength of the water vapor feedback.

Water Vapor

“If the globe warmed seven-tenths of a degree during the last El Niño, I can see in the AIRS data how water vapor changed in response to that. This tells me a lot about how water vapor is going to interact with climate change,” he said.

Now that AIRS has 12 years of data, Dessler is able to measure water vapor at all altitudes of the lower atmosphere during several El Niño cycles. “Water vapor doubles the amount of warming you get from CO2 alone, so it’s really this very significant effect,” he said. “If you have only three years of data, you really don’t know if what you’re seeing in the atmosphere is representative of the longer-term picture.”

Clouds: Using the present to predict the future

 While water vapor has a powerful effect on the climate system, the role that clouds play in affecting climate change is not well understood. “Models all predict that the water vapor effect doubles the amount of warming, but we’re still pretty uncertain about how clouds amplify warming,” said Hui Su, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Low clouds can shelter the Earth like an umbrella, reflecting solar radiation back to space and producing a net cooling effect. But high clouds can act like a blanket over the planet, triggering a greenhouse (warming) effect. The big conundrum for climate modelers is, how much cloud cover will there be in the future? The answer to that question is directly related to humidity.

“More moisture in the atmosphere means more cloud cover,” said Su. “Based on the AIRS data, we know what the current humidity should be, and that should predict the amount of clouds,” said Su. “So, we’re really using current observations to infer the realism of model predictions.”

Global warming

Global warming is bad and it is changing the envierment  and melting the polar ice caps