Planet in Peril

Planet in Peril

 

Planet in Peril is a DVD were you go around the world with Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and they explain to you why climate change is happening through-out the world. They are trying to stop climate change. Ether humans are to blame or the world or animals. Which do you think?

 I think that the humans are to blame for what's happening. The reason I think this is that since humans are releasing toxic chemicals into the air. The chemicals prevent the warm air from getting out of the planet's atmosphere. This causes ice and snow to melt because of the rising temperatures.  

Fun Facts:

• The Sun is cooling but slightly over the years, not enough to say that the sun is to blame for this climate change. Over the past few years the Earth has gotten warmer.
• The way the earth moves, the Sun influences the amount of the Sun's energy. Earth's movement can cause climate change, but it would take ten hundreds of thousands of years.
• When Volcanoes erupt, they let out small amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like ashes and dust. Sometimes when Volcanoes erupt, the ashes and dust goes so high up into the atmosphere, it blocks some of the Sun's light from reaching Earth.

Some places like Lake Chad in China, people get ill and die because the water is so toxic. Madagascar is where about 90% of Earth's animal live and many animals are dying. People are trying to take the endangered animals and sell them for money or use them for medicine. Carteret Island is where some people live. The Carteret Island is being sunken by the water since the coral reefs surrounding the island die; storm water can reach the island since the reefs are supposed to stop the water from reaching land. Polar Bears are endangered animals that live in very cold snowy places. In Greenland the ice and snow is melting. More than 1 billion tons of ice/snow melts each year. Since the ice is melting new islands are born. Many different things are happening because of climate change.