Today in Class... More on Climate Change. 12/7/16

Today in class we continued on learning about climate change. We watched a second video about it and it was by Bill Nye (the science guy). His video had more of a visual explanation which actually helped a lot and also gave more information on the effect of climate change. Some of that information includes: 11/ past 14 were recorded as the warmest years on record, the sea levels have risen 6.7 inches, and since 1994, the earth has lost 400,000,000,000 (4x4x4 mi.) tons of ice glaciers each year. We also discussed some solutions that people can do to reduce the pollutants that are hurting our environment. There were the obvious solutions that everyone has heard of which was to recycle/reuse, ride a bike, walk, use public transportation, and turn of electronics. There were some that I was not familiar with which were to eat less meat, and to eat locally grown foods. I was kind of confused with these two but then I started thinking. We should eat less meat so then due to less meat consumption, farmers wont have to breed as many cows, which will lower the rate of cow poop per day, which will then lower the percentage of methane in the air, because methane is 10% of the greenhouse gases in the air. Also, I think they want us to eat locally grown veggies so that we wont have to ship veggies from across the country to anywhere else because those big 18-wheeler trucks burn a lot of gas which produces a lot of pollution.