Global Warming Group

posted by globalwarming on Jul 23

We started working on our question monday afternoon, after an interesting introduction by Pfister and Dinan. We were divided into groups, and as a part of the science and enviroment group, we made a list of concerning topics wich we narrowed in to nuclear waste and global warming. But the hardest part was to figure out a good angle to approach the topic, and enough background to the question. And, of course, how to word the question. We spent several hours in the library, wrote down a lot of questions, and tried to work out what question wast the most controversial. During the research, I think most of us learned many things we did not know to begin with. After some discussions and debates, each of the subgroups got to a question. We, in the global warming group, chose to focus on renewable resources, and comparing the U.S. with other countries when it comes to developing and using renewable resources. The only thing left was to write a storyboard and film the question. Me, Line, were to present and ask the question, and we found some pictures that went really well with the informative part of the question. We did the filming at a green spot here at the Wake Forest University, and recorded the text to go with the pictures. We put all the parts together, and it was great, just inside the timeframe of 30 seconds.

You can watch our video here on the blog.

posted by globalwarming on Jul 20

Today we had a digital video teleconference with a state department official from Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. We asked him a lot of different questions, and my question was this: The Kyoto protocol calls for a 7 % reduction in CO2 emissions. The US has not agreed to this because developing countries were not included in the protocol, and the economy would suffer from it. If the US would now implement a reduction in CO2 emissions, how would this affect the US economy?

Drew Nelson did not give us a clear answer on what might happen to the US ecenomy if they did that, but he explained that as of now, the ecnonomy would suffer from it. He also added that there are several, 13, proposals in the congress, concerning how to reduce the CO2 emissions. Right now, they are trying to reach the same level of CO2 emissions as in 1990, by 2020.

posted by globalwarming on Jul 19

The U.S contributes the most to the green house effect, but it is countries like Italy, Australia and Portugal who are in the lead when it comes to developing and using renewable resources, such as tidal power and wave power. Do you think this is right, and if not, what do you think the U.S government plan should be this?
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