The topic of this paper is Sea turtles endangered by Global warming. It argues that global warming has a bad effect on the environment and threatens some species in the world. Especially sea turtles, which is the oldest species alive in the world so we need to find solutions to protect this species. There are three ways to do this argument. The first is that we need to find solutions to decrease global warming. The second is that we need to decrease the pollution due to human. Finally, protect the sea turtle from humans and predators.
http://pecdroit.blogspot.com/2007/12/sea-turtles-threatened-with-extinction.html
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Monday, December 3, 2007
Sea Turtles threatened with extinction (research paper)
I read in an article that a lot of species are endangered because of global warming, and more specifically the Sea turtle, which is the oldest species known in the world (Velaquez-Manoff 2007); it lived during the dinosaurs. Now the change of the climate threatens these species, and if we don’t do something in a hurry, this species will disappear. The increasing temperature (more than 2 degrees these last years) has an impact directly on the turtle’s eggs (Velaquez-Manoff 2007, Brahic 2007). The problem is that more females than males are born; that means the future will be difficult for reproduction. According to WWF (2007), it’s not only the future population which is in peril, because there is also habitat loss and degradation, pollution, disease because of human and marine pollution, and natural predators. As Bhattacharya (2007) said, we need to do something and we can already cut emissions of greenhouse gases, employ new energy efficient technology and use strategies to sequester carbon dioxide from atmosphere. These examples will decrease the effect of global warming, and that is good for the sea turtle.
In Bhattacharya’s article, she said that global warming is the change of climate, this is due to all the different activities due to human which increased pollution. Different causes are the origin of this change of climate, such as the increased pollution due to cars and factories, and too strong emission of gases and of different toxic products. These
increased the pollution in the air but also the water like sea where some waste is thrown by the factories. All of these have an impact directly or indirectly on the habitat and the life of the sea turtle, threatening them with extinction and different diseases which have been observed in them.
First, to save the sea turtle we need to start with global warming and to find a solution to decrease it. And the most important is carbon dioxide, which is in big part responsible for global warming. So we need to use strategies to sequester and to decrease CO2, to cut emission of greenhouse gases to protect ozone, and to find new technology and source of energy for our vehicles and factories to decrease all the different emission of gases and toxic products to decrease pollution on the air and on the sea. That is something that government needs to care about and use money to find and to try solutions to save our planet. It’s not only the problem of our planet, it’s also for the sea turtle because if we solve the problem of global warming, all of these solutions will affect our planet and save the sea turtle. The oldest species in the world can stay alive for a lot of years, if we do what we must do to solve this problem of global warming. This is because of global warming is the origin of all these threats on the health of humanity and of extinction for some species.
Second, if we want to decrease pollution due to human, it’s easy; we need to get all the population to participate and to teach them to care about pollution, because it’s their future which is in degradation. As for human activities and factories, we need to put in place laws to ban and to stop flow of pollutants into the sea, or to bury them in a different place, because it’s not a solution to do that, we just displace the problem. And displacing pollutants affects sea turtles and their environment. All these pollutions due to human affect global warming, and when global warming increase, the threats increase too and sea turtles become more endangered. And for the air, we need to decrease emissions of pollution due to factories and cars. So we should use our cars less and more transportation like bus or train which are electric so no pollution. Otherwise for the cars we need to look for or focus our search on the hybrid energy, we started it but it’s not enough. Petrol energy price has increased so finding a new energy with less pollution will be good for people, for the planet and also for species like sea turtle. And this can reduce global warming too. Now for the factories find news source of energy and technology to protect atmosphere and environment. Using other sources or technology is possible but for that we need to use more money to search and to advance in our technology. We need to find other energy sources because one day maybe there is not more energy that we use today, and it will be too late to find solutions. So we need to work and to progress in our research for the energy and the technology.
Third, we should protect the sea turtle from human and predators. To begin we need to save some place for sea turtle without human activities, so stop building buildings and roads too close to the beach, because these increase the temperature near the beach by all the emission of gases due to cars and all the activities due to humans. All of these affect the birth of sea turtle; to have equal births of male and female, sea turtles need a specific temperature during the nesting on the beach. If it’s too hot, like in this time, there are only females which are born and that threatens sea turtle with extinction, because no male means no reproduction. So we need to do something for that. We should stop building or we should find a project to push the turtle to migrate to the North, where the temperature is colder and better for the birth of sea turtles. And when we have found these places, at the beginning some scientists need to be here during the birth of the young turtle to protect them from predators, like human predators or animals, like birds which eat the sea turtle which try to go to the sea. I think, it’s important to do that to save turtle and for the restocking of these species. When the species are not anymore in threatened with extinction, we only need to protect and save a place for them, and the cycle of the life can be restarted.
But some people who don’t really care about endangered species or the future of our planet and global warming, can say that it’s a cycle of nature, species disappear and we can’t go against nature, like dinosaurs. And global warming is not an effect of human; they don’t really believe in global warming; for them it’s a cycle like before during the ice age, and now temperature and climate change because it’s something normal it’s the cycle of the earth. It’s not human activities which did that it must happen again like before, we can’t do something to prevent this. Some scientists believe in this theory like global warming is a lie and humans are not a cause of this change of climate. For some of them the only fact is that the planet follow a cycle and we can do everything, nothing will change this cycle. So if sea turtle is threatened with extinction it’s because we don’t need them for the future. And some of scientists said that our pollution is not the origin of global warming, natural pollution is the cause, or that we can try to reduce our pollution but there is always natural pollution. We could stop volcanos or the change of climate. So the pollution is natural, and that affects global warming which is a natural process of our planet, like the ice age many years before, now is the heat age. For the predator, we could protect a species because it’s the oldest in the planet, if we prevent birds from eating the young sea turtle, maybe we threaten these species of birds, by preventing them from feeding. We can’t intervene in the process of the life. Species die and are replaced by others species, it’s the cycle of the life and the evolution of the world. Maybe this species will disappear but others appear and replace this species and can be stronger than this one and can survive with these living conditions.
In conclusion, sea turtles are endangered because of global warming and this is an effect of human activities, so to save this species we need to protect our planet from the pollution, like this we can decrease global warming with new technology and source of energy, we can find a solution to decreasing pollution due to human activities and this has an effect on global warming and sea turtles, and we can protect sea turtle from human and predator. We are the key of the solution, as humans, we are at the origin so we need to solve it, and we can do something to protect and save this species and this will have not only an impact on the sea turtle but on global warming and our future life.
References
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, January 07). Global warming threatens millions of species. New Scientist. Retrieved October 16, 2007 from:http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true
Brahic, C. (2007, February 21). Male turtle populations crashing in the heat. NewScientist Environment. Retrieved October 29, 2007 from:http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1227
Holtcamp, W. (2007) Surf’s up for these sea turtles. Defenders of Wildlife. Retrieved November 1, 2007 from:http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/defenders_magazine/winter_2007/surfs_up_for_these_sea_turtles.php
University of Exeter (2007, February 22). Scientists warn of climate change risk to marine turtle. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 1, 2007 from:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070220003809.htm
Velasquez-Manoff, M. (2007, June 21). Climate turns up heat on sea turtles The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 23, 2007 from:http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0621/p25s03-sten.htm
WWF (World Wildlife Fund). (2007, February 16). Under threat before they even hatch World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved November 1, 2007 from:http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species/about_species/species_factsheets/marine_turtles/marine_turtles_threats/index.cfm
In Bhattacharya’s article, she said that global warming is the change of climate, this is due to all the different activities due to human which increased pollution. Different causes are the origin of this change of climate, such as the increased pollution due to cars and factories, and too strong emission of gases and of different toxic products. These
increased the pollution in the air but also the water like sea where some waste is thrown by the factories. All of these have an impact directly or indirectly on the habitat and the life of the sea turtle, threatening them with extinction and different diseases which have been observed in them.
First, to save the sea turtle we need to start with global warming and to find a solution to decrease it. And the most important is carbon dioxide, which is in big part responsible for global warming. So we need to use strategies to sequester and to decrease CO2, to cut emission of greenhouse gases to protect ozone, and to find new technology and source of energy for our vehicles and factories to decrease all the different emission of gases and toxic products to decrease pollution on the air and on the sea. That is something that government needs to care about and use money to find and to try solutions to save our planet. It’s not only the problem of our planet, it’s also for the sea turtle because if we solve the problem of global warming, all of these solutions will affect our planet and save the sea turtle. The oldest species in the world can stay alive for a lot of years, if we do what we must do to solve this problem of global warming. This is because of global warming is the origin of all these threats on the health of humanity and of extinction for some species.
Second, if we want to decrease pollution due to human, it’s easy; we need to get all the population to participate and to teach them to care about pollution, because it’s their future which is in degradation. As for human activities and factories, we need to put in place laws to ban and to stop flow of pollutants into the sea, or to bury them in a different place, because it’s not a solution to do that, we just displace the problem. And displacing pollutants affects sea turtles and their environment. All these pollutions due to human affect global warming, and when global warming increase, the threats increase too and sea turtles become more endangered. And for the air, we need to decrease emissions of pollution due to factories and cars. So we should use our cars less and more transportation like bus or train which are electric so no pollution. Otherwise for the cars we need to look for or focus our search on the hybrid energy, we started it but it’s not enough. Petrol energy price has increased so finding a new energy with less pollution will be good for people, for the planet and also for species like sea turtle. And this can reduce global warming too. Now for the factories find news source of energy and technology to protect atmosphere and environment. Using other sources or technology is possible but for that we need to use more money to search and to advance in our technology. We need to find other energy sources because one day maybe there is not more energy that we use today, and it will be too late to find solutions. So we need to work and to progress in our research for the energy and the technology.
Third, we should protect the sea turtle from human and predators. To begin we need to save some place for sea turtle without human activities, so stop building buildings and roads too close to the beach, because these increase the temperature near the beach by all the emission of gases due to cars and all the activities due to humans. All of these affect the birth of sea turtle; to have equal births of male and female, sea turtles need a specific temperature during the nesting on the beach. If it’s too hot, like in this time, there are only females which are born and that threatens sea turtle with extinction, because no male means no reproduction. So we need to do something for that. We should stop building or we should find a project to push the turtle to migrate to the North, where the temperature is colder and better for the birth of sea turtles. And when we have found these places, at the beginning some scientists need to be here during the birth of the young turtle to protect them from predators, like human predators or animals, like birds which eat the sea turtle which try to go to the sea. I think, it’s important to do that to save turtle and for the restocking of these species. When the species are not anymore in threatened with extinction, we only need to protect and save a place for them, and the cycle of the life can be restarted.
But some people who don’t really care about endangered species or the future of our planet and global warming, can say that it’s a cycle of nature, species disappear and we can’t go against nature, like dinosaurs. And global warming is not an effect of human; they don’t really believe in global warming; for them it’s a cycle like before during the ice age, and now temperature and climate change because it’s something normal it’s the cycle of the earth. It’s not human activities which did that it must happen again like before, we can’t do something to prevent this. Some scientists believe in this theory like global warming is a lie and humans are not a cause of this change of climate. For some of them the only fact is that the planet follow a cycle and we can do everything, nothing will change this cycle. So if sea turtle is threatened with extinction it’s because we don’t need them for the future. And some of scientists said that our pollution is not the origin of global warming, natural pollution is the cause, or that we can try to reduce our pollution but there is always natural pollution. We could stop volcanos or the change of climate. So the pollution is natural, and that affects global warming which is a natural process of our planet, like the ice age many years before, now is the heat age. For the predator, we could protect a species because it’s the oldest in the planet, if we prevent birds from eating the young sea turtle, maybe we threaten these species of birds, by preventing them from feeding. We can’t intervene in the process of the life. Species die and are replaced by others species, it’s the cycle of the life and the evolution of the world. Maybe this species will disappear but others appear and replace this species and can be stronger than this one and can survive with these living conditions.
In conclusion, sea turtles are endangered because of global warming and this is an effect of human activities, so to save this species we need to protect our planet from the pollution, like this we can decrease global warming with new technology and source of energy, we can find a solution to decreasing pollution due to human activities and this has an effect on global warming and sea turtles, and we can protect sea turtle from human and predator. We are the key of the solution, as humans, we are at the origin so we need to solve it, and we can do something to protect and save this species and this will have not only an impact on the sea turtle but on global warming and our future life.
References
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, January 07). Global warming threatens millions of species. New Scientist. Retrieved October 16, 2007 from:http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true
Brahic, C. (2007, February 21). Male turtle populations crashing in the heat. NewScientist Environment. Retrieved October 29, 2007 from:http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1227
Holtcamp, W. (2007) Surf’s up for these sea turtles. Defenders of Wildlife. Retrieved November 1, 2007 from:http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/defenders_magazine/winter_2007/surfs_up_for_these_sea_turtles.php
University of Exeter (2007, February 22). Scientists warn of climate change risk to marine turtle. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 1, 2007 from:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070220003809.htm
Velasquez-Manoff, M. (2007, June 21). Climate turns up heat on sea turtles The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 23, 2007 from:http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0621/p25s03-sten.htm
WWF (World Wildlife Fund). (2007, February 16). Under threat before they even hatch World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved November 1, 2007 from:http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species/about_species/species_factsheets/marine_turtles/marine_turtles_threats/index.cfm
Chat and Text messaging (fluency exercise 7)
For me, I use both. It’s a fast and easy manner to communicate. With chat, I can speak with my family and my friends in France by msn messenger. Text messaging, it’s something I can use when I want to tell or ask something to someone faster than with chat, because it’s with a phone, and everybody has a phone.
I know that in France when we chat, there are a lot of expressions or words which are changed into new words or just a letter, so I think it’s the same with English chat. I start to chat in English with some of my friends who are in the SIU swim team. I think chat makes it easier to meet people or to exchange documents like for SIU students. Text messaging, it’s more useful when we are already friends, because we need to have the phone number to send text messaging.
I don’t know if I will need to use chat or text messaging in the future, probably with my work colleague if we need to exchange some information chat and text messaging are good. But I think, I will use it more just for friends and for fun in general. In business, it’s easier to speak directly face to face or by mail, to explain all the criteria for a contract for example.
I know that in France when we chat, there are a lot of expressions or words which are changed into new words or just a letter, so I think it’s the same with English chat. I start to chat in English with some of my friends who are in the SIU swim team. I think chat makes it easier to meet people or to exchange documents like for SIU students. Text messaging, it’s more useful when we are already friends, because we need to have the phone number to send text messaging.
I don’t know if I will need to use chat or text messaging in the future, probably with my work colleague if we need to exchange some information chat and text messaging are good. But I think, I will use it more just for friends and for fun in general. In business, it’s easier to speak directly face to face or by mail, to explain all the criteria for a contract for example.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wal-Mart (Synthesis Ex)
Wal-Mart, the biggest success in the business in the USA, is the top seller of groceries, according to USA TODAY (2003). There is already a Wal-Mart in Carbondale and there is a new project to build another one in Murphysboro area. the question is, is it good or not to build another Wal-Mart in a small town?
First, Wal-Mart is very useful and popular, as said Locke (2004) we can find everything we need with a cheap price, but with the same quality of service that we can find in other big shop. This is good for a family who has a poor income. Wal-Mart is open almost 24 hours on 24 hours and with the internet access, so we have access when we need. The shop also give lot of work for people who wanted it. According to Hoening (2004, par.16), "In 2005, Wal-Mart created 125,000 U.S jobs, and is continuously adding thousands each month". So another Wal-Mart will increase jobs for people who need it, and more access to buy everything we need with two shops.
Second, according to Jacobs (2005), people protest against a new Wal-Mart because they are afraid that this can destroy small businesses and also the quality of life for some citizens, much noise with the delivery. Also Wal-Mart offers a lot of jobs, but not enough insurance; only 48% of their employees are covered, according to UFCWIU (2005). The job which is given by Wal-Mart doesn't give enough income for people who work for them. The annual wages is less than the poverty line for a family of three.
To conclude, Wal-Mart has a lot of advantages for people's lives and building another Wal-Mart can increase this quality. They offer lot of work that is good for people who are looking for work. But two Wal-Marts can destroy small businesses, and also the quality of life for some citizens. All these jobs that they offer have not enough income and they can't cover all the people who work for them. In my opinion, to build another Wal-Mart can have some advantages but for me, there are more disadvantages than advantges. Carbondale is not a big town, so one shop like this is enough.
References:
Hoenig, J. (2004, February). Welcome Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4561
Jacobs, N. (2005, April). Local opposition to future Wal-Mart Supercenter in Murphysboro. Daily Egyptian. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from
http://newshound.de.siu.edu/spring05/stories/storyReader$858
Locke, E. (2004, February). Three Cheers for Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3534
USA Today (2004, January). Wal-Mart's influence grows. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-01-28-walmartnation_x.htm
First, Wal-Mart is very useful and popular, as said Locke (2004) we can find everything we need with a cheap price, but with the same quality of service that we can find in other big shop. This is good for a family who has a poor income. Wal-Mart is open almost 24 hours on 24 hours and with the internet access, so we have access when we need. The shop also give lot of work for people who wanted it. According to Hoening (2004, par.16), "In 2005, Wal-Mart created 125,000 U.S jobs, and is continuously adding thousands each month". So another Wal-Mart will increase jobs for people who need it, and more access to buy everything we need with two shops.
Second, according to Jacobs (2005), people protest against a new Wal-Mart because they are afraid that this can destroy small businesses and also the quality of life for some citizens, much noise with the delivery. Also Wal-Mart offers a lot of jobs, but not enough insurance; only 48% of their employees are covered, according to UFCWIU (2005). The job which is given by Wal-Mart doesn't give enough income for people who work for them. The annual wages is less than the poverty line for a family of three.
To conclude, Wal-Mart has a lot of advantages for people's lives and building another Wal-Mart can increase this quality. They offer lot of work that is good for people who are looking for work. But two Wal-Marts can destroy small businesses, and also the quality of life for some citizens. All these jobs that they offer have not enough income and they can't cover all the people who work for them. In my opinion, to build another Wal-Mart can have some advantages but for me, there are more disadvantages than advantges. Carbondale is not a big town, so one shop like this is enough.
References:
Hoenig, J. (2004, February). Welcome Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4561
Jacobs, N. (2005, April). Local opposition to future Wal-Mart Supercenter in Murphysboro. Daily Egyptian. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from
http://newshound.de.siu.edu/spring05/stories/storyReader$858
Locke, E. (2004, February). Three Cheers for Wal-Mart. Capitalism Magazine. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3534
USA Today (2004, January). Wal-Mart's influence grows. Retrieved on November 29, 2007, from
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-01-28-walmartnation_x.htm
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Vacations (fluency exercise 6)
My favorite vacation activity is when I am on the beach in the region called “Landes” in the South West of France. I like to go to the beach because with my friends, we can do different sports on the beach, like beach soccer and beach volley. We can also play in the water with the ball and we can also surf and do body board. It’s very funny and we have some good sensations.
If I can be wherever I want, I would like to be on the beach because I like to go there; it’s a place where I have a lot of good souvenirs and I had a very good time with my friends. I also like sports and water so on the beach I have both. I am a swimmer so water is like a drug for me and also a sport. It’s like I need to do some sport activities to feel good and when I am on the sea it’s so good to do body board with just a board take the vague so good sensations.
If I can be wherever I want, I would like to be on the beach because I like to go there; it’s a place where I have a lot of good souvenirs and I had a very good time with my friends. I also like sports and water so on the beach I have both. I am a swimmer so water is like a drug for me and also a sport. It’s like I need to do some sport activities to feel good and when I am on the sea it’s so good to do body board with just a board take the vague so good sensations.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Sea Turtles threatened with extinction (Argument Essay)
I read in an article that a lot of species are endangered because of global warming and more specifically the Sea turtle, which is the oldest species known in the world (Velaquez-Manoff 2007); it lived during the dinosaurs. Now the change of the climate threatens these species, and if we don’t do something in a hurry, this species will disappear. The increasing temperature (more than 2 degrees these last years) has an impact directly on the turtle’s eggs (Velaquez-Manoff 2007, Brahic 2007). The problem is that more females than males are born; that means the future will be difficult for reproduction. According to WWF (2007), it’s not only the future population which is in peril, because there is also habitat loss and degradation, pollution, disease because of human and marine pollution, and natural predators. As Bhattacharya (2007) said, we need to do something and we can already cut emissions of greenhouse gases, employ new energy efficient technology and use strategies to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. These examples will decrease the effect of global warming, and that is good for the sea turtle.
In Bhattacharya’s article, she said that global warming is the change of climate, this is due to all the different activities due to human which increased pollution. Different causes are the origin of this change of climate, such as the increased pollution due to cars and factories, too strong emission of gases and of different toxic products. These increased the pollution in the air but also the water like sea where some waste is thrown by the factories. All of these have an impact directly or indirectly on the habitat and the life of the sea turtle, threatening them with extinction and different diseases which have been observed in them.
First, to save the sea turtle we need to start with global warming and to find a solution to decrease it. And the most important is carbon dioxide, which is in big part responsible for global warming. So we need to use strategies to sequester and to decrease CO2, to cut emission of greenhouse gases to protect ozone, and to find new technology and source of energy for our vehicles and factories to decrease all the different emission of gases and toxic products to decrease pollution on the air and on the sea. That is something that government needs to care about and use money to find and to try solutions to save our planet.
Second, if we want to decrease pollution due to human, it’s easy; we need to get all the population to participate and to teach them to care about pollution, because it’s their future which is in degradation. As for human activities and factories, we need to put in place laws to ban and to stop the flow of pollutants into the sea, or to bury them in different place, because it’s not a solution to do that, we just displace the problem. And displacing pollutants affects sea turtles and their environment. And for the air, we need to decrease emissions of pollution due to factories and cars. So we should use our car less and use transportation like bus or train, which are electric so no pollution, more. And for the factories, we should find new sources of energy and technology to protect the atmosphere and environment.
Third, we should protect the sea turtle from human and predator. To begin we need to save some place for sea turtle without human activities, so stop building buildings and roads too close to the beach, because these increase the temperature near the beach by all the emission of gases due to cars and all the activities due to humans. We should find a project to push the turtle to migrate to the North, where the temperature is colder and better for the birth of sea turtles. And when we have found these places, at the beginning some scientists need to be here during the birth of the young turtle to protect them from predators, like human predators or animals. I think it’s important to do that to save the turtle and for the restocking of these species.
But some people who don’t really care about endangered species or the future of our planet and global warming, can say that it’s a cycle of natural species disappearing, and we can’t go against the nature, like dinosaurs. And global warming is not an effect of humans; they don’t really believe in global warming. For them it’s a cycle like before, during the ice age, and now temperature and climate change because it’s something normal, it’s the cycle of the earth. It’s not human activities which did that; it must happen again like before, and we can’t do something to prevent this.
In conclusion, sea turtles are endangered because of global warming and this is an effect of human activities, so to save this species we need to protect our planet from pollution; in this way we can decrease global warming with new technology and sources of energy, we can find solutions to decrease pollution due to human activities, and this will have an effect on global warming and sea turtles, and we can protect sea turtles from human and predators. We are the key to the solution; we are at the origin so we need to solve it, and we can do something to protect and save this species and this will have not only an impact on the sea turtle but on global warming and our future lives.
References:
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, January 07). Global warming threatens millions of species. New Scientist. Retrieved October 16, 2007
from: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true
Brahic, C. (2007, February 21). Male turtle populations crashing in the heat. NewScientist Environment. Retrieved October 29, 2007
from: http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1227
Holtcamp, W. (2007) Surf’s up for these sea turtles.
Defenders of Wildlife. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/defenders_magazine/winter_2007/surfs_up_for_these_sea_turtles.php
University of Exeter (2007, February 22). Scientists warn of climate change risk to marine turtle. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070220003809.htm
Velasquez-Manoff, M. (2007, June 21). Climate turns up heat on sea turtles. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 23, 2007
from: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0621/p25s03-sten.htm
WWF (World Wildlife Fund). (2007, February 16). Under threat before they even hatch. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species/about_species/species_factsheets/marine_turtles/marine_turtles_threats/index.cfm
In Bhattacharya’s article, she said that global warming is the change of climate, this is due to all the different activities due to human which increased pollution. Different causes are the origin of this change of climate, such as the increased pollution due to cars and factories, too strong emission of gases and of different toxic products. These increased the pollution in the air but also the water like sea where some waste is thrown by the factories. All of these have an impact directly or indirectly on the habitat and the life of the sea turtle, threatening them with extinction and different diseases which have been observed in them.
First, to save the sea turtle we need to start with global warming and to find a solution to decrease it. And the most important is carbon dioxide, which is in big part responsible for global warming. So we need to use strategies to sequester and to decrease CO2, to cut emission of greenhouse gases to protect ozone, and to find new technology and source of energy for our vehicles and factories to decrease all the different emission of gases and toxic products to decrease pollution on the air and on the sea. That is something that government needs to care about and use money to find and to try solutions to save our planet.
Second, if we want to decrease pollution due to human, it’s easy; we need to get all the population to participate and to teach them to care about pollution, because it’s their future which is in degradation. As for human activities and factories, we need to put in place laws to ban and to stop the flow of pollutants into the sea, or to bury them in different place, because it’s not a solution to do that, we just displace the problem. And displacing pollutants affects sea turtles and their environment. And for the air, we need to decrease emissions of pollution due to factories and cars. So we should use our car less and use transportation like bus or train, which are electric so no pollution, more. And for the factories, we should find new sources of energy and technology to protect the atmosphere and environment.
Third, we should protect the sea turtle from human and predator. To begin we need to save some place for sea turtle without human activities, so stop building buildings and roads too close to the beach, because these increase the temperature near the beach by all the emission of gases due to cars and all the activities due to humans. We should find a project to push the turtle to migrate to the North, where the temperature is colder and better for the birth of sea turtles. And when we have found these places, at the beginning some scientists need to be here during the birth of the young turtle to protect them from predators, like human predators or animals. I think it’s important to do that to save the turtle and for the restocking of these species.
But some people who don’t really care about endangered species or the future of our planet and global warming, can say that it’s a cycle of natural species disappearing, and we can’t go against the nature, like dinosaurs. And global warming is not an effect of humans; they don’t really believe in global warming. For them it’s a cycle like before, during the ice age, and now temperature and climate change because it’s something normal, it’s the cycle of the earth. It’s not human activities which did that; it must happen again like before, and we can’t do something to prevent this.
In conclusion, sea turtles are endangered because of global warming and this is an effect of human activities, so to save this species we need to protect our planet from pollution; in this way we can decrease global warming with new technology and sources of energy, we can find solutions to decrease pollution due to human activities, and this will have an effect on global warming and sea turtles, and we can protect sea turtles from human and predators. We are the key to the solution; we are at the origin so we need to solve it, and we can do something to protect and save this species and this will have not only an impact on the sea turtle but on global warming and our future lives.
References:
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, January 07). Global warming threatens millions of species. New Scientist. Retrieved October 16, 2007
from: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true
Brahic, C. (2007, February 21). Male turtle populations crashing in the heat. NewScientist Environment. Retrieved October 29, 2007
from: http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1227
Holtcamp, W. (2007) Surf’s up for these sea turtles.
Defenders of Wildlife. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/defenders_magazine/winter_2007/surfs_up_for_these_sea_turtles.php
University of Exeter (2007, February 22). Scientists warn of climate change risk to marine turtle. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070220003809.htm
Velasquez-Manoff, M. (2007, June 21). Climate turns up heat on sea turtles. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 23, 2007
from: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0621/p25s03-sten.htm
WWF (World Wildlife Fund). (2007, February 16). Under threat before they even hatch. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved November 1, 2007
from:http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species/about_species/species_factsheets/marine_turtles/marine_turtles_threats/index.cfm
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Vacations (fluency exercise 5)
The best place to take a vacation, for me, is on the South West of France, in the region named “Landes” and the city’s name is “Hossegor; Capbreton” which are two cities glued one to each other; it’s near the beach and there is a big forest which is beautiful to ride, to run or just to walk through. For the teenager like me, it’s kind of fun because there is the beach where we can surf and the beach is big enough to do some activities like beach soccer, beach volley, land everything we want that is fun for the day. For the night, there are some different places where we can eat, drink and dance. It’s also for the younger and the older person, so we can find a lot of activities there, which is why I suggest to go there.
If I have enough money to go wherever I want, I will choose this place in the “Landes’, because I always went to this place for my summer holidays and I passed the best moments of my life with my friends there. So with this money, I will invite all of my friends to come with me and we will rent a big house and pass the best holiday that never past before. I think for the best vacation, we don’t really need money or a specific city where we can go, we just need our friends or family and that is enough for me to pass a great vacation.
If I have enough money to go wherever I want, I will choose this place in the “Landes’, because I always went to this place for my summer holidays and I passed the best moments of my life with my friends there. So with this money, I will invite all of my friends to come with me and we will rent a big house and pass the best holiday that never past before. I think for the best vacation, we don’t really need money or a specific city where we can go, we just need our friends or family and that is enough for me to pass a great vacation.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Environment/Species (fluency exercise 4)
I think that if some species succeed at being saved by people while others do not, it’s because some species are in danger of extinction and if we don’t want to see this species disappear, it’s important to do everything possible to protect them. And when a species has disappeared, we don’t know what will happen afterward, like the sea turtles; if these different species will disappear, knowing that these species lived since the dinosaur, or knowing what is lost from such an ancient and mysterious creature disappearing.
To make them successful, I suppose if my memory is right that they can take one male and one female of the endangered species and they can put them in a zoo to protect them, like the panda which is on the way to disappearance in Central China (I saw a French documentary about that last year). For example, for a long time Chinese fishermen hunted whales; now it is forbidden because it’s in this region of the world that this species is on the way to disappearance. There are a lot of examples like this, in which humans hunted different species in the past and now it forbidden and these species are protected by the World Wildlife Fund for nature.
To make them successful, I suppose if my memory is right that they can take one male and one female of the endangered species and they can put them in a zoo to protect them, like the panda which is on the way to disappearance in Central China (I saw a French documentary about that last year). For example, for a long time Chinese fishermen hunted whales; now it is forbidden because it’s in this region of the world that this species is on the way to disappearance. There are a lot of examples like this, in which humans hunted different species in the past and now it forbidden and these species are protected by the World Wildlife Fund for nature.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Sea Turtles (summary/response 2)
In Brahic’s (2007) article entitled “Male turtle populations crashing in the heat”, she tried to explain that global warming and increasing temperature have a bad effect on the male turtle population. The male turtle can disappear from the beaches of Florida, if the temperature increased 2 degrees, established by a new study.
First, we can see that the population of female turtle will increase more than that of male turtles in Florida, which means that the temperature is more favorable to female eggs (90% female) and also that the males have migrated to North Carolina (58% female) because of the change of climate. And according the researchers, they thought that male turtles would hardly be able to meet female, so this migration is not a solution of the problem, because if female turtles can’t meet male turtles how can the sea turtle survive? One scientist, Brendan Godley, had analysed 26 years of data to see if temperature had an effect on sex ratios of turtles in North Carolina; the result, of this research on computer models and simulations, were striking, said Brahic.
After that, this increase of 2 degree in Florida (Cape Canaveral), would wipe out males in this regions according to the model. And if the same thing happened in North Carolina (Bald Head Island), because of an increase temperature of 5 degrees, researchers think that males travel south from north to reproduce, and this population of males of North Carolina is essential for Cape Canaveral, which is the most important nesting grounds of the US.
Next, there is the problem of the sea on the eastern seaboard, where new roads and houses are built, this expansion of human territory has increases the sea temperature near these new buildings. And the situation is already critical, and it can destroy all the population of turtles; because the temperature will increase 2 degree more because of the population and activity due to the human. This increase can produce a sex ratio that is only female (100%).
Finally, like Godley said, it’s essential to protect sites that produce males of the increasing temperature (change of climate) and of human activity. And it’s important to protect this oldest species, in any way that we can do. It’s not only for this species, but about global warming, because it’s our future which is on game.
Reference:
Brahic, C. (2007, February 21). Male turtle populations crashing in the heat. NewScientist Environment. Retrieved October 29, 2007
from: http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11227
First, we can see that the population of female turtle will increase more than that of male turtles in Florida, which means that the temperature is more favorable to female eggs (90% female) and also that the males have migrated to North Carolina (58% female) because of the change of climate. And according the researchers, they thought that male turtles would hardly be able to meet female, so this migration is not a solution of the problem, because if female turtles can’t meet male turtles how can the sea turtle survive? One scientist, Brendan Godley, had analysed 26 years of data to see if temperature had an effect on sex ratios of turtles in North Carolina; the result, of this research on computer models and simulations, were striking, said Brahic.
After that, this increase of 2 degree in Florida (Cape Canaveral), would wipe out males in this regions according to the model. And if the same thing happened in North Carolina (Bald Head Island), because of an increase temperature of 5 degrees, researchers think that males travel south from north to reproduce, and this population of males of North Carolina is essential for Cape Canaveral, which is the most important nesting grounds of the US.
Next, there is the problem of the sea on the eastern seaboard, where new roads and houses are built, this expansion of human territory has increases the sea temperature near these new buildings. And the situation is already critical, and it can destroy all the population of turtles; because the temperature will increase 2 degree more because of the population and activity due to the human. This increase can produce a sex ratio that is only female (100%).
Finally, like Godley said, it’s essential to protect sites that produce males of the increasing temperature (change of climate) and of human activity. And it’s important to protect this oldest species, in any way that we can do. It’s not only for this species, but about global warming, because it’s our future which is on game.
Reference:
Brahic, C. (2007, February 21). Male turtle populations crashing in the heat. NewScientist Environment. Retrieved October 29, 2007
from: http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11227
A Fall Holiday (fluency exercise 3)
In France, we have different fall holidays like in November “Toussaint”, February “Winter’s holidays”, and April “Paques”. I will talk about the winter’s holidays. During this holiday people generally go to the mountains to practice skiing. Generally people rent a chalet for a week, and during the week they go to ski and play in the snow.
The older adults and teenagers practice skiing or snowboarding or anything else that gives this sensation. For the younger people and their mothers, they play in the snow, do toboggan and some learn how to ski.
During this holiday, the symbol is more pleasure, relaxation, and forgetting all stress of the life in the city (work, school, etc). In France, we have a lot of speciality foods and it depends where we are, the region in France. Nevertheless, the most popular food during this season is “fondu savoyarde”; it’s a dish with cheese, Savoyard cheese melt, accompanied by potatoes and French pork butcher’s, and we drink wine with this dish.
Everybody likes this holiday in France. Teenagers go there to be together; adults discover the snow with their children. The mountains during this season are very pleasant.
The older adults and teenagers practice skiing or snowboarding or anything else that gives this sensation. For the younger people and their mothers, they play in the snow, do toboggan and some learn how to ski.
During this holiday, the symbol is more pleasure, relaxation, and forgetting all stress of the life in the city (work, school, etc). In France, we have a lot of speciality foods and it depends where we are, the region in France. Nevertheless, the most popular food during this season is “fondu savoyarde”; it’s a dish with cheese, Savoyard cheese melt, accompanied by potatoes and French pork butcher’s, and we drink wine with this dish.
Everybody likes this holiday in France. Teenagers go there to be together; adults discover the snow with their children. The mountains during this season are very pleasant.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sea Turtles (summary/response 1)
In Velasquez-Manoff’s (2007) article entitled “Climate turns up heat on sea turtles”, he tried to explain that global warming and the change of climate have a bad effect on the turtle’s eggs. If it’s too hot, only females are born and the species could disappear. Out of seven species of sea turtles, six are endangered because of this change of climate.
First, this change of climate disturbs scientists, because they thought that if sea turtle’s births are affected, their habitat will be too. And they notice, in a warming world, an increasing of the sandy beaches due to stronger storms; these affect their habitat and make a shift of turtle’s food. So now to survive they need to change their area, to find a new habitat without heat and for their food. Velaquez-Manoff said that “there’s global warming’s most direct effect, more heat,” which means that if turtles affect everything, what they need must survive too, and also the other species that they depend on for food.
Secondly, after all these problems seen before for the adult turtles, now we will see about their births, and all the problems of climate change. In addition eggs of turtles need a specific temperature to produce not only female, which is 29.4 degrees (85 degree F.) to have mostly male, above it's mostly female, and with these change of climate, the temperature increase (2 degree more), that will produce only females. James Spotila said that the production of male before was every five or ten years, and it’s important to have more females than males. But with this increase of temperature, a male-producing year will come only every twenty years; with this the turtle can become extinct. In some beaches like Playa Grande on Costa Rica’s Pacific, it’s too hot for eggs, so they move them to a nursery to produce some males (because 70 or 90 are female) and when the young turtles emerge, they bring them to the beach and protect them from different predators like human or animals.
After that other scientists suggested to change the area of the turtles, and during nesting season to put the female turtles at different areas, different beaches, to disperse their eggs, to increase the chances of some eggs to hatch. But for me, all of these suggestions are impossible because human contact can affect the birth of turtles too. And this demands too much interference of human; I agree with protecting some eggs, and putting a few of them in a nursery, because this has a good effect on the species of sea turtles.
To conclude, we need to do everything possible to protect this species, because we can’t know what will happen if the sea turtles disappear, knowing that this species lived since dinosaurs (200 million years), or know what is lost if such an ancient and mysterious creature disappears as Velaquez-Manoff said. And turtles feed will proliferate, and have a bad effect on the oceans. So global warming is a very bad situation, and we need to do something not only for our future children but for all of humanity; it all depends on us.
Reference
Velaquez-Manoff, M. (2007, June 21). Climate turns up heat on sea turtles. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 23, 2007
from http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0621/p25s03-sten.htm
First, this change of climate disturbs scientists, because they thought that if sea turtle’s births are affected, their habitat will be too. And they notice, in a warming world, an increasing of the sandy beaches due to stronger storms; these affect their habitat and make a shift of turtle’s food. So now to survive they need to change their area, to find a new habitat without heat and for their food. Velaquez-Manoff said that “there’s global warming’s most direct effect, more heat,” which means that if turtles affect everything, what they need must survive too, and also the other species that they depend on for food.
Secondly, after all these problems seen before for the adult turtles, now we will see about their births, and all the problems of climate change. In addition eggs of turtles need a specific temperature to produce not only female, which is 29.4 degrees (85 degree F.) to have mostly male, above it's mostly female, and with these change of climate, the temperature increase (2 degree more), that will produce only females. James Spotila said that the production of male before was every five or ten years, and it’s important to have more females than males. But with this increase of temperature, a male-producing year will come only every twenty years; with this the turtle can become extinct. In some beaches like Playa Grande on Costa Rica’s Pacific, it’s too hot for eggs, so they move them to a nursery to produce some males (because 70 or 90 are female) and when the young turtles emerge, they bring them to the beach and protect them from different predators like human or animals.
After that other scientists suggested to change the area of the turtles, and during nesting season to put the female turtles at different areas, different beaches, to disperse their eggs, to increase the chances of some eggs to hatch. But for me, all of these suggestions are impossible because human contact can affect the birth of turtles too. And this demands too much interference of human; I agree with protecting some eggs, and putting a few of them in a nursery, because this has a good effect on the species of sea turtles.
To conclude, we need to do everything possible to protect this species, because we can’t know what will happen if the sea turtles disappear, knowing that this species lived since dinosaurs (200 million years), or know what is lost if such an ancient and mysterious creature disappears as Velaquez-Manoff said. And turtles feed will proliferate, and have a bad effect on the oceans. So global warming is a very bad situation, and we need to do something not only for our future children but for all of humanity; it all depends on us.
Reference
Velaquez-Manoff, M. (2007, June 21). Climate turns up heat on sea turtles. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 23, 2007
from http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0621/p25s03-sten.htm
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Environment (fluency exercise 2)
In France, the change of climate is a real problem and everybody knows that. During the last four years, the temperature has increased and the seasons have changed too, which means that during the sprint season the temperature is like the temperature of the summer season. Also, we didn't really have a winter season, because the temperature was very hot for this season and we had little snow.
This change of weather had a bad impact on the French economy, and not just during the winter, but also during the summer for the french wine harvest crop was very bad. But it's not only a economic problem; this hot temperature has had bad effect on the old people. Two years ago, a lot of old people died because of this increasing temperature.
So finally, the weather change in France is like other countries and that affects the economy, increases the death rate of the old people, and this change comes from the increased pollution due to cars and factories. So it's important to react and quickly.
This change of weather had a bad impact on the French economy, and not just during the winter, but also during the summer for the french wine harvest crop was very bad. But it's not only a economic problem; this hot temperature has had bad effect on the old people. Two years ago, a lot of old people died because of this increasing temperature.
So finally, the weather change in France is like other countries and that affects the economy, increases the death rate of the old people, and this change comes from the increased pollution due to cars and factories. So it's important to react and quickly.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Environment (fluency exercice 1)
In France, the biggest problem is the pollution produced by car, because of so many people using their cars for themselves to go to their job. This pollution produced by these people created some cancer for young children or other problems of breathing for the oldest people or people working outside, and has started to increase the temperature. So for all these reasons, the new president of France made in place a project to push people to use transportation like bus or trains because they are electric so no pollution is produced.
After that he put at our disposition a bike that we could rent for a few euros a day, a week, or a month or more if we want. All of this he had put in place a few months ago to decrease the pollution in the big cities like Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, etc.
To conclude, all the people in France are happy and agree about this project, which is very appreciated; now we hope that this project will influence other countries, because this problem is not only in France, it's all over the world.
After that he put at our disposition a bike that we could rent for a few euros a day, a week, or a month or more if we want. All of this he had put in place a few months ago to decrease the pollution in the big cities like Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, etc.
To conclude, all the people in France are happy and agree about this project, which is very appreciated; now we hope that this project will influence other countries, because this problem is not only in France, it's all over the world.
Global Warming (Practice Summary/Response)
In Bhattacharya's (2004) article entitled " Global warming threatens millions of species", she tried to explain that global warming will have a bad effect on millions of species. In fact, climate change means that one in four land animals and plants are on the way to extinction by 2050, predicts a major new study. She took her information from two news scientists who were very alarmed about this future extinctions of species, if nothing is done.
First, Chris Thomas explained that if these species move to a new area, where the climate and the temperature didn't really change because of car and factory pollution. This change of area could decrease the extinction by ten per cent, meaning that one million in ten million species can disappear. Thomas and colleagues tried to model the different possible scenarios with the minimun loss of species, but with all this supposition a question always comes back: " where are these same conditions going to be found? ", which means where can we find a new area with the same conditions of life before the global warming.
Next, Stuart Pimm said that these species moved, but the climate also affected their habitation, which means that biodiversity is endangered like species. Then all these species can't change their aera; they don't have this possibility, they are not able to migrate, and if all the species go to a new area, this one can be smaller for all them and can it support fewer species?
Finally, both of these two scientists suggest doing everything possible, to reduce this global warming, and both of them encourage all of the different governments to do something. And they gave some examples like cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, employing new energy efficient technologies and using strategies to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That is possible if everybody does something, and we can do it. The world and its environment are in game
Reference
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, January 07). Global warming threatens millions of species
New Scientist. Retrieved October 16, 2007
from http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true
First, Chris Thomas explained that if these species move to a new area, where the climate and the temperature didn't really change because of car and factory pollution. This change of area could decrease the extinction by ten per cent, meaning that one million in ten million species can disappear. Thomas and colleagues tried to model the different possible scenarios with the minimun loss of species, but with all this supposition a question always comes back: " where are these same conditions going to be found? ", which means where can we find a new area with the same conditions of life before the global warming.
Next, Stuart Pimm said that these species moved, but the climate also affected their habitation, which means that biodiversity is endangered like species. Then all these species can't change their aera; they don't have this possibility, they are not able to migrate, and if all the species go to a new area, this one can be smaller for all them and can it support fewer species?
Finally, both of these two scientists suggest doing everything possible, to reduce this global warming, and both of them encourage all of the different governments to do something. And they gave some examples like cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, employing new energy efficient technologies and using strategies to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That is possible if everybody does something, and we can do it. The world and its environment are in game
Reference
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, January 07). Global warming threatens millions of species
New Scientist. Retrieved October 16, 2007
from http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true
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