Students of Today, Leaders of Tmr..

Smoke pouring from the chimneys of the petrochemical works and oil refineries at Grangemouth in Scotland.

Every time i look at this picture, i go KNN CB diao nia &%@#$..... If that amout of smoke is coming out every second of .. lets say half the day... i really don't know how our planet will survive.

Ladies and gentleman, fellow 5Gigihianz.. We are always too busy with out lives, especially with studies. World affairs, politics and so on don't really matter much. We may talk about it, but shrug it away after that. Global warming is something that will affect us all. We have only one planet to live on, and if earth is not cherished and taken care of, i really don't know what will happen to mankind, life.

If you still don't believe in global warming, i'm seriously appalled. One of the most telltale signs is the weather. Lately it has been dam blardy hot, and rain is occurring less and less. In other parts of the region, Myanmar has been hit by a cyclone, which is the first time it had ever happen(if i am not mistaken). There are so many other signs, bkt tinggi has been having tremors lately, and we aren't suppose to be in any danger of earthquakes.. I wonder how will this year's haze and drought be, considering the type of weather we have been facing. Even the ice shelves in the artic are collapsing and melting away...
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Vanishing glaciers around the world give us some of the starkest images of rising global temperatures.

Glaciers develop in areas of high snow fall where low temperatures mean that snow accumulates faster than it melts. The snow changes to ice and slowly moves downhill. Scotland was shaped by glaciers in the last Ice Age, ending about 10,000 years ago. Glaciers cut deep valleys, carved corries and dumped huge amounts of debris when they melted. Both Edinburgh and Glasgow owe much of their shape to underlying glacial landforms.

The rate at which glaciers retreat has increased dramatically in the last decades and is in line with the known trends in global and local temperature. These changes have occurred on all continents.

Some scientists predict that ice melt from glaciers will be the major cause of sea-level rise in the 21st century. They estimate that the accelerated melting of glaciers and ice caps around the world will cause global sea levels to rise add between around 100 and 240 mm by 2100.

In a few places glaciers are actually increasing in size, for example in parts of Norway. Since glacial advance or retreat is controlled by the balance between snowfall and melt, in these areas increased snowfall, consistent with climate change, is greater than the increased rate of melting.

The melting of glaciers and ice fields in the Himalayas is of particular concern. The seasonal melting of this ice feeds the great rivers of India, South East Asia and China, including the Ganges, the Yangtze and the Mekong. These rivers provide half of the drinking water for 2.6 billion people, 40% of the world’s population
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The world is not only gonna suffer from the environmental problems. Oil prices are even said to be possible to rise to $200 a barrel. WTF is dat... a few years back, hitting $100 is unheard of. Now with the world population growing larger and larger(aprox 6.7bil now if im not mistaken), with china rising and developing, opening it's doors to the world, which is a market of nearly 1.3 bil ppl, oil consumption will definitely soar.

In posting this long msg, which many of you might just scroll thru, i hope that i will be able to raise some level of awareness. The fight on global warming is a global effort, and we as students of today, will be leaders in the future. Hopefully then, we will be in a position to do something about it. If we even make it till the future....

So... when you're out and about, going on with ur lives, think b4 u do something. Turn down the temperature of ur water heater when u bathe, dun just buy plastic bottled water but reuse and bring water from home. Think b4 you throw...

Sry if i bore u guys...

take care, have fun...

*on a side note, the blog has a visit count of 1110! i just placed the count there 2-3 weeks ago. xD that either means we have 1110 ppl accessing the blog in 2-3 weeks... OR we just have the few of us fellows visiting the blog 1110 times.. i think its the latter..