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Block E and Homework and social studies13 Mar 2007 07:44 am

Names of ancient Egyptian gods

A drawing of Anat from Egypt

Anat, the mother of godsURL: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/anat.htm

Another depiction of Baal

Baal. the god of Thunder.

URL: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/baal.htm

Osiris, the god of  death URL: http://www.ctio.noao.edu/instruments/ir_instruments/osiris2soar/osiris_left.gif

 

 Ra, the god of Sun

URL: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/re.htm

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Block E and Current events and Homework and social studies10 Mar 2007 10:23 pm

Report outlines global warming’s effects

Author: CNN

Date posted: 11/3/07

Date seemed: 11/3/07

URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/03/10/climate.report.ap/index.html

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Picture of a powerplant in Mongolia.

What is the issue?

The issue is that now global warming is getting worse and the world is not really doing anything about it. Scientists say the following events could happen because of global warming.

  • Hundreds of millions of Africans and tens of millions of Latin Americans who now have water will be short of it in less than 20 years. By 2050, more than 1 billion people in Asia could face water shortages. By 2080, water shortages could threaten 1.1 billion to 3.2 billion people, depending on the level of greenhouse gases that cars and industry spew into the air.
  • Death rates for the world’s poor from global warming-related illnesses, such as malnutrition and diarrhea, will rise by 2030. Malaria and dengue fever, as well as illnesses from eating contaminated shellfish, are likely to grow.
  • Europe’s small glaciers will disappear with many of the continent’s large glaciers shrinking dramatically by 2050. And half of Europe’s plant species could be vulnerable, endangered or extinct by 2100.
  • By 2080, between 200 million and 600 million people could be hungry because of global warming’s effects.
  • About 100 million people each year could be flooded by 2080 by rising seas.
  • Smog in U.S. cities will worsen and “ozone-related deaths from climate (will) increase by approximately 4.5 percent for the mid-2050s, compared with 1990s levels,” turning a small health risk into a substantial one.
  • Polar bears in the wild and other animals will be pushed to extinction.
  • At first, more food will be grown. For example, soybean and rice yields in Latin America will increase starting in a couple of years. Areas outside the tropics, especially the northern latitudes, will see longer growing seasons and healthier forests. Who is involved? 

    • People around the world

    • People who are causing the global warming

    Who is affected how?

    The people around the world is affected because we are the ones who are going to suffer. The animals are affected like polar bears, and penguins because the ice in Artic and Antaractic will all melt and they won’t have any homes.

    What would you do if you are directly involved?

    This is what we all have to do. We have to try to use less cars or motorcycles as possible and we should try to save as much smoke from letting it go up the sky.

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