Ways to save earth
In Your Home – Conserve Energy
1.Clean or replace air filters on your air conditioning unit at least once a month.
2.If you have central air conditioning, do not close vents in unused rooms.
3.Lower the thermostat on your water heater to 120.
4.Wrap your water heater in an insulated blanket.
5.Turn down or shut off your water heater when you will be away for extended periods.
6.Turn off unneeded lights even when leaving a room for a short time.
7.Set your refrigerator temperature at 36 to 38 and your freezer at 0 to 5 .
8.When using an oven, minimize door opening while it is in use; it reduces oven temperature by 25 to 30 every time you open the door.
9.Clean the lint filter in your dryer after every load so that it uses less energy.
10.Unplug seldom used appliances.
11.Use a microwave when- ever you can instead of a conventional oven or stove.
12.Wash clothes with warm or cold water instead of hot.
13.Reverse your indoor ceiling fans for summer and winter operations as recommended.
14.Turn off lights, computers and other appliances when not in use.
15.Purchase appliances and office equipment with the Energy Star Label; old refridgerators, for example, use up to 50 more electricity than newer models.
Info
The northern ice cap is entierly ice floating on sea water. Should it melt completely the biggest change will be to the salt content of the surrounding sea, it will not alter the sea level as by sitting on the water already it has displaced the same amount of water it contains as ice. It will affect wildlife that lives on the polar ice cap (Pola Bears, Seals etc) but will not affect man to any great extent.
There are some land masses connected to the northern Ice cap (Iceland and parts of Canada for example) but the amount of run off will make hardly any difference.
The southern ice cap does have a land mass under it, however some of the (the Ice Shelves in particular) are also already displacing sea water which they float on. The best estimates are that if the Southern Polar ice cap melts, the sea will rise two to three feet. Obviously the wildlife will be severely affected and also world wide this could cause serious problems for lowland areas.
There will not be ses level rises of the predicted 3 meters as was first thought as the scientists initially forgot that a lot of the melting ice was already floating on water and therefore would not add to the sea level when it did melt, as the water was already displaced.
If this does happen there will be open sea at the north pole and a land mass at the south pole. Undoubted there will be environmental changes world wide, but the best guesses as to what are still only speculation.
Feelings:
As you can see the info, if the north pole melts, singapore can only at least try to hold on
as it rise about 2 or 3 m, but if South Pole melts, it may rise to about 72 m ! (frm wat i heard from my teacher) . If that happens, everywhere will be flooded...then one side of earth is flooded ,if u think u can escape to another place , wrong idea! the other place, will be at least as hot as 100 degrees! so there is no way u can live...So please all, SAVE EARTH!!!
And watch a movie name ''2012'' is nice! You will be a changed person! (my teacher say one too)
Ps:Will post videos soon! xD and after drink bubble tea or milo recycle ^.^ my teacher just say me today too >.<
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