Drought declared in California

What the article talked about was the water shortages in California. That if Californian's don't start conserving water their going to start cutting back on water or the water price is just going to rocket up. It also talks about California needs to stop depending on the Colorado River to provide southern California with fresh water because the river does not have as much water as it used to, do to hotter winters.

Worldwide Water Shortage on Horizon

A water shortages worldwide is becoming a crisis. By 2025 more than half the nations in the world will face freshwater stress or shortages and by 2050 as much as 75 % of the world's population could face freshwater scarcity. as this crisis grows the government is being forced to rethink the usage and how the manage water. Drinking water supplies, agriculture, energy production and generation, mining and industry all require large quantities of water. I think that we need to manage are water , because soon enough we well have limited resources of freshwater.

Drought declared in California

This article is about how governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a statewide drought. He warned citizens and water manager to cut the use of water or face the possibilty of rationing next year if there is another dry winter. He has also directed the state Department of Water Resources to help speed up water transfers to the places with the worst shortages. This article is telling us that there is a drought and to think about the way we are using our water and if we are using it wisely. This article let's us know that stuff like this is actually happening and we need to be cautious. I think it is good to let everybody know that a drought is declared and they did not just let a little bit of the community to know.


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Drought declared in California

What is Terrorism?

The article I read was about Terrorism was explaining what Terrorism is "Terrorism is not new, and even though it has been used since the beginning of recorded history it can be relatively hard to define. Terrorism has been described variously as both a tactic and strategy; a crime and a holy duty; a justified reaction to oppression and an inexcusable abomination."

International security chiefs meet in Jerusalem to discuss counterterrorism

This article tells us that international security chiefs meet in Jerusalem and discussed about how to fight and decrease terrorism. Foreign minister Tzipi Livni believed that the international community should stop making moral equivalences between citizens who have been killed by suicide bombers and citizens who were killed during operations against militants. Nine different countries were involved with this meeting.This shows the world that people are not just sitting around and not doing anything about terrorism, they are actually getting together and figuring out what to do about terrorism. I think that the more that they show that they are actually attempting to do something about terrorism makes me more comfortable knowing that they are not just sitting around letting terrorist take advantage.


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International security chiefs meet in Jerusalem to discuss counterterrorism

Patriot Act draws privacy concerns

What the article talked about was that the U.S. just signed a new bill known the USA Patriot Act, what It Is, Is a bill that gives the government more freedom to check the internet and look for any threat's of terrorism against the U.S. It was passed following the attacks of Sept. 11. It also gives the Government more law power to arrest s person, like if you were to overstay your visa for just one day, you would get arrested for that. Pretty much saying that the law's are being enforce and stricter.

Pentagon: Suspected Mastermind of USS Cole Bombing Confesses

The article I read is talking about a man named Waleed Mohammed Bin Atash who has been for a long time, suspected of plotting the bombing of the USS Cole. He finally confessed at the hearing that took place at Guantanamo Bay. In the hearing he includes many of his acts of retaliation against Americans. Like, he said that he bought a boat and some explosives to that he would later use on the USS Cole and just goes on with some other things he was also involved in. This one relates to terrorism and is important to that group because it's a real terrorist that's coming out of the closet and actually confessing what he did. I think that is what makes it important because I have never heard someone just confess things like that. I think that they should put this man in prison because of all the bad thing he did and he is not even ashamed to say what he's done. Terrorism is bad and should stop because they kill innocent people.

Terroris Research

"Terrorism is a criminal act that influences an audience beyond the immediate victim". The strategy of terrorists is to commit acts of violence that .draws the attention of the local populace, As we know war is been around for many year and today war is still around. For examaple, like Iraq and the whole bombing

Terrorism Research

• Terrorism Research!!!!!

In this article it defines what terrorism is. It explains that terrorism can mean multiple things it all depends on how it is done. Terrorism can be described as both a tactic or a strategy. In addition to a crime or holy duty or basically a justified reaction to oppression and an inexcusable abomination. As said in the article The United States Department of Defense defines terrorism as “the calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.” I mean for me that is something that would be difficult to understand. In addition it seems as if the people that do this unlawful terrorism don't think of it as a bad thing because it was assigned for them to do by religion. So what would there definition of terrorism be to them? Also the FBI has there own definition of terrorism as well it is: "Terrorism is the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives." As a result, this article was basically explaining what terrorism really is. What it does and how it is accomplished. I believe we need to find more ways to stop it then to accomplish it.

what i learned

What I learned about a meeting taking place in Jerusalem he talked about how America was inroad with battling heart and minds.I learned how the main leader was talking about how civilians were being killed by suicide bombers. Then killed by militants.He said to his people that Israel was often criticized for harming civilians for sending them in operations against the militants.

Terrorism Research - StephenYap3

Terrorism Research - What is Terrorism?

http://www.terrorism-research.com/

It said that terrorism has been described variously as both a tactic and strategy. It also said that terrorism has often been an effective tactic for the weaker side in a conflict. As an asymmetric form of conflict, it confers coercive power with many of the advantages of military force at a fraction of the cost. It relates to the violence and threats that have been haunting the involved citizens of those attacks. It also relates to how this might look like when the world is at a brutal war. To my opinion, I think that whoever wrote this had done an outstanding job of how this article is wrote and how detailed it explains. I also think that this article is frightening because of how a terrorism or war was like back then in wars that involved both U.S. and other foreign countries.

Pentagon: Suspected Mastermind of USS Cole Bombing Confesses

Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash, is the leading suspect for the bombing of the USS Cole. he planned the attack during the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba hearing. Bin Attash, also helped plan the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 that killed 213.
Bin Attash confessing:
"I participated in the buying or purchasing of the explosives," bin Attash said when asked what his role was in the attacks on the Cole and the embassies. "I put together the plan for the operation a year and a half prior to the operation, buying the boat and recruiting the members that did the operation."
The release of Bin Attash's transcript came five days after the Pentagon released the record of hearings held for 3 other high-value suspects at Guantanamo. One of them, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, confessed to nearly 3 dozen plots including the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. bin met with the man operating the bomb hours before it taking place.

Food Shortages: How will we feed the world

This article I read is talking about how food prices are going up and will probably stay up until the year 2010. The rice prices have gone up and is estimated that it's raised about two and a half times nore then in January 2007. I also read that rich people spend about 10-20% of their money on food, while people in the less fortunate world spend from 60-80 of their money on food. The people in Africa have sold their tools, animals, and sheets of tin. I also read that nearly half of the earths potential agricultural land is beings unused. This article relates to the food shortage that's taking place all around the world mainly in the more poor countries. IT's giving probabilities of when it might be over too. I hope that all the more rich countries can get together and help fight this problem effecting the whole world.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/22/scifood122.xml

FoodShortage - StephenYap3

Food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3423734.ece

It is saying that experts claim this as the climate changes was getting slumped by heat waves, causing a delay to harvests around the globe. The delay of crops and prices were being blamed for the use of land for biofuel crops. Basically, it relates to both climate changes and food shortages. I think this is absurd and abusing because of the heat waves affecting our food and how quickly it is shortening now.

40 countries face food shortages worldwide

What the article talks about are the different types of problems that food shortages bring to a country, also how the weather contributes to the food shortages, like the lack of wheat in the world that were starting to see, except in United States and Europe were they expect an incline, but many countries in Africa are having many problems with food shortages do to the climate, the lack of food and water. Thats the reason why lots of people are migrating to other countries. This relates to my team that were studying climate change and do to climate change we have a shortage of food. I think Global warming is the one causing all these changes and making all the problems, that in many years theirs probably not going to be a change for human life to exist in this world.

The Food Shortages; How we Feed the world

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/22/scifood122.xml

In the article Food Shortages;How will we feed the world? It talks about The era of cheap food is over grocery bills are driving up inflation and land prices are going through the roof. But steep rises in the price of staples such as wheat and rice are having an even bigger impact on poor countries. In the country of Camroon 24 people died because of food riots since the month of February. Also in the past few month theres been riots in Egypt, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Madagascar. This article relates to climate change because it says why people are having riots and sooner or later everyone is all over the world.

expert global food shortage

What I learned about expert global food shortage is that the world resources are being used up and won't return for 3 decades. We have to find a way to eat soon or we will all starve and their won't be anything to eat. If we can try to save the natural food resources then we will probably last 2 decades.

Food Shortages: How will we feed the world

• How will we feed the world?

I believe it is time we stand up and make a change. This is This Article explains the food shortages. It tells us how china is such a bid country and they have been increasing in their money. So many chines want to get meat. But it takes more food to grow the cow then to eat he food that they give the cow. Now almost 40 countries are loosing food and trying to get as much food as they can. Technology really isn't helping. It has helped but obviously not enough. People in Africa have to sell almost everything such as there clothes, animals, things they have made, and almost all there belongings to just be able to get food. This relates to many things such as water shortage. But most of this always comes back to Global Warming. Its preposterous that us humans see what is happening yet we just live our daily lives and do nothing else. We miss the crucial parts and soon we will see what our "mistakes" have done.

Food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise

The article "food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise", talking about how the world is 10 weeks away from completely running out of wheat supplies. the prices for bread, beer, biscuits and other basic foods. It could also create food shortages in developing countries especially in Africa. the blame the fall of wheat on climate change. 2 years of wheat harvests, which saw production fall from 624m to 600m tonnes. this article relates to global warming, because the climate change is killing the crops.

Food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise

This article in about the whole world will run out of wheat in 10 weeks. Since this crisis is happening the price of beer, bread, biscuits, etc. will rise drastically. Researchers blame climate change for this crisis. The heatwave is causing the wheat's to dry out and die. Another cause for the wheat issue is farmers are feeding their livestock with grains and wheat's. FAO(United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization) predict that these shortages will stop within 12 months. It is a good thing for them to inform us on what is happening and what we are losing out on. Knowing what is going on creates more people involved and wanting to stop this shortage. In knowing what is going on in the world like this shortages made me more involved in the situation of our climate changing drastically.

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Food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise

Food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise

The world will run out of wheat in about 10 weeks. Its a trip to think that many people will starve because of the over use of natural resources. The article is talking about how we are running out of wheat in the world. The shortage of wheat will raise prices for wheat made materials at the stores. I think that people need to not be so greedy and waste full. The climate change is also having an effect on the amount and quality of crops being grown.
Food Shortages

40 countries face food shortages worldwide

On Oct 9, 2006 40 countries face food problems such as African,Somalia,Asia,China, Central African Rebulic and etc due to hurricanes and reduced food aid and crop damage due to floods in July has increased the insecurity of food.Due to all the floods and hurricanes people lost many things and the food industries has decrease because food has been damage and they don't know if it save to give it to people who needed.Afghanistan due to high temperatures is creating big problems with food. Many countries are being help with food and supplies. This article relates to what are groups are working on like climate change, food ,water and such. I think its very sad to be in a situation like in these countries because I believe that food is one of the most important source in our life's. http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000416/index.htmlIf you wish to read

Climate Change Has A Big Impact On Oceans

The ocean is being affected by Climate and many other things such as coral reefs are being killed and the ocean temperature are getting warmer.In 1998 due to a worldwide bleaching event killed 20% of coral reefs and in the year of 2005 and lost 80%. The greenhouse gas emissions plays a big role on the big impact on oceans because its causing for the ocean to become warmer and yet putting coral reefs in danger once again.Greenhouse gas are creating dramatic buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is quickly making the world's oceans more acidic, said panelist Scott Doney of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. So what it sounds to me is that many thing are affecting climate change as well the ocean temps. animals,basically our earth,we have to be more cautions and big company's as well.

Cite Your Sources Please

Your group is still working really hard and I am so impressed by your desire to find information and seek understanding about your topic. I want you to link to your sources though. You must cite where your information comes from.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/earth_climate/climate/
The article I read today was about the impact and the how climate change reproduced They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the weather and climate system to projections of future climate. The most talked-about models of recent years have been those relating air temperature to emissions of carbon dioxide.

Arctic Meltdown article - StephenYap3

The title of this article is Arctic Meltdown, from this location here from this link:
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080301faessay87206/scott-g-borgerson/arctic-meltdown.html

How I remembered what it said, the Arctic Ocean was melting, and is melting fast this summer to one-million square miles and reduced the polar caps to half the size than it was fifty years ago. This information is important to me because it tells us how global warming would be like in the future when we are in snow. To my opinion, this article is quite good to fit in our group because I think that this is the most intriguing article I've ever seen.

Climate Change Has Major Impact On Oceans

It was talking about how the change in the temperature is changing the water temperature and killing some environments. This information is important because there get all our fish and other sea food. this article reminds me about when I watched the Inconvenient Truth with my mom. and the raising of the sea temperature is them cause of the glaciers melting faster than predicted. I think that we need to stop global warming as soon as possible. Our planet is more than 70% water and if we continue to let the water heat up it would be like being in a boiling pot and turning it up to an unlimited setting. we would burn ourselves into extinction.

climate change soultion

we can change economy by saving electricity and using it on cars. we could also save trees and plants. Then we can shut off the factories .

My article research - StephenYap3

I've read an article from this link:

http://www.naturalnews.com/020756.html

This article is about Earth's wobbly orbit that may cause climate changes and which, unfortunately does mass extinctions per 2.5 million years. I also read that it has been caused from asteroids that have been crashing on the Earth's atmosphere or orbit and has been stumping archaeologists about why this happens every 2.5 million years.

What I Learned

I read about the impact on climate change by transforming the world's oceans by increasing the temperature and acidity of seawater,

Climate Change

The article said that 9 out of 10 changes to plants and animals were because of the earth warming up. That number is too high and gos to show that we are slowly killing our earth in different ways that affect the same thing....Global Warming. It said that climate changes are showing up in all the continents to. The changes could make the entire ecosystem to become unbalanced.

Blogger confusion

The reason i could not read the climate change article cause me and my teacher spent most of our time trying to get my teammate on the blog.It was so funny we tried to get on the blog it said " duplicate error".We could not get him on we have tried everything and the funniest thing of all was that we had to create another account on goggle blogger which had allow him to get on.(hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha)The computer i think automatically named him jojo and i was laughing on the inside! (Note i am not making fun of my teammate just can't help but laugh)

blogger fustration

i spend the whole day yesterday trying to sign in to the blog but i was not able to till right now. I learned how difficult a simple thing can become once your using technology. I had to try to sign in and become a member for more then five times till i was able to get in. I spend the whole class period today and yesterday with this problem that i was not able to read any article or post on the blog.

Major Impact on Oceans

After read a climate article I've realized that its not just the air thats being affected its the ocean to. Greenhouse gas are warming the world's oceans and providing a new threat to coral reefs. Which are among the most threatened of all marine ecosystems. Even the smallest warming of a degree or two above normal temperatures can cause a breakdown the corals and their symbiotic algae. In 1998, there was a worldwide mass bleaching events affecting 80% of the coral reefs in the Indian Ocean, 20 % of which died. In 2005, severe bleaching occurred over most of the Caribbean as a result of warming water temperatures. We have lost 80 % of the reef corals in the Caribbean over the past three decades.

What I've read - StephenYap3

Today, I've read about the Earthquake and Cyclone Victims article on this link:

http://www.naturalnews.com/023251.html

As far as I read, it is about a bunch of people getting hurt and losing homes from such natural disasters such as earthquakes or cyclones as I said above. I also read that even if people tried to help the poor and give them lifetime needs and all, they could be in danger. And, I've also heard that there are $5,000 to $10,000 donations to the poor.

Life Feels the Effect of a Changing Climate

This article tells us about how climate changes around the world is going to influence human life greatly. It explains that climate change does things like shrinking glaciers, changes river flows, warming lakes, etc.. It is also telling us that obviously climate changes is going to greatly affect our world. I think that this article is telling the truth because day by day you can realize that nature is changing in many way's. It is good to know this information now and for the future because it makes people realize that changes like this in our world is hurting us all and we need to do something about and we need to prevent it.

Link to the article:
Life Feels the Effect of a Changing Climate

State Of Knowledge EPA

This article explains whats known, Whats likely to happen, and Whats not certain.
Scientists believe that the composition of Earth's atmosphere has been changed because of human activities. Humans are also a huge cause of the atmospheric buildup of CO2 and other greenhouse gases because of such things as the burning of fossil fuels. Then again there are other things such as increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. Scientists concluded that the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations has been the one of the reasons for climate and temperature change. But then again it is not proven. Scientists can just believe in a theory. Scientists conclude that as the greenhouse gas concentrations rise the sea levels and temperatures will increase as a result. In addition precipitation patterns will change. There are still uncertain questions such as how fast the global crisis will hit or how the warming will affect the rest of the climate system including precipitation patterns and storms. There are multiple questions that scientists still needs to understand. So in the mean time they will just assume there theory is right.

What I learned about today is how to get into my blog and sign in with a little bit of struggle. My article I chose is about the polar bears being in the endangered list.

I learned how to accept an invitation I get. It was hard for me and jose to get in it but we finally did. I also learned how to make a link

What I learned

What I learn is how to create a articles and how to add people to be apart from the other sites. Plus the best thing about the blog is that i can share my opinions with other people. I like to thank Mrs. Roberts for helping me with creating a blog.

What I've Learned....

Today I have learned how to be apart of a blog. I also have learned that climate changes have greatly affected polar bears. Climate changes have affected polar bears by putting them on the endangered list.

What......

I learned that Global Warming can be resolved as long as we have the support of our citizens and government. Also if we reduce the use of cars and stick with hybrid cars and other transportation's that doesn't effect the world.

What I've learned - StephenYap3

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http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html

I've learned how to post a link on this post and how to communicate better with friends and this group. I've also learned to grab a chair before joining a group to not get yelled at from the captain.

I learned today how to make a blog for my group called change in climate

What i learned today...

I learned that some of the people in the group do not do their work and will be doing this project by them selves if they continue to not contribute to the group.

climate change

Today, i learned how to sign in to the blog. i also learned No matter how much we try stopping the population it wont help. its just going to get worst.