Global Warming Getting Faster!

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century. Now it's getting faster and more ice is melting across the globe. Between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion tons of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted at an accelerating rate since 2003. NASA geophysicist Scott Luthcke came up with the losses of ice made enough water to fill the Chesapeake Bay 21 times! Thats a lot of water! "A few degrees of change [in temperature] can increase the amount of mass loss, and that contributes to sea level rise and changes in ocean current," Luthcke said. This is a very serious matter which will no doubt change our future as humans. I think that to stop this from happening faster, we must lower pollution. A good idea to help this cause would be to carpool, ride your bike, or even work from home! I hope that this situation is solved fast because if it isn't it will affect us in many ways. All in all, global warming is getting faster and it is up to us to stop it.

Source- http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/16/melting.ice/index.html

Swiss Soldiers Without Guns!?!?

Switzerland, a land famous for the law to store weapons at home, just might lose their special privilege. This could can change many things in Switzerland. All the suicides, robberys, and more would be decreased dramatically. Green lawmaker Josef Lang said, "More than 1.5 million unused weapons were kept in Swiss homes." Switzerland without storing guns at home would be a drastic change to the regular Swiss life. Specialists think security has to be tighter so that we can prevent deaths. I find this matter very serious and strongly oppose the privlage of storing guns at home. All in all, storing guns at home might be banned in Switzerland.

Source- http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/24/switzerland.gun.army.referendum/index.

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NJ Middles School Going Down

     Middle schools in NJ aren't looking good. NJ middle schools students are doing very bad in 

language arts tests and the math tests. 40% of students are failing language arts tests, while 25% are failing math tests. High school students aren't doing bad, even though there average scores dropped slightly. Even fourth graders are doing better. 85% of them passed the tests assigned to them. All in all, NJ middle school students have to step it up or be stepped on.

Source- http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/tough_new_state_tests_spur_hig.html