Climate Change

We are learning to structure speeches.
I found it hard to find " WOW!" facts.
It was easy to organize my ideas.
Our success criteria were to...

• Write a title that tells the reader the issue being argued.
• Use a rhetorical question.
• Write an introduction that explains my point of view
• Include definitions for any difficult words
• Organize my ideas into paragraphs
• Make sure each paragraph has a main point and two examples
• Write a conclusion that explains my point of view
• Edit for spelling and punctuation
• Present my work to a peer for assessment

Next time I would include which energies are fossil fuels.

We have all heard of it, but do you really know what it is? Climate change and global warming are related but aren’t exactly the same. Global warming is the temperature; climate change is how it affects rainforests and glaciers. Farming, deforestation, and burning fossil fuels help climate change. 

The Amazon rainforest is burning down. It was meant to get burned down only a little bit but got out of control, and now the damage can be seen from space! The Amazon forest is so big, its nickname is “the lungs of the earth” because it is 20% of the planet’s oxygen.

The earth’s atmosphere is getting hotter which causes the glaciers to melt. The sea level is rising, and small islands like the Maldives, are disappearing. As the glaciers are melting, animals like polar bears, are having to swim long distances, though they are not designed for that.

How is climate change caused? We all know that burning fossil fuels get trapped into the earth because of the atmosphere. But what else can cause it? Amazingly, farming is contributing to climate change! How? Well, it gets even crazier! When cows eat, methane gas builds up in their system, which is a greenhouse gas, comes out… as a fart! Just imagine 1.5 billion cows releasing all that! Deforestation helps climate change. Forests are very convenient to get rid of carbon dioxide - a greenhouse gas.

Something just as easy as switching off the light, or taking 4-minute showers to save energy, money, will prevent more climate change.

Contributing  - helping
Methane - A greenhouse gas that builds up in cows’ systems.

Fossil fuels - Fuels that were formed millions of years ago.