2012?

What do you think will happen in 2012? Well, on the solstice on December 21, 2012 at precisely at 11:11 AM Universal Time marks the completion of the 5,125 year Great Cycle of the Ancient Maya Long Count Calendar.

You can find countless theories about what's supposed to happen in 2012 from doom and enlightenment to absolutely nothing. Some say that on an ancient Mayan calendar 2012 points to the end of the world: they pick December 21 2012 as the exact day as that is when the calender ends.

Others speak of a Nostradamus 2012 doomsday prediction. Nostradamus was in his late 40s when, it is told, he frequently went into a meditative state and had visions of the future. Born Michel de Notredame on 14 December 1503 in St Remy, France, he was the oldest of five sons. Nostradamus who lived in France in the 16th century, made many accurate forecasts, including the two World Wars. Nostradamus is famous for his predictions that many believe have been proved true by past events. What did Nostradamus predict for 2012, the end of the world, or a new beginning ?

The 2012 Galactic Alignment theory of John Major Jenkins has become quite popular, he has invested decades of research into decoding the ancient Maya and their calender.

This Galactic Alignment occurs only once every 26,000 years, and was what the ancient Maya were pointing to with the 2012 end-date of their calendar.

Over 2,000 years ago the early Maya saw that the sun, on the winter solstice, was slowly moving toward the heart of the galaxy. They suspected that the world would go through a transformation when the solar and the galactic planes aligned. They made their calendar to target when the cosmic alignment would maximize, and that time is 2012. We are lucky that the ancient Mayans who made the 2012 calendar left carved monuments for us to decode, and that they have survived centuries, so that we can know exactly what they believed about 2012.

There is only one ancient stone monument with Mayan inscriptions that tells the end of the world, Tortuguero Monument #6. By decoding its characters archaeologist’s where able to determine that the end of the Long Count Calendar Cycle is December 21, 2012.

I don’t take this very seriously and my opinion is that life and all on earth will continue to move on as they usually did and that people and the Internet have greatly exaggerated the theorie. Some people really believe that some sort of disaster will occur on the solstice and are storing emergency supplies of food and building underground homes to protect themselves. On the 21st of December 2012 I will still be nervous to find out what happens. If nothing happens I would have been right all along and if something is to occur I would be proved wrong. Who knows? I hope you know a bit about how people predicted 2012. So what do you think will happen in 2012 and what are you going to do about it?

Leave your opinion on 2012 in the comments. :)

Ancient Mayan Long Count Calendar

Michel de Notredame (Nostradamus)

John Major Jenkins

Galactic Alignment 2010

Rhyming Verse

Rhyming Verse

Celebration Time!

New Years

Thinking of my resolution

For this huge celebration

I can hear my whole town

Yelling out the countdown!

Guy Fawkes

Driving around in the night

Looking around at the lights

Everything is so active and bright

It's such an amazing sight!

Christmas

Hanging decorations on the tree

Spending alot of money

Going on a shopping spree

Receiving lots of gifts for me!

Vacation

It's that time of the year, vacation

It's all about relaxation

The hot summer's sun on my face

It's a sensation!

Kids4Kids E-learning Evaluation Movie

Paparoa house Year seven's and eight's held an e-learning conference called Kids4Kids on Thursday 28th of October this year to teach the year sixe's from Somerville's contributing schools such as Point View, Willowbank, Shelly Park and Cockle Bay how to use computer and internet applications so they are prepared when they come next year. Kyle, Crystal, Krishna and I held a workshop on Google Docs teaching the Shelly Park and Cockle Bay students. Here is an animation created on xtranormal about the Kids4Kids e-learning conference evaluation. We will talk about the highlights and the lowlights of the conference. So sit back, relax and enjoy the movie Crystal and I made! "Lights, camera, ACTION!"

Diamante Poems

Diamante Poems

Young

Youthful, energized

Laughing, running, playing

You notice a wrinkle and realise...

Shuffling, stumbling, sleeping

Experienced, wise

Old

New Zealand

Beautiful, natural

Flowing, jumping, bubbling

Milford Sound, Sky Tower, Geysers & more

Glistening, looking, boiling

Perfect, clean

Utopia

Water

Clean, clear

Sparkling, glimmering, shining

Huka Falls, Pacific Ocean, Lake Taupo & more

Splashing, diving, swimming

Deep, shallow

Paradise

Sun

Bright, hot

Burning, sizzling, boiling

Apollo the sun god of Rome and Greece

Shining, relaxing, glowing

Yellow, orange

Fire

Spring

Beautiful, graceful

Flying, chirping, blooming

Butterflies, birds, blossoms, trees

Gliding, fluttering, flowering

Peaceful, sunny

Perfect

Day

Sun, clouds

Shining, illuminating, gleaming

Bright Blue days and pitch black nights

Darkening, blackening, shadowing

Gloomy, moonlit

Night

Fireworks

Phosphorescent, radiant

Razzling, dazzling, mind-blowing

Celebrating Guy Fawkes, Diwali & New Year

Glittering, scintillating, blazing

Sensational, Spectacular

Happiness

Happiness

Joyful, blissful

Laughing, smiling, talking

Experiencing something better than ever

Thrilling, exciting, amazing

Ecstatic, elated

Memories

City

Rambunctious, loud

Soaring, overflowing, screeching

Skyscrapers, lights, traffic & car exhaust

Towering, gleaming, crowding

Confusion, commotion

Pandemonium

Antarctica

Frosty, Chilly

Freezing, Snowing, Shivering

The frozen continent changing as you know it

Melting, cracking, breaking

Fragile, disappeared

Global Warming

Good Luck

Lucky, fortunate

Wishing, waiting, recieving

Clovers, Charms, broken mirrors, black cats

Breaking, looking, stepping

Unlucky, unfortunate

Bad Luck

Time

Valuable, priceless

Ticking, flying, passing

Days, hours, minutes & seconds

Precious, irreplaceable

Eternity

Tears

Loneliness, sad

Crying, watering, rolling

Don't rust your shiny heart with tears

Caring, appreciating, understanding

Considerate, Passionate

Hopefulness

Fantasy

Subconscious, imaginary

Sleeping, Wishing, thinking

Dreaming, awakening and realising

Being, seeing, Knowing

Authentic, factual

Reality

Awake

Attentive, observant

Looking, doing, knowing

I lie awake and fall asleep slowly

Sleeping, dozing, drifting

Unconscious, unaware

Asleep

Sight

Spectacular, amazing

Seeing, looking, observing

Gazing at the world's beauty, staring at darkness

Darkening, overcasting, blackening

Blackness, nothing

Blind

Daydreams

Happiness, dreams

Dreaming, believing, wishing

Seeing your dreams, Seeing evil

Destroying, smashing, horrifying

Terrible, disastrous

Nightmares

Haiku Poems

Haiku Poems

Spring

Butterflies flying,

Sun shining, blossoms blooming,

Blue blanket of sky.

Winter

My teeth chattering,

My fingers clenched together,

This icy cold day.

Narrative Writing

Last night the animals couldn’t sleep at all, not with all that noise. Brrr....Brrrr...was all they could hear. Pippo had decided to make a stop to all this chaos. Pippo was a takahe. A takahe is an endangered native bird. He had sleek, green and blue feathers, bright orange feet and a sharp red beak. He headed through the forest where the animals had heard the sound coming from. The forest was eerily quiet, all he could hear was the rustling of the leaves and and crackling of the twigs and branches he was stepping on. Pippo was starting to get scared, and right back to meadow “No, no, I can’t”, Pippo whispered to himself. He couldn’t, he simply couldn’t. All of is family were depending on him. If he ran back, they would think he was a scaredy cat who could not even walk through the forest. Finally he came to the end of the forest but everything had changed.

Construction had begun. Cranes and bull-dozers were destroying everything. All the trees were being chopped down. Humans were building something. There were men in yellow hard hats wearing bright orange jackets. On the jacket, Pippo could make out the word, ‘RESORT’. They were building a resort. They could not do this. Takahe are endangered, there isn’t many of them
left.Their habitat would be destroyed. What would they do? Pippo had to warn the others.

Pippo raced through the forest, his heart beating a million times a minute. He was gasping for air. “We have to stop them”, said Pippo urging them to come and see. “Son, it’s too dangerous, we could be killed”, replied Pippo’s father. We have to try and stop them, thought Pippo. He could not sleep at all. He tried to think of a plan. Though all of them were failures. They would never succeed.

The next morning, Pippo had a plan. The secret of all animals was that they could talk. Their secret must never be revealed to the humans. So when humans come, the takahe just make squawking noises. The plan was that they would tell the boss, Cari Mellow of the construction of the resort their secret and tell them that they couldn’t build here. He would also tell the boss to never breath a word about their secret. It was risky though. he explained this to his family. We would also make her live with us. But they all disagreed. “We can never tell them”, his family shouted to him. Finally, Pippo managed to convince them it was their only thing that they could do.

At around midday, the group set out to the forest and to chair were they could see the boss sitting. “ Excuse me”, Pippo muttered. The woman was shocked and nearly fainted. She wore dark blue denim jeans, a bright orange jacket and was holding a red megaphone in her hand. She also had this very stern and mean look on her face. “ We are the takahe living here, yes we can talk. You cannot destroy the forest because we will have no food.” Mrs. Mellow did not say anything but nodded her head.

She was going to stop the construction of the resort. Then she thought that she could capture the talking animals and make a fortune. First she had to trap them. They made her live with them and of course she said yes so she could be rich and famous. The animals were so foolish. Cari led them straight into a trap. The animals were collecting fruit and berries for next season and she told them that she some great nuts over in that meadow. All the animals walked straight into a net.

Cari put them in the boot of her car and drove into town. When she got to town, she told everyone. She even put up posters and starred in advertisements saying she discovered the first talking animals. Luckily, Pippo and the animals had a plan. They would not say a word. She got the net of animals out in front of the t.v camera. “Look, everyone, talking animals!”

The animals kept their mouths shut and just made random squawking noises. The humans did not believe Cari and said that she just wanted attention. Everyone thought she was going crazy as she tried to protest. The animals wee then released back into the wild and the construction of the resort ended. Finally, Pippo was glad to be home. Home sweet home. “Three cheers for Pippo”, yelled Pippo’s father. “Hip, hip hoorah!’, shouted the very happy animals.

Sonna

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My Speech

I made a movie of my speech on the Taj Mahal on xtranormal. Here it is:

Picture Book Podcast

Crystal and I created a podcast on a picture book called The Bear which is by Raymond Briggs. Enjoy!

Procedural Writing

In room 28 we have been studying procedural writing. Here is my How to sheet on how to connect to a Wireless Internet Connection from your Windows computer

How to connect to a Wireless Internet Connection from your Windows computer

Equipment
- Computer/laptop
- Wireless connection modem

Method
1. Press the on button to turn on your computer
2. Click on the start menu or windows icon on the bar at the bottom of your computer screen
3. Choose “Connect to” from the gray side bar
4. Select “Wireless Connection”
5. Click on your wireless network from the list of wireless networks then press the Connect button that is located on the bottom right-hand corner of the window
6. Another screen will pop up, where it says security type choose shared
6. Where it says encryption type select the format of your wireless network key, WEP or WPA
7. In the scroll option where it says format click your type of characters, hexadecimal digits or ASCII characters
8. Where it says network security key type in the network key of your wireless network
9. Choose the key index number of your wireless network key from the scroll bar, 1-4
10. Tick the box which says connect automatically to network if in range in the future so you won't need to connect every time you need to go onto the Internet.
11. Press the Connect button which is located on the bottom right-hand corner of the window
11. Press the rectangular red x buttons which are located at the top right-hand corner of the windows
12. Select the desktop icon of your Internet browser on your desktop to access the Internet

You have now successfully connected to the Internet through your Wireless Broadband Connection!

Term 1 & 2 Review

Kyle.G and I made a podcast on our learning journey so far in 2010.

Chocolate Chiffon Pie

Sonna´s Chocolate Chiffon Pie

For the base:
125g chocolate-coated biscuits ( e.g. chocolate thins), crushed
50g butter, melted

For the filling:
25g dark cooking chocolate
125g packet marshmallows
1/2 cup full milk
250ml cream, whipped
grated chocolate, for sprinkling

1. Grease an 18cm spring-form tin.
2. To make the base, combine the biscuits and butter and press the mixture into the base of the tin.
3. Refrigerate
4. To make the filling, melt the chocolate in a pot over hot water.
5. Gently fold in the marshmallows and add the milk.
6. Blend with a wooden spoon cooking over a low heat until the marshmallows are half melted.
7. Remove from the heat and continue to fold until the mixture is smooth and spongy.
8. Leave to cool.
9. Fold in the whipped cream and pour the mixture over the base.
10.Refrigerate.
11.Just before serving sprinkle with grated chocolate.

Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

The huge monument towers into the sky of Barcelona in Spain. The Sagrada Familia is so spectacular even in its unfinished state. The exterior of the Sagrada Familia is carved with detailed patterns. In 1891 Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi took over as official architect of the Sagrada Familia and made the project as a personal obsession. He had been working on the project for 15 years when he died in a trolley accident on June 10th 1926. The cathedral was left unfinished. Despite controversy over whether the cathedral should remain in its uncompleted form as a monument to the architect but construction began in 1979, closely following Gaudi's original plan. The Sagrada Familia is not expected to be finished till 2026. Construction is not supported by the government. Money from the tickets purchased by tourists is now used to pay for the work.The amount of money used last year for construction was $38,000,000. The Sagrada Familia had been started by the architect Fancisco del Villar in 1882, who had to abandon the project in 1883 and Gaudi took over. When completed the Sagrada Familia will have 18 towers. Only 8 of the 18 towers have been built. The reason why the Sagrada Familia is taking so long to build is because it relies completely on donations and ticket money.

The exterior of the Sagrada Familia.

The interior of the Sagrada Familia.

The Sagrada Familia. You can see the crane from the construction in the background.

The number grid that I saw carved on the exterior of the Sagrada Familia.

All rows, columns and squares add up to 33.

The Electric Car

In room 28 for ALJ we are learning about technology: blessing, beast or burden. We watched a movie called who killed the electric car. This is my review:

Review: Who killed the electric car?

WALT: Describe how advancements in technology occur to meet a need or to solve a problem.

1. What problems does the use of the electric car solve?

It solves the problem of digging for oil in the ground because it uses electricity. It also solves the problem of air pollution because it does not release any fumes into the atmosphere.

2. Who will benefit from the electric car?

Everyone will benefit from the electric car because it is fast and environmentally friendly. It will also decrease the risk of getting lung cancer because it doesn't pollute the air with deadly fumes.

3. What problems are caused by the electric car?

It takes 3 hours to reach full battery and it can only run 100 miles on the full battery. The accessories such as radio and heating run on the electricity and the battery drains quickly. Also you can't travel long distances like from city to city because you may run out of charge.

4. Review on Who killed the electric car?

The electric car was invented in 1996. Electric cars are environmentally friendly and easy to use. People didn't want electric cars because they were expensive and they didn't know much about them. The electric car makers were proving gas car makers wrong. The government goes against electric cars and makes a new hydrogen type of their own. The government also gave General Motors a limited time to speak in court pushing them down. Electric cars were found and were going to be crushed. People were trying to stop the last of the EV1's being crushed. 4000 people were interested in the EV1 and then it went down to 50. People took the electric cars of the road. In the summer of 2004 the last private electric car was taken of the road. General Motors took all the cars and stored them behind a building. They crushed all the EV1's and other electric cars and claimed they were going to recycle and reuse. People then wanted to buy the cars off General Motors. General Motors did not respond to the offers. Now people have never heard of the EV1 or know anyone who owns one. Consumers couldn't see the difference between electric cars and gas cars because people only looked at the price and the features when looking for a new car instead of looking for environmentally friendly cars. In the 20th century, lots of cars were made but barely any of them were electric cars.

Global Warming Podcast

In room 28 for ALJ we have been looking at causes in our world. We used a program called garageband to make podcasts on a cause in the world. My cause is Global Warming. I explored " What causes Global Warming? "Here is my podcast:

Camp

Camp Motutapu 2010 - by Sonna


On the 3rd of May, I walked into the ferry trembling with excitement about going to camp. As we got of the ferry, we started the 6.5 km walk! It was so exhausting, I can´t explain how I felt. That was the only thing, I didn´t like about camp. As soon as we arrived at the entrance sign, a sudden tingling feeling bubbled through my body.

Our first activity was sailing. We were speed sailing when suddenly AHH! we capsized. We continued speed sailing when water started lapping into our sailing boat. The boat was filling with water and within seconds it was like we were sitting in a swimming pool.The boat was getting heavy and we were sinking! Luckily JR (instructor) saved us and took us back to shore in his rescue boat. Our next activity was raft building. We built the raft out bamboo, rope and big black bottles to help us float. We took it down to the beach to test it out. We were in the water when our raft started falling apart! The raft was shaking side to side and everyone was falling off. I was sitting in the middle clinging to the bamboo. SUDDENLY, the raft tipped over and under the water I went. It was time for night time activities. Our night time activity was hall games. We played a game called clothes basket. Matt would yell out items of clothing and we had to bring them to him before the others. It was a tiring day especially from the walk and I was really sleepy.

The next day, I woke up finding out that we had rock climbing. I headed to the rock wall with my group. I buckled my harness, strapped my helmet and was ready to go. I got about halfway on the slab when my muscles were aching and I couldn´t go on any further. I pushed myself to the limit and managed to reach the top of the wall and slap the hi-5. I tried the vertical 1 but only got halfway. Next we had the confidence course. They set up all these activities for us to work as a team. We had this activity were we had to get to the top of the hill. We cant touch the he ground but we could use thse three large discs. Our team got up to the top of the hill and at the end we slid down the discs on the hill. I quickly went back to my dorm to get changed in to my wetsuit for kayaking. We went deep into the water and played a game called water soccer. We played blue kayaks vs. yellow kayaks. There is a tiny soccer all and we had to pass it to five people in our team without the other team getting it and hitting it on Calib´s (instructor) kayak. My arms were exhausted from all the paddling. To end the day we had high ropes. On the cargo net it was me vs. Karen. The istructor was saying Musle vs. Height. Who will win. Up I went, my muscle aching but I kept going on. It was like I was training for the army. Muscle wins! I win! next I did the beam. It was scary. I don´t know why it is scary because I am not afraid of heights. It´s just that you think you might fall even though your attached to the rope. For the night we played spotlight. Crystal and I were hiding in the trees when we say someone coming. He shined his torch all around us. He was about to go when he quickly just shined the torch at us. ¨Well hello there, Sonna¨, said Mr Lawrence. Mr Lawrence was my camp group adult last year. ¨Nice camoflage¨he said as I was wearing all black. I went back to the dorm and had a good nights sleep.

Our first activity for day three was the gunwalk. You see the camp used to be a military camp. We went to the camp museum and watched a video on the history of Motutapu. Then we went on a walk up a very steep hill to see the war tunnels. Inside the tunnels it was pitch black. Mr Glogoski saw a whitetail spider! Next we had archery. Now it doesn´t look as easy as you think. The string is very strong so it is hard to pull back the arrow. Also the bow is really heavy and I keep shaking it and I don´t aim properly. Troll (instructor) shot a bullseye! Next we had survivor challenge. I heard that it was the best activity. I did not want to get too muddy but i had no choice when I got to the tyres. The tyres were to far away from each other and I could not reach and when Mr Glogoski got on it went BOING! I just jumped of the tyres and into the mud! When we were going through the tyre tunnel. Mr Glogoski shouted out ¨Girls, DONT LOOK!¨. I didn´t know what was going on. Dion hopped off and soon I saw. Jason´s pants had fallen off! Eww! Well anyways next we had orienteering. They gave us clues and we had to find markers with symbols on them and translate them into a sentence. One clue said ¨ Go to the sign that says ¨Don´t drink water and No Swimming. Why do people always end up here? The marker is hidden at the top of the reason¨. I thought about it for a while. Why do people end up in the pond? From the flying fox! We ran up the hill and found the marker. We came 2nd. The sentence was YOUR FINISHED. Our night activity was the burmatrail. We walk in to the trees at dark and follow a rope. Parents and teachers scare you in ghost masks. They blow whistles and squirt mustard and water at us. It was awesome. I loved it!


Day 4 is eletives day.My first elective was high ropes. We did the flying kiwi. The flying kiwi is like a swing. You are on a rope swinging in the air. It was amazing. I could see the whole camp. Although I felt a bit sick from all that swinging. My second elective was kayaking. We played a game called evolution. First we all start off as eggs. Then we play paper scissor rock with another egg. If you win you become a fish. Then you play against a fish and so on. First you go from egg to fish to penguin to shark to orca to human and the to champion. To become the actual champion you have to stand up in your kayak and say I am the champion without capsizing! I nearly capsized near the rocks but luckily Mr Paki pulled me out. The waves were huge. My third elective was beach bum. Crystal, Connor, me and another boy made a sand turtle. It looked brilliant. For the night we had the camp concert. The parents acts were so funny. Mr Glogoski did a ventriliqusim act and the puppet was Mr Peat in a mask. It was so funny.

Today is day 5. It is a sad day because we are leaving. There are no activities today. Unless you count cleaning as activity. The day was going out okay until I found out that we were cleaning toilets! Now we would start the 6.5 km walk back to Rangitoto and on the ferry. The walk didn´t seem so long this time. The week went past so fast. Time sure flies when you are enjoying yourself. Anyways, I liked camp this year. What am I saying! I liked camp this year? I loved camp this year!!!

A trip you can never imagine!

A trip you can never imagine!

Spain

Last year in November, I went to Spain for two weeks. To get to Spain, it took 30 hours! First we flew from Auckland to Hong Kong, then we flew from Hong Kong to London. After having six hours of rest time in the Air New Zealand koru lounge. From London we flew to Barcelona, Spain.

We arrived in Fira Palace, our hotel. We felt very tired because of the time difference New Zealand is twelve hours ahead of Spain.

The next day we wet to Barcelona Zoo to take a look at the animals. The day after that we went to the science museum called Cosmo Caixa. It also had an indoor tropical rainforest. On the night of my Mum's birthday, we went to the magical fountain. There was a show that happened every night at 8pm. The fountain shines with lights and water and there is music. No one is in charge of the show. It is automatic!

The next day we went to Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia. A famous monument in Barcelona. The Sagrada Familia was made by the architect Antoni Gaudi. Gaudi died in a trolley accident during the process of building the monument. 1o years later they decided to complete the Sagrada Familia closely following Gaudi's design.

The next day we flew from Barcelona to Valencia, Spain. We stayed in Palacio de Congresso in Eurostar hotel and Novetel hotel. In Valencia we visited the largest aquarium in Europe! In the aquarium we saw a really cool dolphin show.

We also went to a really nice restaurant called Pepe Pica and ate some delicious spanish food. We really enjoyed our trip to Spain. We flew from Valencia to Barcelona to London to Hong Kong then Auckland. We arrived late in the night and went straight to school the next day.

By Sonna

My Novel Podcast on Dark Horses By Heather Cato

In room 28 we used a program called garageband to create podcasts

on the novel we were reading. Here is my podcast which is on

a novel called Dark Horses byHeather Cato:

Cellphones

This is my report on the history of cellphones:

Cellphones

Cellphones are portable communication devices. Before cellphones, two way radios were used in vehicles but weren’t cellphones because they were not connected to a telephone network. Users could not dial numbers from their cars.

In 1910 Lars Magnus installed a telephone in his car, it wasn’t a radio telephone. While driving in the country, he connected using a long pair of wires to the national telephone line.

In Europe, radio telephony was first used on first class passenger trains between Berlin and Hamburg in 1926. Also in 1926 radio telephony was introduced on passenger aircraft for air traffic security.

In 1946, engineers G . Shapiro and I . Zaharchenko successfully tested their version of a radio mobile phone mounted inside a car. The device could connect to the local telephone network with a range of 20 km.

The first person to have a mobile phone was Prince Phillip, who had the system fitted in the trunk of his Aston Martin. The prince could make a phone call to the queen while driving, which was thought to be quite amazing.

In 1958, Kupriyanovich resized his radiophone to “ pocket version”.

So thats the process of the cellphone we have today!

Global warming

Here is my report on global warming:

Global Warming

Global warming is caused by greenhouse gases which go into the atmosphere and trap heat causing the earths temperature to rise.

Air pollution, transportation fuels, fossil fuel retrieval and distribution, power stations, agricultural byproducts and deforestation release greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

The most significant way you contribute to global warming is by driving your car. requires a tremendous amount of fossil fuels that have been storing carbon for thousands of years and when your car burns them, the carbon is released as carbon dioxide.

Buying your home requires the clearing of trees for land to build your house. Trees convert carbon dioxide to oxygen but are being demolished for buildings. When trees are killed the carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere.

Buying supermarket meat requires clearing trees for farmland to grow animals and fossil fuel powered machines. Also the animals digestive tracts release methane.

Population is also a strong cause because more people means more methods of food and transportation.

Proof of global warming is that global temperature has risen by 0.4-0.8 degrees celsius since the 19th century. In the 20th century, the ten warmest years were all after 1985. Of these 1998 was the warmest and 2001 second warmest. Rainfall in the world has rise by 1%. More water vapour in the air in the air in the air is causing heavy rain in more areas.

Now that you know what causes global warming, what can you do about it.

Room 28 Photos

Room 28 took photos around the school and edited them on iphoto. Here are mine:

Taramainuku

Up to the Street

Gardens