What is a carbon cycle???

The carbon cycle is a biogeochemical cycle by which is carbon is exchanged. The cycle is usually thought of as four major reservoirs of carbon interconnected by pathways of exchange. The reservoirs are:

-The atmosphere.

• Forests store 86% of the planet’s above-ground carbon and 73% of the planet’s soil carbon
• fresh water systems and non-living organic material, which is called terresterial biosphere.
• Oceans.
• The sediments including fossil fuel.

In the atmosphere

Carbon exists at the Earth atmosphere in the form of CO2(Carbon Dioxide). It is a small % and still rising…

Carbon in taken through 2 main process:

-The photosynthesis of green plants.

-Forests store 86% of the planet’s above-ground carbon and 73% of the planet’s soil carbon.

Like what we have said, deforestation affect the carbon cycle, do you know that the carbon cycle is one of the factors to contributes live in living things? But with lesser trees available, more carbon dioxide will not be taken and stays in the atmosphere which results in global warming.

Therefore, there is this project organizations formed in the year 2001, called the “Global Carbon Project”. The main aim of the organization is to reduce greenhouse gases and its causes. Also, their main focus is to educate others about the carbon cycle.Their projections have indicated that we can expect climatic conditions to occur under the IPCC’s worst-case scenario, as CO2 emissions reach 500ppm sometime during the 21 st century.

Carbon cycle re-balancing

Here are some green movement to re-balance carbon cycle.

• Sustainable energy – a shift from fossil fuels energy to wind power and solar power
  
• Nuclear Power – as an alternative to fossil fuels
• Sustainable design – to reduce inputs and outputs of energy
• Sustainable transport – to reduce reliance on fossil fuels

And by the way, it may be early but…Happy 2009!!! from us, 2M1C

-Experimentalist estimates that there are 137 plant types lost, animals of various sorts and insects species, thus, 50,000 live species lost per year.

-Currently, 121 drugs produced worldwide, came from tropical rainforests.

-25% are of humankind pharmaceuticals products came from tropical rainforest, while 1% of it is for research to find new cures for illness.

-Practically 50% of world’s flora,fauna and organisms are destroyed for the next few years due the fact of multi logging corporations, short-sighted administration and carelessly irresponsible land owners.

-Every year, the amount of cleared forest is the same as the size of Panama. With this rate,

-The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture.

-The method slash and burn is the fastest way of clearing forests.

After all that explaination, here’s an advertisement from youtube to warn the public on Global warming done by the Blue Man group. The blue man group consist of three bald men painted their heads blue, and they performed wacky arts performances worldwide! They are Well-known in the Europes for their performances. Without further ado, here’s the advertisement:

anh one of their performances:

This are two videos done by one of our group member, Hafidz. The first one is titled,”Deforestation-Causes and effects” by man and the other one is “I love the whole world” . The first video is just to show the destruction and effects caused by deforestation and the other one is a “tribute” to our planet, Earth for what it has provide us for the past million years.

This videos will also be used in our final year presentation.

Enjoy.

World Wildlife Funds Inc (WWF)

It was since the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and The Conservation Foundation were trying to meet conservation needs. And a group of scientist and reasearches came in a group and  set up a shop to raise funds for conservations. As time passes by, their team got recognized and several leaders reailzed that it is essential to make an internationall- known organization to help conserve the Earth.And WWF  is formed in 1st December 1961. Their first president was Dwight D. Eisenhower and vice president, Russell E. Train. The 45-year evolution of WWF has entailed not only philosophical and organizational changes, but also has yielded a maturing and increasingly productive relationship with the international World Wildlife Fund Network.

If you are interested in helping them, feel free to click the link below, register as a member and make your donations =)

https://secure.worldwildlife.org/forms/2.0/support_wwf.cfm?sc=AWE0906GD010&CFID=23705462&CFTOKEN=9837b29fbba63780-640AD795-A3C5-9712-C1AE3CFBDE893452

If there is superhero, of course there eill be villain like Hoggish Greedly. He is a pig-like human which represents the dangers and harm n industrializations and greed. There are quite a number of villains too.

Here is the opening of the cartoon series:

And the theme song:

THE POWER IS YOURS!

Why? The first reason was, it took many years to grow a forested area. Besides, Forest provide man with alot of benefits, such as timber, medical herbs and spices and also, a source of food too. The another reason was it is a easy and fast method to cease your opponent. As you know, It took many years to grow a tree, but it only took less than 1 minute to chop it down.

The forested area was heavily destroyed which only mud and maggots are left behind. Everything was gone in a matter of minutes! Due to  the fact that war does not happen that frequent, that means deforestation that happens by war is only a small percentage.

Reference link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation#Military_context

Example of an Individual help to reduce deforestation is also shared in the video. Enjoy!

Man’s selfishness have caused the Earth a huge consequence! Do you know that it took  many years for a young shoot to grow and spread into a large forest area? And it takes only 20 years to clear it!

More updates coming soon!