Sandy storyline

I am writing this blog on two sandy storyline videos. This is an assignment from my English101 class. The assignment is to watch two vedios and summarize it using quotes from the video. 

         Sheapshead bay, Brooklyn is one of the many places affected by Hurricane Sandy. In the video " A Current on Shore Parkway" Joe Lombardi was interviewed about his experience from Hurricane Sandy. Joe Lombardi owns a house in sheepshead bay that was destroyed from the hurricane. Joe and his family did not evacuate and we're forced to leave there homes in the middle of the night due to flooding and power outage in there homes. Joe, his brother, mother, wife and two kids walked a long distance in water that was high enough to almost reach the wife and mother necks. The water in the street had currents. Joe says " to walk away alive, unstaind, and health wise fine; were the lucky ones" (Joe Lombardi). There are so many people who died, people who have developed life threatening illness and people who were serverly injured during hurricane sandy. If you were still psychically in tacked after the hurricane u are considered lucky in joe eyes. Joe mentioned how he thinks more hurricanes like this will come because of global warming and I agree. Climate change will cause sea levels to rise. It will cause natural disasters if not watched closely and maintained. More families like joe's will have these challenging experiences. 

          Home onwers have no choice but to continue to pay there mortage and find ways to rebuild there homes after hurricane sandy. In the video "The Time in Between" Debbie Tunner was interviewed a spoke about her efforts to rebuild and fix the home she's lived in for 7 years after Hurricane Sandy destroyed it. Debbie turnner like joe family did not evacuate. Debbie was 8 months pregnant when the storm hit. Her daughter Ayla who was 7 at the time said she could have drowned in her room. They all survived the storm and moved into a rental while they wait for the government and insurance company to give her money to started fixing her home. Debbie feels that she can't give up on her house because she will be in dept. she wouldn't be able to buy a care and she can't walk away from her responsibilities. She has gotten all her paper work done for her house to be approved for rebuilding and paper work to recieve 10,000 dollars that would go into her home, but it was all lost. So it all had to be done all over again. Debbie says " it's just a waiting game" (Debbie's Tunner). The government and insurance campanies are not working diligently on getting families back in there homes. Debbie says it would talke at least a year for her to be back in her home. The government and other companies that will economically be affected by climate change are not prepared. Nore are they ready for the responsibility of insuring families homes and safety. 

quote sandwich

       I believe that New York city is not prepared for climate change because we are not using technology to fix climate change. We are also not creating new technology for the purpose of climate change. In the New York times article New York is Lagging as Seas and risk Rises, Critics Warn, Mireya Navarro talks about New York city not being prepared for the dangers of climate change. she talks about the risk of floods and weathers like hurricanes. Navarro supports my idea when she writes that Some New Yorkers believe the answer to climate change is not evacuation but in prevention, "like armoring city waterways with the latest high-tech barriers" (Navarro).  In order to survive climate change we need to come up wit ways to prevent the worst damages with technology. I agree with this because many people do not have enough money to pick up and move. The majority of people would look to the government to protect them.  

peer review

         Today in my English class we did peer review on our first essay assignment. I received very constructive feed back. My peers liked my paragraph structure and quoting. I was told I need to work on my grammar and citing where my quotes are from. I was also told that i need to a wider range of vocabulary because in my draft i was very repetitive. I plan on writing at least 2 more drafts before I turn in my final essay to make sure that I hand in my best work. I will also take all the comments I received today in consideration while I further develop my essay. I need to work on constructing a thesis statement. it would be nice to go over how to formulate a thesis in class and also work on the science paragraph in class. I am going to seek help in making sure my essay structure is correct and I will also see for more peer review inside and outside class.

The climate casino graph

    Hello, my name is Tanya and this blog if for my English 101 class. It will be about a graph shown in the book " The Climate Casino".In the climate casino figure 2 on page 92 shows a global effect of co2 emission. The graph shows that co2 emissions have gown up from 1900s to the 2000s. The trend is 2.6% per year. The blue line on the graph shows the actual growth of co2. This graph is important because it gives the reader a visual view on how much co2 we are throwing into the atmosphere. It also shows that the growth hasn't been steady. The blue shows that at times the co2 emission inclined and declined. This graph also shows that we humans haven't been doing much to slowing the rapid growth of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.

New York Times article

          Hi, my name is Tanya and this blog is about a New York Times article called "New York is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics Warn. This article is about how important a it is for New York City to start planning for the worst of climate change. Mireya Navarro says " instead of planning to be flooded as he puts it, city, state, and federal agencies should be investing in protection..." New York City should start taking actions now that would help or minomize damage that will be done due to the climate change. The article says that nearly 200,000 New Yorkers are living less than four feet above high tide. These are people that will lose there homes if the prediction of New York City getting flooded is true. This article states the New York City transit are unprepared and people feel that the climate change is not a matter of evacuating but it is a matter of preventing. The shows various reason why New York City government officials have not taken proper actions to save the city.

          Baka, Mexico commented " that has nothing to do wit the fact that we mankind are influencing the climate with greenhouse gasses, and at least partially causing the current warming trend...to deny is ignorance." This comment stode out to me beacuase I agree. There are many people who knows what's happening to the globe and chose to look away. People think that it's all suspicion. I feel we have enough evidence that's proves this right and as a collective group we need to try and stop it. The government needs to put together plans that will protect New York City and the world.
   
         

The Climate Casino

William D. Nordhuas says in The Climate Casino " discussion of global warming usually begins with the emissions and accumulation of co2...however, the real starting point is with human and their daily lives" (chapter 3, page 33).  Humans in the 21st century follow daily routines that produce co2 into the atmosphere that adds to global warming. many technology that are used to get to and from school, work, hospitals, etc produces co2. Traveling in New York city harms the global. This makes me think how can going to school harm my future and others or is industrialization the cause of global warming? Technology that were created to advance our culture and future seems to be destroying it.   

Changing how much fossil fuels we used seems almost impossible. Almost all Technology we use is run on fossil fuel. 90 percent of the energy we used comes from burning fossil fuel. In order to change this fact we would have to spend more money. Money that we do not have. We would have to change our daily lives. Maybe ride a bike to work instead of driving. After reading chapter 3 I realized how much i'm contributing to global warming.