About Me

My name is Khaled Hasan Alhosani. I was born in Abu Dhabi in 1983. Since that time I lived with my parent until I got married in 2003 I transferred to separate house in AlRahba city.
I graduated from the Higher College of Technology In Abu Dhabi and I got Certificate diploma in chemical engineering. After that I joined Bourge (polyethylene plant) which is one of ADNOC group of companies in 2001 and I worked there for three years as a mechanical technician. In 2004 I transferred from Borouge and I joined Zakum Development Company with same occupation. After I was there for four years I got the opportunity to continue my study in the Higher College of Technology to do my Higher Diploma in Mechanical Engineer.
I have started my study in Sep 2008. Although I was very happy for that, I faced a lot of difficulties in my study especially in English because I spent long time far away from studying environment.
In the future I’m willing to be active mechanical engineer helping building my country. I believe that this In my free time I like to do different kind of sport such as football and swimming. Moreover, I like to read some novel.
I’m writing this blog to discuss about the fact and causes of the global warming .I hop high lighting this issue will minimize the amount of carbon emission.

Lebanon

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New Lebanon

Lebanon is famous historical country in the Middle East. It was called in the bible the land of milk and honey. It have three officially recognized languages – Arabic, French and English. It is the only countries in the middle East consist of almost equal number of people are embracing Islam and Christianity. As result of that, people living there are considered us a mixture of backgrounds and religious groups.

Lebanon gained the independence from France in 1943. The Christians then Obtained on the head of the country. After that, political vacuum created there especially when the civil war started between Christians and Muslims. The tension increased between them during the Arab-Israeli war when 100,000 (Sunni) Muslim refugees evicted from Palestine into Lebanon in 1948. That changed the plurality of Lebanese Christians in the population into minority. Because of attacking Members of a radical Christian group on a bus full of Palestinians in downtown Beirut in 1975, the Revenge killings and violence began to spiral out of control. 20,000 Syrian troops sent to quash radical Muslim groups. In one massacre alone, 2,000 Palestinians were killed. There was a complete breakdown in trust between followers of the two religions. The Beirut then divided into two parts by the Green Line. The Christian east and the Muslim west. Finally, the war ended in 1989 and there are about 17 sub-groups with their own religious beliefs. Between 150,000-200,000 people died during the civil war. Moreover, quarter of population left the country.

For the time being, people in Lebanon are trying to recover the damages in the country's economy and forget the old fight between them. As a result of that, you can see many construction works are going in Beirut and there are a lot of foreign investments in the country. Moreover, Muslim and Christian are mixing together and they practicing the social life together. Furthermore, foreign armies left the country. Lebanon is attractive destination for many European and Arabic tourist. Although there were a lot of recoveries in Lebanon, there are still problems facing the normal life. Expensive cost of living and concentration of wealth caused many young people to leave the country.

Bibliography:

"Eye on Lebanon." Global Eye. Royal Geographic Society. 9 Feb. 2009 .

Lebanon war 1975-1990

this film show pictures taken in Lebanon War 1975 - 1990 (Beirut & Suburbs)

Voice thread for Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

Inconvenient Truth is a movie that talks about global warming. It is presented by Al Gore “the vice president under Clinton”. He shared a noble peace prize in 2007with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In this film Al Gore will talk about the greenhouse effect on global warming.
Al Gore shows in his presentation the relation between the increase of the planet temperature and the concentration of the CO2 in the air.

Al Gore emphasizes that one of the consequences of the increase in the ocean temperature is strong stomps can be generated such as Hurricanes Jean, Ivan and Katrina. Moreover, he added that the feedback cycle causes the ice on both pole to melt which can increase the sea levels worldwide up to 20 feet. As result, lands like Beijing, The Netherlands, Bangladesh, Florida and San Francisco will be covered by sea water and millions of people will be homeless. Furthermore, there will be serious shortage in drinking water. As 40% of which flow through rivers and spring systems that produced by the melted water coming off the glaciers. Also, dissertation will increase and more green land will disappear and there will be an expanding in infection diseases range.

At the end of his presentation, he suggest that more efficient power source, using renewable technology energy source, carbon capture, Higher mileage cars and other transport efficiency can reduce the CO2 in the air significantly. He added that the solutions are in our hand but we have to make it happen.

Global Warming 2

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Global Warming 2

Global warming is the increase of green gases around the earth that traps more solar energy which causes an increase of the earth’s temperature.
Light comes from the sun and warms the land, water, and air which rise up toward the sky. The greenhouse effect in moderation has some positive effects. Gases in the Earth's atmosphere trap some of that heat and prevent it from escaping into space. This heat trap keeps the ground, oceans and air at fairly stable, predictable temperatures warm enough to allow thousands of plant and animal species and humans to thrive.
The main cause of the global warming is the increase of the dependence in using fossil fuel to produce energy, which causes increasing in Carbon emission to the atmosphere. Moreover, methane and nitrous oxide gases are another source of harmful gases. These gases are manly produced by cars, factories and plan. With a continued increase in CO2 levels there may be negative consequences. The ice in both poles may melt and lead to make the sea water covering populated islands. Moreover, turbulence to the climatic condition on the earth which lead more tornados ,hurricanes, floods and desertification.

Carbon Footprint

Carbon footprint is the measure of total green house gases emitted by an individual. The result of this calculation will tell you what your equivalent number of earth you are using during a specific period of time (Wiktionary, 2009).
I visited one of the environmental awareness which is footprint.wwf.org.uk and I answered the questions which is been asked by the web site about the type of carbon emission device that I’m using and the duration.
My result was 2.94 planets. Comparing my Carbon footprint with my classmate, I found that I have the highest Earth equivalent among the other. In contrast, the lowest result was for Abdulla Al-Jabir and he got 2.03 planets. The second lowest result was for Faris when he got 2.18 planets. Whereas the average foot prints for Mohamed and Mubarak were 2.475 planets (Footprint, 2009).
Each person in UAE produces 32.28 tons of CO2. Comparing UAE with other country in the gulf region, it has the third highest CO2 emitted per person. Whereas the highest amount of CO2 emitted per person is 64.14 tons in Qatar followed by 38.26 tons Kuwait. In addition, in china each person produces 3.7 tons .This because each Chinese can’t have individual car (Bleja, 2009).
What makes people getting highest footprint is because their life style. Many people use individual instead of public transportation like buses. Moreover, consuming electricity for long time and not using more efficient electrical devices in the house another factor for increasing the carbon emission. Therefore, using double glazing, draught proofing, using more efficient electric devises and encouraging people to travel by the public transportations such as buses will be helpful in reducing the carbon emission (Leo, 2006).

Bibliography:
"Carbon footprint." Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 11 Mar. 2009. Wikipedia.com. 15 Apr. 2009 .
WWF Footprint Calculator. 2009. WWF. 15 Apr. 2009 .
Leo, Peter. "How you can reduce carbon emissions." Post-Gazette NOW. 1 Dec. 2006. Post-Gazette. 15 Apr. 2009 .
Bleja, David. Breathing earth. David Bleja. 16 Apr. 2009 .

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a short film that hosted by Annie Leonard. She is an expert in international sustainability and environmental health issues. This film illustrate the side effect our production consumption patterns and how it play a rule on the real life and climate change. Moreover, it discusses the danger of the increase in the consumption of the natural resources and how it is affecting our life on the earth.

Annie indicated that the process used to define our economy today is extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. This linear system of production need infinite of natural resources. As a result, we are running out of resources and especially in the last decade, 1/3 of the world's resource base has been consumed. Annie added, the increase in the natural resource consumption is one of the consequences of the lifestyle that leaded peoples to buy unnecessary items just to meet the tradition of others. The more significant issues in the increase in manufacturing goods is deemed it as one of the factors of the global warming because the process of making them causes carbon emission.

Annie emphasized that Most of stuffs that we buy are contain alot of toxic chemicals. As a result, consumer and factory’s employees are exposed to this massive amount of chemical. Moreover, the productive economy is designed to buying a way of life what make it worse is only one percent of goods in the market can be used for more than si x month. Producer achieve his high selling range by providing stuff with low price, the fact behind this is that the producer attempts for their achievement by effecting poor people's health and consumes their health and the natural resource that their countries have.

There is a big concern on the short life of goods because there will be large amount of them will be Dumped in the trash bin . The current disposal process is basically causes pollution to the planet’s air, land and water. Moreover, the burning of good that contain toxic chemical will emit toxic gas to the atmosphere. Although recycling can help reducing the waste’s amount, not all of the good can be recycled and the amount of good is upstream in production process are more.

Annie ended the filme when she saied Shopping is essential for everybody because it’s the way they can provide their life requirement like food clothes and Home Furniture. However, the danger of using these goods will affect us and our planet. Therefore, people individually and governments should be strict about goods that contains toxic chemical or it is designed to use for short time by creating rules to prohibit such goods. Moreover we should spend our money on things that worth and really required.

In my opinion , In my opinion I agree with Annie and I understand how danger is the increase in the amount garbage and wasting the planet natural resources to our life. Therefore buying less may be the best option of all. this will help reducing the pollution, the waste and the global warming.

Bibliography:
Leonard, Annie. "The Story of Stuff." The story of Stuff. Creative Commons Attribution. 23 Apr. 2009 .

to see the Story of Stuff film you can click on the picture down.

Cool Cities

Although the industrial development which leaded the economy to be revival, recently the entire planet faced environmental to main problems such as Rise in population and traffic delay. As a result, these caused the increase in energy consumption which leads to emitting more CO2. Moreover, 90% of the co2 emission to the air comes from building and transportation (Cool City).
The Cool city video emphasize that with the current carbon emission, eventually we need to have another planet to live on. Unfortunately, we can’t replace our planet. Therefore, we should reduce the carbon emission to the air by half (Cool City).
Bradley Hope of the Nation Newspaper considered building a cool city in UAE is a good idea. Because the temperature rises in the summer up to 5o Co and the humidity reaches 97%, people consume a lot of energy to cool down their apartments (Bradley, 2008). The project for building a cool city is designed by a Japanese company called Sustainable Development Consortium of Japan. The video added that the cool city is a proposed modern city. It has self contain cool city network. It has a circle shape with 1 km radius. It consists of public, residential, culture and resort zones. These areas are compactly arrange so it easily accessible on foot. There are three way for transportation among the city and they are cars, solar ships and train Furthermore, it has power plant farm and Jatropha Forrest to prevent sand. There are several techniques use to reduce the heat in the city such as self contain cooling network, roof membrane and using recycled cool air (Cool City).
In my opinion, by good management in consuming fuel, and reducing CO2 emission can overcome the consequences of the industrial revolution. The cool cities can play the role in solving the problem of global warming by reducing carbon emission and allowing people living comfortably.

Bibliography:
Cool City. Sustainable Development Consortium of Japan. 7 May 2009 .
Hope, Bradley. "Cool ideas to beat the heat - The National Newspaper." Home Page - The National Newspaper. 05 May 2008. The Nation Newspaper. 7 May 2009 .

Inconvenient Truth Movie's Review

An inconvenient Truth is a documentary movie that discuss about the consequences of the global warming. It made people agrees or strongly disagrees with Al Gore’s Ideas. In this report I will paraphrase two different reviews. Finally, I will conclude my report with the idea that I have.
Ian Forbes was disappointed because of the quarter of the time he spends in listening to Gore’s past family, politics and schooling instead of listening to advices which encourage people to change polluting ways. He emphasizes that humans are messing with the planet. However, the effects of pollution and how it is contributing to climate changes was clear to him, so no need for such a film to make him feel sleepy while he was watching. Furthermore, Forbes alludes to the lack of the credibility of the sources that included in the documentary .This is when Al Gore used to compare two pictures of Mt. Kilimanjaro fifty years ago and another from ten year. However both pictures are not taken in the same month (Forbes, 2006).
On other hand, Al phonso Sirtle said what makes this documentary unique and well worth the watch is the combination of scientific proof and passion. Sirtle added that Al Gore used sources graphs, scanned document and the computer generated images to explain to explain the problem to observer the numbers of documentaries that talk about the global worming have increased recently. However, Al phonso Sirtle implies none of them are supported by proof as Inconvenient Truth (Sirtle, 2006).

In my idea, we should Taken into account the information provided by such a documentary to overcome the crisis we are facing. No matter how bad is the presenting technique that Al Gore did, an inconvenient Truth worth everyone to watch for the purpose for which it transcends.
Bibliography:-
Forbes, Ian. "An Inconvenient Truth » The Sobering Conclusion." The Sobering Conclusion. 17 June 2006. Word Press. 06 Apr. 2009 .

Sirtle, Alphonso. "An Inconvenient Truth Movie Review." Article Click. 01 Apr. 2006. Article Click. 06 Apr. 2009 .

A problem Solution of the Global Warming

In the last decades many efforts and suggestions have been made to overcome the rises of the earth temperature. However, the earth temperature and the CO2 emission are higher than any time before. In this report I will write about a group of solution that can be applied without any affect to the economical growth.
The industrialization growth and the life style are required high source of energy. Therefore, the dependence on fossil fuel has been increased in last decades. That leaded to more CO2 to be emitted to the atmosphere which cases to trap more heat and rises the earth temperature. The real impact of the earth warming are floods, volcanoes and ice melting which are leading people to be homeless. Moreover, shortages in the drinking water will be acquired (Solution to Global Warming).
The alternative powers like wind, solar and nuclear cane take a place in reducing this dependence on such fuel. However, they show more problem than they solves. Moreover, these types of energies are expensive and we have to find a solution that goes hand to hand with the economic growth (Solution To Global Warming).
Carbon Offsetting is a principal that Kyoto Protocol is based on. Carbon Offsetting means if a factory is producing 100 tons of CO2 each year, they have to offset this pollution by investing in green projects or buying carbon credit equivalent to 100 tons of CO2. The good thing in offsetting is that the carbon emission can be balanced and maintained. If we progress more, the carbon level could be decreased. Moreover, offsetting does not have to be in the same place where is the carbon is emitted, it can be where it is financially cheaper, so nation like Asia and Africa are bigger gainer by growing their economy and reduce their own carbon emission by hosting such project (Solution To Global Warming).
Stimulate phytoplankton bloom is another solution to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Many researchers have been done by A German research ship and the national oceanography center in the Southern Ocean to see the impact of iron fertilization on the blooms of plankton. This done by releasing tones of iron sulphate over the sea water. The result they came up with is plankton bloom that form on the sea level can absorb carbon dioxide from the sea water and the atmosphere. Some scientists believe this can boost a natural carbon where it stored for a long time in the seafloor sediment ( Connor, 2009).
The Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen has suggested to inject sulphate particles into the atmosphere. This partial act as a reflective surface for incoming sunlight, producing a cooling effect to the earth. What make it true is in 1991 the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, on Luzon Island in Philippine released amount of suphate particles into the global atmosphere which causes the earth temperate to be cooled by 0.5C0.However, the side effect of sulphate injection is acid rain ( Connor, 2009).
The most practical solution for the global warming is pumping the CO2 into the earth. The basic science of CO2 is well established so called flue gas. Pollutants that come from smokestacks are gathered in a cylindrical column and react with a chemical that bind the CO2 in a stable mixture at normal temperature. The pure CO2 gas is then produced by heating the mixture .Compressed CO2 gas is used in the oil industry to force the oil out of declining field. in this process the CO2 will be stored safely and cleanly. Moreover, CO2 gas is sprayed on stored grain as a natural pesticide (Turner, 2002).
In my opinion, I think that the best solution to slow down the process of global warming is to pump CO2 into the earth. I choose this solution because it’s the most realistic solution among the others. In addition, this solution is already applied in the field of oil. Although the number of suggestions and solutions for the problem of global warming, initiative from the government needs to be provided.
Bibliography:
"Solution To Global Warming." Carbonfreezone. 2008. CarbonFreeZone. 26 May 2009 .
Connor, Steve. "The Big Question: Is there a technological solution to the problem of global warming? - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent." Independent.co.uk. 29 Jan. 2009. Independent News & Media. 26 May 2009 .
Turner, Chris. "Looking to Bury Greenhouse Gases." Time International 2002: 84. Student Resorce Center Gold. ADMC, Abu Dhabi. 15 May 2009 .

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