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about the glaciers in the North Pole. This was an important task as it could indicate about global warming
and climate change that’s happened in recent years.
“We found the glaciers, I see they are a lot smaller compared to the past, let’s come closer and get more
data about these glaciers.” shouted one of the explorers.
“I strongly suggest that the glaciers are much smaller than they were twenty years ago.”
“I am recording this data, anymore you want to suggest?”
“No.”
“I think the glaciers are just one prospect, we should do this task completely, I comment that we
should have a look at other places around the North Pole.”
The explorers took some pictures of the glacier and walked around to the other places in the North
Pole.
“I used the radar and found out that there were mammoth skeletons underneath this area … just under
the ice”
“I suggest there will also be a huge amount of methane surround the skeletons, if the ice melts, the
mammoth skeletons will be brought to light, a large amount of methane will also be released, it would
speed up the greenhouse effect.”
“We should write a report about this.”
“What are the factors of global warming?”
“Coal burning in the coal power plant, Cars, loggings...”
“Something really add insult to the injury is that one football pitch’s area of the rainforest is lost every
second.”
After the expeditions, the team wrote a report about global warming, The article was sent to the
environmental department of the Government of Guangdong Province.
“Today, the purpose of calling you all up here is to talk about the problems of coal power plant. You
all know that the coal power plant have the emission of greenhouse gas problem. So we need to discuss
whether or not to replace the coal power plants with nuclear power plants.”
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In the winter year 2030, a new environmentally friendly company is established in Hong Kong, the major
shareholder is called Della. Due to the high housing prices in Hong Kong's urban area, Della choose to stay
in a rural area, with the flying taxi; he can arrive to the company in less than half an hour. His company is
called Della’s Smart, this company is used to produce high-caliber conference tablets. The main difference
between his company’s product is that this conference tablet allow others to plug in a device called Della’s
Smart Wireless Screen Sharer, and the Della’s Smart smart TV will have a pop-up window to show that
the Della’s Smart TV has got computer’s information, projecting screen will be much easier with this
company’s conference tablet. With this company, the HDMI cable is almost an antique in the Greater Bay
area. The Della’s Smart conference tablet is also environmentally friendly, which only use 15W of
electricity for few hours conference.
There are some issues in The Greater Bay Area. There is a communique from the observatory that the
average temperature in the winter time is above 30 degree celsius.
There are some evidence to show higher temperatures in the winter, one of them is that it is a dime and a
dozen for people and students to wear shorts in the primitively cold winter.
One day, in a Global Perspectives class in an International school, a student searches about
environmentally friendly topics for his individual report. The student accidentally finds essays about the
glaciers becoming smaller.
This essay is written by the China expedition team. A few days earlier, China’s expedition team has
gone to the North Pole again and taken some more pictures and data. After they come back, they compare
the pictures of the glaciers they took 20 years ago. They quickly found out that global warming is becoming
more serious. They wrote their essays about this and posted it online in order to raise people’s awareness.
The Chinese Government pays close attention to this article. They all know that if the ice glaciers melt
in the North Pole, this will raise the sea level, which would menace the coastal cities of the Greater Bay
Area