Phil and Sue Fight Global Warming

About Phil and Sue

Phil and Sue are two younger soccer players who live in Arizona. They live in Maricopa County. One day Phil went outdoor in November. In November it gets cool in Arizona. But nowadays it became nonetheless particularly warm. He desired to play out of doors with Sue. Sue lived round the corner. They had been quality pals. They performed at the identical soccer team. They had continually lived round the corner to each other. They did everything together. They advised every different secrets and techniques. They fought collectively while a awful child entering into the neighborhood. Joe turned into his name,. He tried to beat up Sue. Together Phil and Sue beat up the bully and after this Joe left them on my own.

Phil and Sue loved college. They had been inside the equal room. But they did no longer take a seat subsequent to every different., They talked an excessive amount of and got into trouble. So the teacher needed to flow them to the opposite corners of the room.

But they still controlled to get into trouble at recess collectively.

That day it became a totally warm at recess time. The instructor said they could not exit to recess. There turned into a warmness advisory. Phil became disenchanted approximately now not getting to play out of doors. "What is a warmth advisory"? Sue got here over. "Let's use the internet at the same time as we're interior for recess". They went to Mrs. Blake and requested her if they could go online.

Mrs. Blake - Yes, move ahead. What are you looking for?

Phil - We want to discover what a "warmness advisory" is.
As soon because the seek engine posted the answers a page on Global Warming popped up.
Sue - What is international warming?
Phil - I heard my Dad speaking approximately it. We're all going to dissipate. The ice will soften in Antarctica and the Arctic. The waters will cowl all of the United States.
Sue - We'll should develop fins and swim in the sea. Maybe your parents will purchase that houseboat they pointed out.
Phil - Joe would suit right in. He looks as if a fish already.
Sue - Shhh. Here comes Mrs. Blake. She'll get us for talking too loud.
Mrs. Blake - What is going on? I can pay attention you all the manner across the room. I must by no means have let the two of you get collectively.
Sue - I'm sorry Mrs. Blake. But it won't be counted besides. Soon we're going to all be residing inside the sea and swimming all over while the earth heats up. Global warming is going to flood the entire USA.
Mrs. Blake - What are you talking about?
Phil - It's known as global warming. We'll by no means be capable of go out to recess again.
Mrs. Blake - I think because you men recognise a lot approximately this, I'm assigning you to prepare a Special Report on international warming. You can gift it to the magnificence in two weeks (SHE WALKS AWAY).
Sue - You and your big mouth.
Phil - You started out it.
Sue - No, you began it.
Mrs. Blake (over her shoulder) I don't care who started out it. You can't stay far from every different. Well now you're going to finish it collectively.
Phil and Sue regarded every different and threw up their arms.
Phil and Sue - Let's do it!
Phil and Sue commenced doing the studies. After more than one days they talked to Mrs. Blake.
Sue - This is actually frightening. We are destroying our Earth. We are surely doing a process on ourselves. We are making the arena hotter.
Phil - We are cutting down all of the forests. We are polluting the air and the water.
Sue - We need to do something.
Mrs. Blake - What do you suggest?
Sue -We are making the earth warmer and hotter. We are slicing down the trees. Trees are in which we get our oxygen. We are building increasingly homes right here in Maricopa county. We are covering the soil over with concrete.
Phil -We are polluting our air and those are becoming unwell. Some houses make humans sick. There are even human beings who've to stay out of doors. They can not even go in the church.
Sue - Some humans say that when we visit football exercise in our SUV, we're adding to worldwide warming.
Phil - Yeah, they say that football moms are one of the fundamental causes of global warming. How can that be? It is best eight blocks to football practice from our house. Driving eight blocks can not upload to international warming.
Sue - The hassle is there are so many youngsters gambling soccer within the USA. Did you know that there are over 17,000,000 children gambling soccer in the USA. That means each day or week there are extra than 17,000,000 journeys to soccer exercise. And a few groups practice  or three instances according to week. And then there are the video games.
Phil - I am now not going to give up soccer. I love it. Someday I will play inside the World Cup.
Sue - I am a better participant than you. I scored  goals final week.
Phil - Girls can not be within the World Cup.
Sue - The American womens group gained the World Cup in 1998. They men's group changed into way down. Girls are better soccer gamers than guys,
Phil - Well. It's soccer moms that drive kids to football. That means soccer moms are inflicting worldwide warming.
Mrs. Blake - Sounds severe. But I suppose you need greater research. Make an intensive document. Then we will see what we will do.
Sue - We want to first do greater studies. We want to ensure what we are telling the magnificence is proper. They we want to do more. We want to make the file. Then I idea we ought to make up a internet site and positioned what we study on the Internet.
Mrs. Blake - Wait until you get all of the data. Then we will determine what to do. The internet site can be something we will all contribute to.
Phil and Sue Go To Work
Two weeks of difficult work observed. They went to the library, even the Department of Environmental satisfactory and the Environmental Protection corporation downtown in Phoenix. They surfed the Internet. They even located a few lesson plans for teachers .
Sue- Let's write a lesson plan. And we'll make our presentation in the shape of a lesson.
Phil - That's a tremendous concept. We'll educate a lesson just like Mrs. Blake could.
Sue- Shouldn't we tell her what we're going to do? She thinks we are going to simply get up and speak.
Phil - She stated to record what we found. She failed to say the way to record it. We'll make handouts and charts much like she does.
Sue - Right, and we'll make a test and hand out fill-ins just like a class.
Phil - This goes to be exquisite.
The  worked for hours. They planned the lesson. What they might say . They rehearsed giving the lesson. The organized the handouts. They prepared and took the quiz they developed themselves They prepared a poster like one of the one that they had of their class he calls.
THE GREAT DAY COMES
Mrs. Blake - Today  of our students are going to make a presentation of our elegance file called "worldwide warming" to the magnificence.
Sue unrolled the poster and hung it over the chalkboard.
Phil - Today we are going to educate a category on Global warming. Sue will bypass out your study packet. Make certain you follow them as we present our lesson.
Mrs. Blake - Your lesson?
Sue - Yes, Maam.
Phil - Class, nowadays we are going to learn about a totally vital challenge. It's known as global warming. Take a look at your observe packet. The first sheet has a few definitions.
Let's study them
1. Worldwide warming
2. Greenhouse gases
three. Carbon emissions
four. Carbon sink
5. Carbon garage
6. Carbon sequestration
7. Climate alternate
8. Greenhouse impact
9. Carbon dioxide
10. Oxygen
eleven. Air pollution
12. Photosynthesis
13. SUV
14. Soccer Mom
15. Tree planting
16. Cloud cowl
Let's take a look at them. Take them home and study them later.
Phil - check study sheet One - The carbon cycle -be aware how it works
Carbon dioxide is given off by way of animals. Plants in particular trees take inside the carbon dioxide fuel and separate it thru photosynthesis. The daylight is available in and adjustments it into carbon, water and oxygen. Carbon paperwork the food that we devour.
Sue- Notice the cloud layer above the earth. When the solar rays come to the earth they keep going through the air. Then when they hit the earth they bounce back. When the sky at night is apparent and there are not any clouds, the rays bounce back, this is why it can be very warm within the desolate tract in the course of the day and really cool at night time. That is why it's also warmer when there's cloud cowl. The clouds hold the solar rays from burning off and it warms the Earth.
Phil - the more gases like carbon dioxide we put into the air the thicker the gases get, the greater they preserve in the solar's rays. That way when there's more pollution from carbon dioxide and other air polluting gases in the air -the atmosphere holds greater warmness in. That the identical way a greenhouse paintings. The rays come and can not get lower back out.
Julio - (holds up his hand) Why cannot they bounce back out the manner they got here in? They got here in via the gases?
Sue - They hit the earth. The rays have a whole lot of electricity once they hit the earth. Some of the strength remains inside the earth. When the rays get better they're no longer as strong.
Phil - And recall we studied about gravity. The rays come to the earth via gravity as it pulls them down. But when they are trying to bounce back they are going in opposition to gravity. So they need to work tougher and that they have already misplaced a part of their power,
Sue - So the greater gases there are inside the air, the extra heat is stored on our earth.
Paul - Where do these gases come from and why is this occurring now?
Sue - Lots of things have passed off in the ultimate  hundred years. More and greater people. There at the moment are 6 billion human beings. More and greater motors. Gas costs are decrease so people are using more. An increasing number of air pollution from factories.
Phil - And the worst matters is we are reducing down all the forests that took carbon from the air and that wiped clean the air earlier than. And football mothers are taking 17,000,000 children to soccer exercise in SUVs each week. Do any of you play soccer? Raise your palms.
Almost each infant in the room raises their fingers.
Sue - You simply need accountable it on football and soccer moms.
Phil - Together all this stuff imply fewer trees, extra gases within the environment, more carbon emissions, and it's going to all cause the greenhouse impact and in the end worldwide warming and then the melting of the ice in Antarctica and the Polar ice. It's all happening. The earth is one you know.
Sue - The bushes are the lungs of the Earth. Trees easy up the carbon dioxide and flip it into oxygen and carbohydrates for food. But we're placing a lot carbon dioxide and different gases into the air on the identical time we are slicing so many trees.
Phil - And we're paving over farmland. We are destroying regions wherein carbon is saved by way of plant and the soil. At the same time increasingly more factories are giving off more and more gases. Its referred to as a vicious cycle.
Jane - So what is going to take place to us? And to the earth? If it receives any warmer we can not live in Arizona. Last yr it were given up to one hundred fifteen stages.
Sue - Take a have a look at the concept sheet we've. From what we have informed you, we need you to answer these questions. Feel loose to provide your personal reviews as well.

1. What is worldwide warming?
2. How warm is the earth getting?
3. Will the ice melts and what do you observed will manifest?
Four. Does this have whatever to do with he ozone layer?
Five, What will happen if the ice melts?
6. What will international warming imply to the weather?
7. What are the things we each of us is doing that reason worldwide warming?
8. What could we do to stop worldwide warming?
9. We all play football. What can we do to offset the worldwide warming resulting from all those journeys to football exercise?

TIME FOR QUESTIONS

Sue - Does all and sundry have any questions?
Pete - Yeah my dad say the worldwide warming stuff is all nonsense. Its all a few individuals who need to forestall progress. You're just a bunch of ecofreaks.
Sue - Let me show you a chart. See how lots gasoline is in the atmosphere considering 1700. It's almost double and gases can be dangerous. One kind of carbon gases called carbon monoxide does not hassle you within the outdoor and in small portions. But if you are in a near area with lot of it can kill you.
Pete - That's now not the identical factor.
Phil - No one know what is going to happen if we have extra gases in the air. The question is what if it does affect us? We can't wait until it happens to mention "we should have achieved something earlier - why failed to we concentrate".
Andrea - But what are we able to do? We're simply children. And maybe it clearly is not going to affect us.
Sue -My dad sells coverage. The folks who buy it do not know for sure they will want it. They don't want to get unwell or die. But they purchase coverage to protect their households simply in case. That way if something terrible takes place, they may be blanketed. So just in case international warming does hurt our earth, we need to shield ourselves beforehand of time. It's like flood coverage.
Phil -And simply due to the fact we are "simply children" doesn't mean we cannot do some thing., Kids have plenty of electricity to do matters. We should shape a membership., We can speak to different youngsters. We can talk to our parents. I can constantly get my Mom to do anything I actually need.
Sandra - We are all in soccer. Is there something we will do?
Sam - But nevertheless. We aren't cutting down the rain forests here in Arizona. We don't even have any rain forests. And most of the factories are about est. How are we able to do whatever right here in Arizona that would prevent international warming.
Phil - The first issue we ought to do is see that we're dwelling in one world The air circulates over the complete planet. When the weather changes off South America it makes it our climate reacts right here in the United States. The hurricanes that come to the Caribbean all come off the coast of Africa. We are all residing at the same planet. What we do to the air in Arizona influences the air in Japan or in Brazil. And the weather comes from the air.
Sue - We discovered lots about carbon emissions while we were doing our research. Carbon emission is the carbon dioxide we are placing into the air. That is referred to as emitting carbon. To emit approach to send out, launch or provide off. Like when we breathe, we emit carbon dioxide into the air. When we run our automobiles , we emit carbon dioxide. When we run our factories to make products, we emit carbon dioxide. When we burn something we reason carbon dioxide to be emitted.
Phil - So if we will find a way to stroll or ride a bicycle instead of driving our automobile we still emit carbon dioxide, but masses less. Driving in carpools with masses of humans approach we emit less gas than while every people drives on my own. And now they are making motors that emit much less carbon dioxide.
Phil - Well, here inside the valley there are an increasing number of people each day. More and more houses manner increasingly more automobiles. So we need to discover any other way.
Sue - Well perhaps we can not stop human beings from emitting carbon dioxide inside the air. That will be the high-quality way. But my Dad stated sometimes you cannot save you something. But you can do some thing when you see it going on. Maybe we cannot forestall extra human beings from coming to Maricopa County. Maybe we cannot stop humans from driving longer and making greater journeys. Maybe we cannot forestall people from setting carbon dioxide inside the air. But there's a manner to take it proper again out. We can plant timber.
Janie - You realize I turned into at the internet searching out a soccer camp this summer time. There is a program in Honduras referred to as the Honduras Youth Soccer Program. They plant bushes to offset worldwide warming from soccer mos inside the USA.
Sue - Really? Tell me greater about it.
Janie - I am trying to get my mother to send me to Honduras to that camp this summer season. They have tournaments and camps and all of them plant bushes with the children from Honduras. In addition to playing football, they've trips to all kinds of cool places in the mountains. It is cool there all of the time due to the fact its over 5000 fet excessive. There are pine timber everywhere. And the youngsters from there could be planting trees with American youngsters.
Sue - Sounds cool and lots of fun. And planting timber is the first-rate way to offset carbon emission.
Janie - And if you can't tour to Honduras you can still plant timber. They have a software wherein if you donate your vintage soccer tools - just like the antique cleats or uniforms to your storage or closet, the kids in Honduras will plant the timber for you. You simply must send the stuff to Soccer for Life, Inc in Arizona. You get so many trees planted relying on how a great deal gear you ship. And they will send you a set kit to use to acquire from other kids to your football membership or group.
Sue - Do you've got greater data on that program? Where did you find out approximately it?
Janie - On the internet. I published off the pages. I'll show you after magnificence. It has the URL.
Sue - It sounds simply extremely good. Trees are so crucial for combating worldwide warming. Those who want to should go to the camps in Honduras and those who cannot ought to still help plant timber. Trees that keep carbon and hold it out of the surroundings.
Phil - This is right. Every tree shops carbon dioxide into the plant. You see, the way the vegetation grow is to take in carbon dioxide and the usage of it in making food by using photosynthesis. The mild comes in, breaks the carbon dioxide intocarbon and oxygen. The oxygen goes back into the air to assist us all stay.
Sue - Without plant life generating oxygen from carbon dioxide, no existence as we realize it is able to exist on our earth. The manner the tree help further, is the carbon produced by using photosynthesis is then saved within the frame of the plant or trunk of the tree.
Phil - That means it is sequestered so it can't have interaction with the oxygen in the air to create extra carbon dioxide. That is why forests are known as carbon sinks. The carbon is saved inside the trunk and it's miles like it's far sunk down into the tree so it can not form gases inside the air.
Sue - Plants and animals couldn't stay without bushes. Planting bushes additionally clear the air of air pollutants. Trees motive rainfall by way of accomplishing their root deep down to get what is referred to as ground water. By attaining roots manner down in the floor the roots can carry the water up. Remember whilst we went tenting. We used kerosene lanterns. The material or wick reached down within the bottom of the lamp in which the kerosene was. The wick brought the kerosene up to where it can burn and supply us mild. The tree is like a wick. The roots reach down into the floor, deep down and brings water up similar to the lamp brings up the kerosene.
Phil - Right you know things like to go from wherein there's extra of a liquid to wherein there may be much less. So the water within the ground is going to the pinnacle of the tree into the air wherein there may be less water. When the bushes brings the water up, it makes use of it to chill off the tree. And it cools off the tree the identical manner we cool off at the beach. The water dries up by means of going off into the air. And we cool off when that occurs. The tree cools its go away the identical way. And the water is going into the air.
Sue - Without water inside the air, you cannot have rain. That's why in places where they reduce down all the trees, the rain stops falling. There is not any water being brought up from deep within the floor to crumple as rain.
Phil - And trees do greater than that. Air is cooler within the colour so timber make your backyard and house cooler. Because there is extra moisture it feels cooler. Trees can do a lot to take carbon dioxide out of the air and cool our groups.
Barry - If trees are so good, why will we keep cutting them down? If we want the rainforest, why do people maintain cutting them down. And besides that is taking place manner away someplace. It doesn't depend to us right here in Arizona. Let them reduce down the rainforest, it doesn't have an effect on us.
Sue - Take a take a look at these two pix of our earth and how the air circulates. Can't you spot the air is going all around the earth. Air we breathe out in Arizona can end up over Brazil. I examine that remaining century a volcano known as Krakatoa erupted and those ought to rarely see for five years all over the United States. It induced crop disasters in our Midwest. Did you recognize that when the meteorite got here that destroyed the dinosaurs, the sun did no longer shine for 5 years? All over the earth from one meteor fall. What occurs anywhere in the air influences the whole earth's air.
Phil - Remember the air movement is what finally ends up as our climate. Hurricanes begin off the coast of Africa after which go to the Caribbean. Our earth has one big ecosystem. The air flow into all around the global.
Janie - So if we plant a tree in Honduras, it can affect the air right here in Arizona or in Brazil or anywhere inside the global. If they cut down the rainforest, meaning less oxygen for us here in Arizona. If we burn forests in California, the whole earth's air turns into polluted. There had been a variety of woodland fires in Borneo and Indonesia ultimate year. The smoke traveled a long methods. Our complete earth is one planet. So if we plant a tree right here in Arizona, it may have an effect on international warming.
Sue - Guys, there are lots of factors we will do if we don't want to change our climate. And we don't have lost of time. We study one paper approximately how the climate changed from the remaining ice age in 16 years. Just 16 years. And the ice melted at the poles. We've got to get began doing some thing about this.
Phil - Think approximately how hot it's miles here in Arizona here in July. We don't want it to get any warmer. Arizona is warm enough now. Kids still have time to make a difference.
Sue - Kids have achieved lots matters to help the environment. Some kids recycle, Some youngsters choose up clutter and easy up communities. Some children plant wildflowers.
Phil - My Dad is in Ducks Unlimited. They make places and land top for ducks. He and his pals love duck hunting. So they paintings to make the vicinity higher for geese. Last year we had a Father-Son workday. Dads in Ducks Unlimited, they name it DU, camped out overnight with their sons and we labored in cleansing out stream beds. We planted trees, made duck blinds. The kids worked similar to the grownups. We also planted shrubs. We had a laugh and we helped a lot.
Andrea - I bought Girl Scout cookies in with our entire troop. We used the money to assist construct more nature trails on our scout campground.
Barry - I'm in Boy Scouts final 12 months we planted masses of bushes and shrubs andmade wildflower gardens at our camp.
Nancy - Our Sunday School elegance held a vehicle wash to raise cash for family from Kosovo.
Pete - Our church kids group turned into the host for a assembly with at-hazard youngsters from the inner town. We did the entirety - we made the sandwiches, decorate the room, made vicinity mats. And we raised the cash to maintain the assembly with the aid of making crafts and promoting them. And we did all the cleanup after the assembly.
Sue - Kids can do matters. There are masses of things we will do to halt international warming.
We'll cease this magnificence with a dialogue of factors children can do to halt worldwide warming. What we will do is whole the subsequent shape. It is look at sheet # five.

THINGS I THINK KIDS CAN DO TO HALT GLOBAL WARMING

Let read it aloud and then I need you men to vote on each one. If you suspect a child or a organizations of youngsters may want to try this Alone may want to do with adults, or couldn't do. We will vote on each one.

Print this text off after which put various next to each issue depending on what you observed

1. A Kid Or A Group Of Kids Could Do This Alone
2. A Kid Or A Group Of Kids Could Do This With Adults
three. A Kid Or A Group Of Kids Could Not Do This

1. Learn greater about Global warming through
a) going to the library and looking it up in the card catalog
b) cross at the internet and search for the following terms

global warming
greenhouse gases
carbon emissions
carbon sink
carbon storage
carbon sequestration
climate exchange
greenhouse effect
heat advisory
polar ice soften
carbon dioxide
oxygen
air pollution
greenhouse effect
photosynthesis

2. Talk to your instructor and see if she can permit you to make a presentation of worldwide warming to your magnificence

three. Talk to your instructor approximately letting you do a presentation in the college
assembly or program

four. Ask your instructor in case your institution can write a situation approximately what occurs while the earth receives hotter

five. Ask you instructor if you could participate in a school meeting via doing something with international warming

5. Prepare your very own easy FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions Sheet) on Global warming

7. Talk on your family approximately international warming

8. Ask your Sunday faculty educate if you may speak about Global warming and stewardship of the earth

nine. Ask your pastor if you may plant a tree to your churchyard

10. Find out in case your school will assist you to plant a tree on the college grounds

11. See in case your church will will let you plant a tree

12. Call the Audubon society and spot if there's a place you or your classcan plant a tree

13. See if you could collect seeds from the tree son your school ground or a nearby park and develop them up in cups to plant

14. Ask your parents to head bicycling with you on the weekend in place of going inside the automobile

15. Ask your dad and mom to carpool

16. Ask your dad and mom to sponsor a tree to be planted remote places

17. Get together with kids in your magnificence and sponsor a grove of bushes in Honduras.

18. Find out how many bushes at your faculty and degree them for the amount of carbon being saved together with your instructors help

19. Start up your personal tree nursery, can work together with your church, faculty scout troop or other institution. Germinate the seeds in paper cup. Then transplant hem into larger cups. When they're massive sufficient ask your dad and mom or instructor to help you plant them

20. Hold a tree for existence" sales space at your nearby church bazaar or different event. Give out flyers and facts on worldwide warming and unfastened seeds from local parks of tree seeds

21. Talk to the city council about road trees

22. Send in letters to the editor approximately timber and international warming

23. Talk to other youngsters approximately saving their earth

24. Talk for your church or pastor about stewardship or the Restoring Creation Movement which is ecumenical

25. Go To Google and look up Global Warming

26. After you advantage enough knowhow placed your own worldwide warming internet site up. Then expand your own net method to allow others realize approximately international warming.

27. Find out approximately the Phil and Sue Art Contest where you win prizes for illustrating the Phil and Sue Play Soccer and Fight Global Warming tale.

Kids are the important thing to the future and our major weapon towards global warming. Begin today to increase your personal task to combat worldwide warming.