Description Of Hurricane Sandy And Global Climate Change

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PLANET EARTH
Super Storm Sandy
& Global Climate Change (GCC)

Sarrah Won - ssw64
4/28/2014

Description of Hurricane Sandy and its effect on my surroundings and personal life. Along with an explanation and debate on the topic of “Global Climate Change” and the possible actions to be taken to decrease the negative effects of it in our future.

2012 was a very ‘eventful’ year for me in particular because it was the year that was conscientiously emphasized throughout my whole entire life and generation. It was the much anticipated year of many things—the year I graduate from high school; the year I start attending Rutgers University; the year of a possible re-election of an African American president; and the year the world was supposed to end. It was all the talk of the town and because I was graduating, my friends and I called the year of 2012 ‘our year;’ There were just too many events that my generation was more or less looking forward to. However, looking back at it, not only was 2012 the year of joy and freedom, but also the year for grief and wake-up calls. It was the year I couldn’t celebrate Halloween; the year I realized how much we rely on technology and how sad that was; the year Hurricane Sandy kept us cold and in the dark for 9 long days and the year Mother Nature reminded us about life without electricity, hope, peace and tranquility.
Surprisingly, when the lights went out, so did our phones, tablets, TVs, and other electronics. It’s a natural thing when the electricity goes out, that the only thing keeping you from your technology is it’s battery life, but I never thought I would be so ‘lost’ without them. I think I can speak for most, when I say that Hurricane Sandy was the longest and excruciatingly boring 9 d...

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...ney and totally unreachable now, but if everyone in the Rutgers community in New Brunswick alone paid about a Happy Meals worth of money, then that cash is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Sharing information about recycling and energy conservation or even acting upon it when you’re with others, shows people not what could be done, but what should be done. Take the opportunities given and reach out to others to help protect your environment because without the first step, there would be no change.

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html

http://www.globalissues.org/article/233/climate-change-and-global-warming-introduction#WhatisGlobalWarmingandClimateChange

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy

http://www.emissourian.com/opinion/editorials/article_c80aa9ba-d068-11e3-929d-001a4bcf887a.html

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