Getting Ahead - Letter to a friend

October 23, 2014

Dear Martin,

It had been to long since your last visit to Chile, I want to tell you that all the guys here are very good, including me. But something occurred to me two days ago, I was skating in a very steep street when suddenly I fell down near Bosques de Montemar and I crushed with a car that was parked in the right side of that stupid street. I fainted and when I woke up I was inside of an stranger car going to the hospital.

The doctors told me that my arm was dislocated and I would need to use a cast for about three months. I knew in that moment that I was going to skate again in a week. They gave me some drugs for the pain and I was released. I am gonna wait until I felt better to go back to the streets.

My friend, I want to ask you, how have you been in this long time that we haven't seem each other, now I have to say good bye, have a nice day. 

Global Warming Opinion Essay

It's worth understanding what is going on with the environmental problems facing us today, than trying to change it without knowing what's happening first. My view is that the society doesn't know that the most important environmental problem facing the world today is global warming; we need to think about what is going to happen when our grandchildren become adults and when the world will be consumed by a dangerous climate change, increasing the average temperature of the Earth.

According to National Geographic, scientists have spent decades figuring out what is causing global warming, they've looked at the natural cycles and also events that are known to influence climate change. National Geographic scientists investigated the problem and came out with the conclusion that the only way to explain global warming is to include the effect of greenhouse gases emitted by humans.

I believe that its going to be very difficult to carry with global warming problem, because first we need to change the point of view of humanity. If people do not try to live in an ecological system I don't believe that we would win this. What Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) said was that "climate change will have a significant impact on the sustainability of water supplies in the coming decades". A new analysis by NRDC found that "more than 1,100 counties will face extremely high risks of water shortages".

On the other hand John Hawkins, a columnist of Townhall Newspaper said that "there is no scientific consensus that global warming is ocurring and caused by man".

According to him "31.000 scientists have signed on to a petition saying humans aren't causing global warming and another 1.000 saying there is no global warming at all".

In conclusion I believe that what John Hawkins said is entirely wrong, he said that global warming it's not occurring and it's not caused by humans, I said to him that I have real facts why global warming is caused by humans that are filling up the atmosphere of greenhouse gases that will destroy it.

I believe that we need to think about what is happening with the atmosphere if we want to continue living the way we live.

                                                                   Bibliography

Hawkins, John  (February 18, 2014)  "5 Scientific Reasons Why Global Warming Isn't Happening" Retrieved from: http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2014/02/18/5-scientific-reasons-that-global-warming-isnt-happening-n1796423/page/full

National Geographic,  "What Causes Global Warming"  (N.D)  Retrieved from:                http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-causes

NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council),  "Climate Change, Water, and Risk" (16 of July, 2010)
Retrieved from: http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/watersustainability/