Oo·dles Of Permafrost Is Melting!

Carbon Foot Prints? Arctic regions of Siberia, Canada, Greenland, and Alaska are losing their land of permafrost and it is melting fast. Landscapes are changing. It is affecting us all. It is called global warming.

What have I been doing to help?

I tell anyone who will listen about the good or bad things that are helping or not helping our carbon footprints. Including telling you this today! Is there anything that we can do to help with warm climate change? How about taking it down a few degrees cooler?

I was the first of its kind website owner and a pioneer of recycling back in 1999. I launch an online program to swap around free gently used clothing and toys to help recycle them back to good use instead of throwing them out to the trash. Thus, less in our landfills.

Some news channels claimed that what I was doing online was a genius adventure and the best thing was ever done in the twentieth century on the Internet for recycling. And claimed I was one of the first pioneers to promote recycling items to be put back to good use on the net. It does not take a genius or rocket scientist or pioneer to realize we all need to stop certain practices to help maintain healthier earth.

What have I been doing to help? I plant trees in my yard. Keep reading!

Carbon Foot Prints? Some people may need to look up those three words because they just never heard of them before. So what is it? Carbon Footprints are greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide equivalent or CO2e math equations that affect our global warming across the globe. To make it easier to understand it is global warming may be caused by the higher amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Warming our atmosphere is the keyword!

What may be causing more of it? Our human activity may be the main cause of greater greenhouse gas emissions. Humans toss tons of garbage in seas and in landfills that could possibly be recycled right back to use. Using our ocean to dump human waste has to decrease. Our waste in the sea is killing sea life that is either eating it or getting entangled in it or getting poisoning by it.

Our landfills are filling up with methane gases. Landfills make methane gas as garbage decomposes. Methane gas is an angry greenhouse gas. It can cause health problems and reduces oxygen levels. How this may help: Less in landfills is best!

Another methane problem is the livestock cattle meat we consume. It puts out tons of methane gas emissions from their waste by-products. How this might help: Humans love to consume cattle meat it and it may be possible that we can help by choosing more energy-efficient eating habits.

How about this: Taking volcanic eruptions into consideration for global warming: A supervolcanic eruption occur about 466 million years ago. The earth got cooler. Thus, major volcanic eruptions can cause colder climate change and disrupt oxygen levels. Billions of years ago oxygen level was at a higher level and all living things were huge. Ants were really big and trees and dinosaurs too.

Over billions of years, more volcanic eruptions happened and all living things receive less oxygen and became smaller or extinct. And it cooled down the earth's weather system. In some parts of the world, it changed the landscape entirely. Such as the grassy woodlands that feed the mammoth had become ice lands and leading to starvation and led to their extinction. The earth has shown that volcanic eruption happens in a timely matter over the eons. It is a way for it to blow off some inner core steam.

So far, the volcanic eruption has been less, and our earth has become warmer. What and how humans are processing usage of things that may cause a warmer climate change has to be reduced. Anything that we can do to help warm climate change will help!

What about the Arctic permafrost that is thawing fast! It is melting across the Arctic regions of Siberia, Canada, Greenland, and Alaska. Oo·dles of it! Really cool stuff that has been hidden for millions of years is showing up along the banks of the melting permafrost. Arctic scientists are finding mammoth tusks and dinosaurs' bones and the stuff that the big ants were eating. Good news for the study of dinosaurs, big trees, and big ants but bad news for carbon footprinting.

Melting permafrost releases masses of carbons, methane gases, greenhouse gases, and dead debris gases that have been locked in it for millions of years. Not to mention many types of strange ugly bacteria that we never had any contact with during our lifetime. It is sooner than later that we all need to work on clean energy to help lower the earth's temperatures.

We can all learn what to do and what not to do to keep our earth a few degrees cooler and healthy. We all live in it. And so will the next generation to come.

What have I been doing to help? I don't like waste! I buy glass containers to store items in. I use cloth bags to put my grocery in. I hate those plastic garbage bags and I so happy to hear they are going away! Not only can they not be recycled because they tangle up the recycle machine - they are being consumed by sea life including whales and sea turtles that are washing up shore deceased with plastic jamming up their insides.

Most of all, I do not like having to use paper grocery bags because someone has to cut down forests to make them. We need our forest to help clean up the air we breathe. I don't drive my car unless it is a vital propose action and I try to do all the driving organized to use less gas. I recycle everything that is recyclable and drop it off at the recycle bin every week. Sometimes I have so many recycle items in a week that it fills up the back of a pickup truck.

Another thing I do to help climate change: I talk about it to my friends or family. And today I am writing about it.

The good news about all of us recycling plastic is that according to recent studies recycling plastics greatly reduces energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. And some landfills are investing in ways to use up the methane gases. Such as clean energy power for electricity.

I don't buy new clothes until the ones I have been over and done with them. I love shopping at second-hand shops to reuse whatever items I might need. It makes less in the landfills. I adust my daily diet to be more methane friendly by adding extra vegetables and fewer cattle meats to fill up my belly.

Furthermore, we need to adjust the way we use paper products. We need trees! Don't cut down a tree. Plant a tree. It reduces our carbon footprints. Trees breathe in the same air as we do. Trees remove the bad carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release good oxygen. Plus, they help clean up our waterways.

Remember when you go out to shop to use a washable cloth bag and refuse to use a paper bag at the store counter. Encourage your family and friends to get involved in helping our carbon footprints because it will take the entire global human race to help all living things to become healthier.

Think twice before tossing items in your trash. Think about can I reuse this or can someone else reuse it? Can I donate it and drop it off at a second-hand store? It makes less in the landfills.

Foremost, since global human beings are the main causes of greenhouse gas emissions our process of improving our carbon footprints has only just begun. And over time we all can help lower it. I sure tried and did it starting back in 1999 and will contine to do it from this day forward.

Last, who am I? Jane! Not a genius or rocket scientist. Yes, a pioneer. I am just a plain Jane that really cares about all living things on our earth. I love learning about big dinosaurs, big trees, big ants, and the history of the ancient races of people of all magnificent colors. We are all of them. From the humans that survived long ago as one of many. Go outside today and PLANT A TREE OF MAGNIFICENT COLORS! You can become a recycling pioneer too.