PBL election: A Vision of Science issues

Cornelius Chavis
A Vision of Science issues
October 9, 2008


Global Warming is a issues that's been wondering the Earth for a long time uncared about but ever since the starting years of the new century it's become a major issue. The reason why is because the Earth is getting hotter because of the Greenhouse effect that brings the sun on places that don't get the much heat and is making the ozone layer get smaller by the day. A example is that the regular storm disasters are overpowering their strength that kills millions, the Antarctic glaziers are falling apart melting the ice away which is a problem for the polar bears, and the forest fires which burn down wild animals homes causing them to move plus the plants we need are getting wasted. The causes of global warming from us are the gasoline we use leek out of transportation vehicles oil that shoots in the sky, we are wasting water that we use will be gone if we don't conserve it, the Oil Company's tank are going up in the sky making the Earth get hotter, and all war material have a chemical in the after being used that is the most reason of the world getting hotter. McCain Calls global warming an issue that we cant ignore, and Obama also believes that we need to stop global warming from happening.

Nuclear weapons use the destructive properties of splitting an atom which cause explosions destroying nearly or all things in it's range. It can be very dangerous, especially the atom bomb, because they destroy land and kill many innocent citizens that do not deserve to die. When a country has nuclear weapons we have to respond by buying more very expensive weapons that contracts with them so that they don't get more abuse the nuclear power by using it on our enemy on the wrong time. They hurt are economy and the war and they need to be gone for good because using nuclear weapons are going to just cause more destruction, power, and greed to other countries around the world. McCain says that,"If Iran acquires nuclear weapons, all the other countries will acquire them too, and Obama said we cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon because it would be a game-changer in the region

Off shore drilling is the act of extracting underground resources which lie underwater near the shoreline where they will drill for oil off the shore of America. The first offshore drilling was done at the end of the 19th century in Baku at the Bibi-Eibat field and in 1896 at Summerland field on the California Coast. The fields today are found in the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Campos, Santos Basins off the coasts of Brazil, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and several fields off West Africa most notably west of Nigeria and Angola. The problem is that offshore oil production involves environmental risks, most notably oil spills from oil tankers transporting oil from the platform to onshore facilities, from pipelines doing the same, and from leaks and accidents on the platform. Barack Obama said he could support broad energy legislation even though it would permit offshore oil drilling which he had opposed, and John McCain said that he is now in favor of the same oil drilling off the coast that he was opposed to just a week ago.