Melting Glaciers on Climate Talk List in Paris

Melting Glaciers on Climate Talk List in Paris

A new landscape of lakes, scree slopes, hills and large boulders is revealed after a glacier retreats. Glaciers in Iceland—and throughout the Arctic—are vanishing due to a rapidly warming climate. 9Feo Pitcairn Fine Art)

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11/22/2015

Melting Glaciers on Climate Talk List in Paris

 

Terrorist attacks in Paris are not expected to stop the United Nations from hosting a major climate conference in that city.
Next week nearly 120 heads of state and government will gather in the City of Lights to discuss ways to cut harmful pollution.
President Barack Obama, China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin are scheduled to attend. They will try to reach an agreement to fight changes in the Earth’s climate.
The meeting is known as COP21. The U.N. says it wants an agreement among nations to limit the rise in world temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius.
Before the terrorist attacks, France hosted a pre-summit meeting. France's Laurent Fabius told journalists that “the task ahead is considerable.”
Governments are discussing how to lower harmful gas released from burning fossil fuels, like oil and gasoline. These have been blamed for climate change.
Experts warned recently that a major glacier in Greenland is quickly melting and falling into the Atlantic Ocean.
If the entire glacier in the northeast of Greenland melts and falls, global sea levels could rise by a half meter.
The study, published in the journal Science, said the glacier melted three times faster than earlier. Known as Zachariae Isstrom, the glacier is losing 5 billion tons of mass per year, according to the study.
The glacier is dumping many icebergs into the ocean. That will raise sea levels in future decades, Jeremie Mouginot wrote. He is the study’s lead author and a professor at the University of California-Irvine.
The study based its findings on 40 years of data from satellite and aerial surveys. They looked at the shape, size and position of glacial ice. 
Warmer ocean water is eroding the glacier from below. Warmer air temperatures are melting it from above. Another Greenland glacier is also melting, but not as quickly because it is in a protected location.
The study said the two glaciers make up 12 percent of the Greenland ice sheet. It said if they fully collapse, that would increase global sea levels by more than one meter.
Greenland is near the icy North Pole of the planet.
However, another recent study said that ice in Antarctica at the South Pole is growing.
In the Journal of Glaciology, NASA said satellites showed the Antarctic ice sheet gained 112 billion tons of ice from 1992 to 2001. The gain slowed to 82 billion tons from 2003 to 2008.
That is what Jay Zwally said. He is a glaciologist with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He is the study’s lead author.
Critics question the study. Many other studies have found that Antarctica is generally losing ice.
Zwally said he agrees with others that ice is melting in the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica.
But, he says that East Antarctica and other parts are gaining ice.
“There, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas,” he said.
Zwally and his team used satellites to measure changes over large and small areas.
Snowfall is not common in Antarctica because it is technically a desert. Antarctica is a dry desert, with cold, brutal weather.

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Questions.
1. What is the biggest reasons for melting glaciers?
2. How do we have to do to prevent the environmental pollutions? and especially what?
3. What is COP-21?
4. There are many forms of climate change summit, and every year the global leaders gather to discuss climate change and make some resolution to protect the earth, but environmrntal pollution is getting serious. how do you think about that?
5. what is your individual act to reduce the pollution?


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http://www.arirang.com/News/News_View.asp?nseq=185790

President Park called for collective international efforts for a new deal on tackling climate change.
Addressing some 1-hundred-40 heads of state at the opening session of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris on Monday President Park reiterated South Korea's goal to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 37 percent by 2030.
Over 1-hundred-60 countries which account for 90 percent of global emissions have put forward their climate targets for post-2020.
President Park said Seoul will reach its goal by fostering a new energy industry.

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"Korea will gradually make zero-energy buildings obligatory, and we will shift all large factories to smart factories using information and communication technology. Korea's signature Jeju Island will be transformed into a carbon-free island using only renewable energy and electric cars."
( , ICT . 100% carbon-free island .)

By doing that, President Park said Korea will create a new market worth 100 billion U.S. dollars by 2030 and make 500-thousand jobs.
As an end product of this year's global climate talks, world leaders are aiming to achieve a successor treaty to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2020.
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"On Tuesday, President Park will give a special speech at the UNESCO headquarters, becoming the first South Korean leader to do so. She will then leave for Prague for a summit with the Visegrad group comprised of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.
 

Maksim Mrvica held the 1st concert in Busan, korea

Mrvica was born in Šibenik, Croatia. He took up piano lessons from the age of nine  .Three years later he gave his first concert performance of Haydn’s Piano Concerto in C major. When war broke out in 1991, both Mrvica and his professor were determined that this would not disrupt his music studies. In spite of the war and surrounding turbulence, Mrvica entered in, and won, his first major competition in Zagreb in 1993.^{[citation needed]}
Mrvica went on to study at the Music Academy in Zagreb where he spent five years under Professor Vladimir Krpan, who himself was a pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. He then spent a year at the Franz Liszt Conservatoire in Budapest^[1] and during this year he won first prize at the Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition. In 2000, he moved to Paris to study with Igor Lazko and gained first prize in the Pontoise Piano Competition in 2001.
When he returned to Croatia he found himself to be the focus of media interest and he made television appearances as well as giving a number of interviews.^{[citation needed]} He soon found himself recording his first CD, Gestures, an album of contemporary Croatian piano pieces. Gestures became one of the fastest-selling classical recordings to be released in Croatia, and Mrvica was invited to officiate the Porin award ceremony, an honour not usually granted to a classical artist



I am a big fan of Maksim since when i was 18 years old.
He is the first musician and pianist who created the electronic piano music mixed with drum, violin, electronic guitar and other instruments.
When we think about the piano music, It is so bored and traditional.
But, Maksim's performance makes you having difference thought for the piano music.

Each of tracks have different moods from intense rhythm to lyrical rhythm.
My favorite music of Maksim is "Wonderland."

Wonderand is mixed with class piano and electronic sound.

 

Review for last week "Aging"

This issue makes me calm down.
Every time, all people work without thinking of getting age, me,too.
but, as time goes by, i'm getting older and i change my mind to fit our society and background.
when i was young, i meam, when i was 20s, i was a little sensitive person.

Through facing the difficulties, I changed my characters.
Gettiing age means having the know-how to survive of life.
It is naturing thing.

Week 10th "history always repeats itself".

Through the topic, We think about a " Ledership."

So many times, Korea film companies made the movie on the topic of korean king's the ledership.
accroding to our society, the film makers tended to show necessary things of our society via the movie. Sado(사도), Myungrang(명량), which movies focused on the capability and qualification of our king or leader.

Many koreans are thirsty for our recent leader's an irresponsible conduct to tackle the issues.
Through the this kinds of movie, we get vicarious satisfaction.