The Inconvenient Truth

            The Inconvenient Truth is a movie that gives a message about how the world are suffering by the enemy that we as a human being cannot see clearly, the global warming. As the narrator in the story, Al Gore, the candidate of being the next president of United States of America a couple years ago had given a speech on how global warming really works, the issues are literally ignored by many people that does not believe that the enemy of human being existence are our own actions. There are a lot more to say how global warming really works and how our earth is finally giving us the message that it cannot stand more of our actions toward destroying ourselves. There are evidences in the movie that we can see in the news everyday, but still, no one has an urge to do something about it.

            “What’s get us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so” is the quote by the famous widely known author, Mark Twain. This quote tell us that it is not what we do not understand that get us into trouble, but it is what we do know for sure but we choose to ignore it at once. The pollution is bad for the environment, but we do it still because it is convenient to us. Even Al Gore, the environment activist and still sided to the environment in his politics career cannot make a difference although he has all the legitimate power to make a difference. This is because the United States government keeps ignoring him whenever he talks about environment. He believes that global warming is no longer a political issue, but more of a moral problem. That is why he keeps fighting all over the year giving speech to make people aware of global warming.

            As we can see, the atmosphere is very important because it helps to maintain the temperature of the earth, but also vulnerable because it is so thin. The heat and radiation from the sunlight are being filtered by the atmosphere and only parts of them are absorbed. Being absorbed, the heat will help to warm the planet in a natural way and will be released out back into the space as soon as another heat is queuing to penetrate into. However, this process is interrupted by the existence of the greenhouse gasses. Since the industrial revolution in the 19^th century the burning of fossils starts to increase the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Not just carbon dioxide, but nitrous oxide and methane also contribute to the existence of greenhouse gasses at the atmosphere but just in small proportions. When the level of carbon dioxide is at the dangerous state, the greenhouse effects occur. Greenhouse effect is the phenomena which thermal radiation of the earth surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gasses and is re-radiated in all directions. Most of it was re-radiated back to earth surface. This phenomenon is the biggest trouble that had been contributed in global warming problem. 

            The easiest way to encounter the heat which is not the very wise idea is to put the giant ice into the ocean. But, how many ice that we need to cool down the earth temperature back to normal? Literally, we can now see the effects of global warming that happened to our glaciers. Many highlands have glaciers. But according to the picture taken from the satellites, they are reducing in size of ice nowadays, which means the heat had already melted them down into freshwater and running down our streams into the oceans. 650 000 years ago, in the 7^th ice age, the sea level not as high as today. If these continue to happen for the next 100 years, we will be living underwater because as the satellites shows many big cities are build at lowlands near the sea. As for the heat, it also started to show some sign when a heat wave killed many people in 2005. Heat wave is the most lethal type of the weather phenomenon. Why? Because when the heat started to change water into vapor, it is not just the river and the ocean, but also the water from the soil. The heat sucks up the moisture from the soil which will result in the soil dried up. So, there will be no vegetation can be planted, no food can be obtained and no organism can survive in that area anymore. Long drought also gives effect to the forest when there are many wildfires or bushfires. If the heat wave occurs during a drought, it will dry up all the vegetation and contributes to the wildfires. Global warming also cause heavy rain in some places that will lead to flood that also killed many people like what happened to China and Turkey this year. Generally, some places will be extremely dry and some other places will be extremely wet as the season changes.

            Hurricane is also one of the effects of global warming. There is research made by scientist that questioned why the storm’s wind velocity is increasing each year? The research ended up with one shocked conclusion which is the heat. When temperatures increase, wind velocity also increase which will make the storm or hurricane more powerful each year. For example, Katrina hurricane that moves along at the hot water area had killed many people. 1836 fatalities recorded since the last it strikes United States in 2005. It also cost 1.8 million U.S dollar to their government for the damage that it takes.

            The Arctic act as a giant mirror that helps to bounce the sun rays back to the open space. But, because of sea temperature is rising, the ice of Arctic start to melt down and increase the sea water level and we thought it was the most horrible thing ever happen to the earth. Wrong. As the ice of Arctic melting, the sea will be filled with freshwater that came from the ice which will reduce the sea salinity level. Salinity of the sea act as a giant heating machine that provide a little warm to the Europe and American continent during the winter. But, when the salinity is decreasing, the sea can no longer provide warm to these two continents which lead to extreme cold. It proven and appear to be happen to Europe in 2009 and 2010 when the lowest temperature recorded is about -45.6°C. This led to number of death, widespread transport disruption and power failure. 

  

            The world can be the better place to stay if we as a human being start to care about what kind of message it try to give us. It can still be saved from global warming if we are all stop worrying about what more convenient to us. If we want to save earth, we have to start from the very beginning of our action and our attitude. As an African proverb says “When you pray, move your feet” which mean if we are hoping for a change, we ourselves have to move and make the change happens.

***ni essay aku pasal global warming yang aku buat sebagai assignment kat universiti aku... ayat semua original. takda copy and paste... rasa-rasanya aku boleh x jadi penulis?? huhuhu..

aku dan marah~

Penah tengok cerita "Anger management" tak? cerita yang mengisahkan sorang laki yang terpaksa menerima terapi daripada seorang psikiatris kerana marah yang melampau... tapi bukan marah pada orang lain... tapi lebih kepada marah kepada diri dia sendiri sebab biar orang pijak kepala dia.. OK... but my story, it is completely different... Aku seorang yang pemarah... pemarah kenapa? sebab aku marah ialah lebih kepada sesuatu terjadi...tapi aku tak mampu untuk buat sesuatu untuk itu... jadi aku marah..

Contohnya... aku janji dengan seseorang yang aku nak keluar minum dengan dia... bila aku sampai di kedai, aku tunggu lama sangat... dan dia datang... tapi lambat.. aku akan jadi marah... kenapa? sebab aku tak boleh buat sesuatu untuk hilangkan marah tu... contohnya, dia kawan aku.. jadi takkan aku nak pukul dia sbb dia dah buat aku marah.. contoh lg.. dia awek aku, takkan aku nak marah dia sebab dia lambat... tambah pulak dia awek, so kalau dia merajuk, jadi tugas aku pulak nak pujuk... paham???

OK... bila api marah tu wujud dalam diri aku... dia akan jadi susah untuk dipadamkan... orang lain takkan faham apa aku rasa waktu tu... yang orang tau, budak ni pemarah, so marah dia lagi.... jadi orang marah aku lagi sebab aku pemarah... hakikatnya, orang pemarah perlukan orang yang bagi ketenangan... orang yang sedia nak dengar apa yang dia nak marahkan, dan orang yang boleh dia cerita masalah marahnya tu... tak kiralah marah dengan muka bengis ke, marah dengan muka mcm hantu skali pon... sebab penawar bagi marah, pada aku selain mengambil wuduk ialah.... PENDENGAR YANG SETIA.

marah ni bagi aku, adalah macam satu elemen yang mampu ditransferkan... atau dipindahkan.. apabila seseorang tu marah, dia perlukan satu medium lain, untuk dia transfer marah dia tu... jadi... disinilah pendengar tu berfungsi... pendengar yang baik mampu menyerap semua marah seseorang tu kemudia menenangkan orang sekaligus memadamkan api marah yang ada dalam diri dia... tugas macam ni selalunya diambil oleh orang yang kita sayang... sebab orang yang disayangi ni lebih memahami diri kita secara tak langsung mampu menjadi pendengar yang setia.. contohnya boyfren ke, girlfren ke, kawan baek ke, adik ke, abang ke, kakak ke mahupon mak ayah sendiri...

Tapi... masalah akan timbul apabila, pihak yang sepatutnya menenangkan pihak yang marah tu tak mampu jadi pendengar yang setia, sebaliknya marah pulak kepada orang yang marah tadi tu... sebabnya kerana dia tak faham, tak mahu faham, dan takkan faham orang yang mrah tu... jadi disini lah banyak berlaku masalah penceraian suami isteri, ataupun putus hubungan dengan pasangan kekasih masing-masing... kerana satu pihak yang marah, tidak berjaya ataupon tidak ditenangkan oleh pihak yang satu lagi... os esok, bila nak pilih pasangan, pilihlah yang mampu bagi ketenangan pada kita, bukan yang kita silap sikit, nak marah, bila kita marah, dia pulak nak tambah marah... this is wrong! korang takkan kekal lama bila pasangan mcm tu... trust me.. aku dah alami...

sekarang dah paham kan ape tafsiran marah definisi aku... hehe.. Hakikatnya... mak ayah aku adalah pendengar yang sangat setia... aku boleh marah (bukan marah diorang), aku boleh cerita marah, dan aku boleh tunjuk muka marah( sambil cerita marah) pada mereka... dan sebelum aku sedar, marah tu sudahpon ditransferkan dan aku menjadi sejuk semula... sebab mereka sangat memahami aku.... tapi... sekarang aku di universiti... tempat dimana aku terasing daripada mak ayah aku... macam mana aku nak overcome masalah ni... aku pon tak tau..

MiNaT, HoBi dan aku..... (bahagian 2)

hobi kedua : baca novel

hobi ni aku buat time hujung- hujung zaman persekolahan aku... dikala orang cakap cinta zaman sekolah mula nak berputik.. tapi aku buat hobi ni tak lama.. tau kenapa? sebab bila aku baca novel, baru 2 ke 3 page, aku tertidor.. maka keronyok la aku punya novel dek kerana aku tidor x sedar diri...actually novel- novel tu bukan aku punya.. masa hujung- hujung zaman sekolah, buat pertama kali aku berkawan dengan kawan- kawan yang lari terus daripada kriteria kawan- kawan yang aku cari... diorang ni orang- orang yang buleh aku katakan jiwang, dan obses dengan cinta, hati dan perasaan... hahaha... aku rase bongok nak bincang pasal benda ni time skolah... dan novel- novel tu pulak bukanlah novel- novel yang versatil... hanya tertumpu pada novel cinta terbitan alaf 21... alaa.. yg budak- budak pompuan suka baca tu... Ya! itulah novelnya... aku pulak bile dah bukak novel cinta ni, rasa mcm kepala aku kene hempap ngan kampit beras... ngantok je memanjang.. haiihh.. plus, hobi ni bukan hobi yang murah... sebijik novel terbitan alaf 21 mencecah 30 ringgit... bagi aku yang hanya dapat sebulan 100 ringgit dari ayah aku waktu tu, hobi ini boleh aku kategorikan sbagai hobi mahal dan bodoh nak mampos!! hahaha... mau taknya... mana nak beli novel lg, nak makan lg... nak bli buku lagi... dah la bosan... tapi aku kagum dengan member- member aku ni... diorang bule beli hari ni novel tu dan petang esok dah habis khatam 1 novel.. gila! sebab masalah kewangan dan rasa yang hobi ni merepek, aku tinggalkan hobi ni... sekejap je aku buat... haha..

Fakta: sebenarnya dalam tempoh aku dok buat benda ni, hanya sebiik novel aku berjaya habiskan... pastu di tengah - tengah novel yang kedua.. aku quit... hehe.. so jumlah bacaan aku hanyalah 1 setengah saje.. sekian...

to be continued...

MiNaT, HoBi dan aku.....

Imbas kembali.... hampir 10 tahun yang lalu... waktu aku di tingkatan 2 di antara sekolah yang sangat famous seluruh Pulau Pinang.. ya.. my very high school.. SMKA Al-Irshad... remaja umur 14 tahun waktu tu, masih tercari-cari identiti... still di awangan... walaupun ada beberapa member-member aku dah tau hala tuju diorang kat skolah tu.. tapi aku tak ikut.. tak sesuai dengan jiwa aku.. untuk itu, aku beranikan diri aku untuk mencuba hobi dan minat sorang-sorang kawan-kawan aku... tujuan aku, nak tengok sama ada minat tu ngam ke tak dengan aku... haha..

cerita seterusnya ni.... berlaku dalam tempoh 4 tahun aku belajar di sekolah, iaitu sampai la aku tamat tingkatan 5 dari tingkatan 2...

Hobi pertama: melukis kartun...

-Hobi yang pertama ni takdelah susah sangat... sebab aku sendiri pon mmg suka melukis dari aku darjah 1 lagi.. haha.. salah!! susahnya aku rasa nak lukis kartun ni... aku tanya diri aku, kenapa aku x boleh lukis... sedangkan aku tengok member aku dengan senangnya hasilkan 1 masterpiece yang balance kiri kanan depan blakang... aku pon mula buat siasatan... siasat punya siasat ( sampai abes skolah) aku kumpul banyak maklumat..

pertama, karikatur perlukan idea yang tak ada pada orang biasa.. sentiasa perlu pikir out of the box.. idea yang dijumpai tu akan buat kartun yg dilukis tu hidup, tak kosong.. kedua, style lukisan mestilah tak lari... konsisten je... walaupun melukis watak- watak yang berlainan... contohnya...kalau lukisan selalunya guna ballpen or pensil, jangan pulak pi guna charcoal... it will kill the mood of the kartun.. ketiga, latihan... practice lukis sebanyak mungkin... rujuk komik-komik punya style kalau rajin... walopun aku lukis burok, aku practice jugak... dan korang akan nampak, style lukisan tu akan sikit2 jadi konsisten dan sama... keempat, bakat... aku letak bakat ni paling last sebab aku percaya orang boleh buat apa saja kalau banyak latihan.. bakat ni hanya untuk menambah baik je... hasilnya... sampai sekarang aku enjoy melukis... aku suka melukis... untuk diri aku sendiri....



To be continued.....