Global warming

This is a very serious issue which is currently turning the world upside down. Global warming is causing a lot of things to happen like the ice in Antarctica melting because of the increase heat in the planet which is a result of the greenhouse effect.

Global warming is not only causing ice to melt, it has also resulted in temperature variations places which were normally warm I either too cold or too hot like Africa. And storms which were never known in those areas are now occurring. But since someone is making a lot of money off all this it will be a long time before companies which pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in great amounts are shut down. Take for example the article below about a lake that mysteriously vanished into thin air in only 3 months time.

Scientists Try to Solve Mystery of Vanished Lake in Chile

A glacial lake on the southern tip of Chile has vanished, leaving behind a dry crater and a scientific mystery.

A glacial lake on the southern tip of Chile has vanished, leaving behind a dry crater and a scientific mystery.

Park rangers in Magallanes province, a remote wilderness 1,200 miles south of Santiago, were stunned to discover that the lake no longer existed. When last seen three months ago it had a surface area of 101,200 square meters (332,000 square feet) and was filled with icy water 30 meters (100ft) deep.

"In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal. We went again in May and to our surprise we found the lake had completely disappeared," Juan José Romero, regional director of Chile's National Forestry Corporation, said this week. "The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure. We are not talking about a small lake, it's quite big. No one knows what happened."

A 40-meter wide river that flowed from the lake to the Pacific Ocean five miles away has been reduced to a trickle and can now be walked over.

For once, however, the prime suspect is not global warming or any other form of climate change. A team of geologists and other scientists due to fly to the site over the next few days has speculated that an earthquake cracked the earth beneath the lake and drained the water, as if a plug had been pulled.

Ricardo Jana, a researcher with the Chilean Antarctic Institute, told the newspaper El Mercurio that if a tremor caused the collapse then the scientists should be able to pinpoint how it happened.

Southern Chile has recorded thousands of minor tremors this year. A relatively big one in April is suspected of pulling the plug on the lake, but the scientists stressed that was conjecture.

The lake, which had been fed mostly by water from melting glaciers, was so remote it had not been named and had been omitted from some maps. The park rangers who noticed its disappearance did so by chance. They had been on a patrol to monitor huemules, a type of deer.

Magallanes province is often referred to as the end of the world since it is one of the most southernmost points inhabited by humans.

Despite the Magallanes mystery, climate change is more of a threat to South America's glacier lakes. Higher temperatures have forced the retreat, and in some cases disappearance, of lakes in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru.

Taken from

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/142439.html

My Poster

My aim is to create a poster which will show people the harmful effects of Global warming and also show them what will happen to us if we don’t take steps to battle this global disaster in the making. I want to show people how we are being exploited by the rich and powerful people who are killing our world.

If whole lakes can disappear in just a period of three months how long will it be before we do? It might seem farfetched but it could soon be reality if we just standby and help kill our own planet by not taking any action.

I aim to make a poster that can hopefully have an impact on people so that tragedies like the one above will never happen again.

My calender
The flag of course its the national flag of my country and the pot is a traditional pot which is used for holding/keeping water.

I believe the pot has a symbolical meaning in the way i used because i believe that just like Sir Seretse Khama it holds the well being of people which he did back when he was in power.

Making the calendar

First I uploaded a sketch of a design I made and after that I used the pen tool to trace it out. I then used the elipse tool to make the mouth of the pot.

I used the rectangular grid tool to make the grid for the calendar; I used the gradient to fill in the background of the grid. I also coloured the numbers and days differently so that I could set apart Sunday from the rest of the other days of the week. For the day I focused on I used a different colour (which was blue in this case) to differentiate it from the other days, I also wrote it in italics.

I added the fireworks to set the celebration mood to it, the writing in italics of the words also proved to make it a little bit more interesting to look at.

The calendar was great because it showed a day that celebrates the lives of a man whom I believe played a very important role in the history of Botswana.

Second design.

First design of my calender .This design is simply but yet straight to the point.

Well having given you a brief description about the holiday i'm focusing on which is by the way (Sir Seretse Khama Day,on the 1st of July),i will now tell you why i chose this particular holiday and month.

Firstly i chose the holiday because it celebrates the life of a man whom i believe has made a big contribution in the growth and political status of my country(for which i am more than thankful).I also believe he showed people that you can achieve anything you want to particularly his marriage to Ruth which had to have been a bold and courages move taking into consideration how the world was racist.

As for the month i chose it because firstly and obviously it has the holiday on which i have based my focus, secondly its because that President's day is also celebrated on this particular month and thus i felt the need to concentrate on this month.Thank you.

I am basing my calender on Sir Seretse khama day.
A day which upon we celebrate the legacy of our first president Sir Seretse Khama.

Sir Seretse Khama was born in 1921,he was a son to Sekgoma Khama the 3rd.His name "Seretse" means the clay that binds together.

He was a really educated man, who went through a lot of trials and tribulations but in the end he manage to get through them all.One that is mostly known is his marriage to Ruth Williams a young lady who he had met while studying in London and whom he had married after a year of courtship, this interracial marriage faced a lot of opposition especially the apartheid government of neighboring South Africa and also from the elders of his tribe.


Eventually they all had no choice but to accept the union.Seretse later established the BDP, a political party with which he ran for office in the 1965 election and won thus he was declared the prime minister of Bechunaland(now known as Botswana), and in 1966 Botswana gained its indipendence from british rule and he was elected as its acting president and at this time the country was among some of the world's poorest nations and this is what Seretse set out to change and he achieved this with the discovery of Diamonds in Orapa.Using the diamonds and other resources like beef and copper he help built an economy strongly based on the export of this commodities.

And thanks to him from the year 1966 to 1980 Botswana had the world's fastest growing economy,he was president until his death in 1980 from pancreatic cancer.He is said to be the founding father of democracy in Botswana.

NB:Points were obtained from Wikipedia and paraphrased by me.For further information on Sir Seretse Khama please feel fee to visit the link below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sir_seretse_khama

Thank you.