NPR Vlog

This entry is based on the NPR "All About Carbon" Video #2, entitled, When Carbon Falls in Love, the World Heats Up. This video breifly discusses how the more carbon we burn, the more Carbon Dioxide is released into the air. These videos are a different alternative for learning in the classroom because it is entertaining you while giving you facts and details. I learned in this video that Carbon likes to bond with two Oxygens, and clings to them. The CO2 gets distributed across the oceans, and also absorbed into forests and trees; basically all over the world. Another term I learned more about was the Greenhouse Effect. Since there is so much CO2 in the atmosphere, the sun is heating up these molecules, adding to the increasing temperature. This series of videos is informative, and then ends of posing the question, "If Carbon is making us warmer, what can we do about it?"

Changes in the Future

Within the next fifty years, there will be several changes that effect the way us humans live our lives from day-to-day. If you look back fifty years ago, you are able to point out so many facts of life that have changed over the years. in the future, I suppose that there will be further inventions that deal with technology.


Computers will become smaller, and more portable/durable. Also, I assume there will be many advancements with cars. Who knows, the could float soon...maybe there will even be a highly efficient alternative for fuel that will help the economy. Hopefully, there will be other advancements that deal with cures for diseases or sicknesses. Research in medicine will be continued and there may be several cures out there. Lives will be saved and several aspects of life that are valid today, will not be true in fifty years.