Math Blog: Global Warming

      Proven over and over again all the time, math can be found anywhere and everywhere.  Global warming, for example, is a threatening predicament that has many statistics to prove that it must be slowed down.  Already, global warming is responsible for approximately 150000 extra deaths a year.  This figure is expected to double by 2030, according to the World Health Organization.  This astonishing fact is horrifying since it proves that global warming has started to affect humans even more rapidly than ever before.  Additionally, it tells us that we must stop releasing so much pollution into the air and stop using so much energy so that we can prevent global warming from continuing rapidly into a path of certain disaster.


      As another example of how the climate change is effecting us is that an unusually harsh heat wave in Europe in the summer of 2003 led to 20000 deaths.  According to Grolier, these types of brutal summers may seem normal in fifty years.  If summers like the one in Europe happen more often, how many more deaths will there be?  How many more will suffer?  There is no answer to these two questions right now, but, looking at all the frightening statistics, everyone can tell that it is more than many more.  However, if we can work to overwrite our mistakes, global warming can be slowed down.


      Taking a step back from global warming, I can definitely say that statistics help people understand the reality of all situations.  Numerous and various things can be shown to relate to mathematics.  As stated in the beginning, math can be found anywhere and everywhere.  


 ~Starflower 794!