Global Warming

Some Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising and fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem. In lastest survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press in Sept. 30-Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults, 57% think there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades. Only 71% said there was solid evidence of rising global temperatures. Some Ameicans are saying that global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels.

I think alot of people don't care about the ice melting up north and over time it will take over the world. Some say they don't want to spend alot of money to fix it up. I think we should spend money to save our earth.

Internet civil engagement

1. In 2008 a survey was found that 33% of internet users had a profile on a social net working site.

2. 37% of internet users aged 18-29 use blogs or social new working sites as a venue for political or civic involvement, compared to 17% of online 30-49 years old.

3. 17% of cell phone owners who are involved in a political or community group have communicated with the group via text messaging.

4. 67% of people who contacted a government official in person by phone or by letter a response on their query.

5. One- third of Americans (36%) are involved in a civic or political group and more than half of these (56%) use digital tools to communicate with other group members.

President Obama

(CNN) -- President Obama said Friday that he was "surprised and deeply humbled" by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

President Obama, speaking Friday, said the award was "an affirmation of American leadership."

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The committee said it honored Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

Obama said he viewed the decision less as a recognition of his own accomplishments and more as "a call to action."

The decision appeared to catch most observers by surprise. Nominations for the prize had to be postmarked by February 1, only 12 days after Obama took office. The committee sent out its solicitation for nominations last September, two months before Obama was elected president.

Obama had not been mentioned as among front-runners for the prize, and the roomful of reporters gasped when Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel committee, announced that the president was the winner.

I have mix thoughts why Obama really accomplished to recieve this award because he is bring more troops to over seas. Once I think about it, it could be the the best thing for America and the rest of the world. He will do anything in his power to obligated to do everything in his power to promote what the prize stands for.

Politics 1

Law.com (Legal) dealing with the law.

http://news.bbc.co.uk I like this site because it shows us news all around the world.

CNN Politics (cnn.com/POLITICS). They show us everything about politics.

5 things on the graph

1. I wasn't shocked to see that people who are 18-29 years old that are in college only 90% use the internet.

2. I was shocked to see that only 85% of people who are ages of 30- 49 use the internet. I thought it was going to be way less then college students .

3. All whites who use the internet there was only 75%.

4. People who are 18-29 years old there are only 86% own a cell phone.

5. High school students own a cell phone there are only 73%.

Degrees of Access (May 2008 data) ( 5 facts on the graph)

Degrees of Access (May 2008 data)

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