Overview on my firts blog

    After Dr. Roger read and explained to the class how to summarized and get the most important data out of the article" New York Is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics Warn I have concluded that even thought, I have most of the information he mentioned my blog can be better. I could add some of the names of important people who are doing investigation on climate change like Dr. Hill,   and also some valuable information regarding time, money and people facts. I will go over my blog and I will make the necessary changes to get a better grade and to do a better job for my future blogs. Thanks to how clear Dr. Roger details and explain the important notes on this article I will definitely put  more attention on my coming readings, so I can perform a better and more detailed blog next time.

Climate Change

My name is Digna Colon and I am writing a blog about climate change.  In this blog am responding to an assignment in my ENG 101 composition class on climate change. The assignment asked me to read and summarize an article about what New York City is doing to prepare for climate change. In this blog I will discuss the main point of the article and will also give my opinion on one of the reader picks.

                In the article, New York Is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics Warn, published on September 10^th by Navarro, states that New York City has carefully come across of possible “threat of rising sea bringing severe storm flooding.” As a result Mayor, Michael Bloomberg is conducting research on climate change to move boilers of flood prone basement. However, some critics think that the city is moving to slow on addressing the potential flooding that can paralyze the transportation and hurt the financial district and also affect thousands of people leaving them without home.  The critic’s point of view is based on the fact that a year ago the city shut down on the subway system and ordered an evacuation of 370,000 people, as Hurricane Irene passed the Atlantic Coast.  Fortunately, the Hurricane declined to a tropical storm, but still exposed how New York City is far from being covered from such disaster and being economically short from billions of dollars.

Based on a comment, posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:03 am, Dob talks about the sense of insecurity he experienced when he found himself trapped in a PATH train traveling from NJ to NY in 2007 when the tubes flooded.  He also describes the poor planning of evacuation “they diverted us mid-way to the downtown station rather than mid-town”. In my opinion, Dob’s experience clearly shows how unprepared the City is to deal with these emergencies.  In addition, this is call of awareness for all of us as one nation since the climate change will not just affect one part of the population but all of us as a whole.

Diagnostic

The environment plays a huge roll in peoples lives. Specially when it comes to unexpected changes  or is not like we though it was going to be like.
   I come from a tropical country, the Dominican Republic, where no matter the season the climate is always hot. I remember the first time I came to the United States, my very first impression of the country was the climate and the environment itself. How different the days and the nights looked. I had to deal with the change that was dramatic for me due to the difference in the weather, getting used to the cold which was the hardest part for me. In top of this not only deal with the cold, but with the snow and everything the winter bring. However, I still don't get used to the weather, but I have learn to adjusted to it because I know that in despite of the winter New York City is a great place to live and it offer a diversity of opportunities to people that want to succeed in their education.