We are concerned about the environment!
Kenny School has been working for years to improve the environment through gardening, planting trees, environmental field trips, recycling, composting and helping to teach children what they can do to be good stewards of the land. Please join us in our effort to improve the environment. Scientists agree the Earth's climate is being directly affected by human activity, and for many people around the world, these changes are having negative effects.
Carbon dioxide levels today are nearly 30 percent higher than they were prior to the start of the Industrial Revolution, based on records extending back 650,000 years.
In May 2005, scientists concluded the Earth is absorbing more of the sun's energy than is being emitted back into space, disrupting the planet's energy balance and resulting in global warming.
2006 broke the continental U.S. temperature record, while 2005 was the world's warmest year ever recorded, beating the previous record high set in 1998 and continue a general trend of rising temperatures dating back to 1980.
According to NASA, the polar ice cap is now melting at the rate of 9 percent per decade. Arctic ice thickness has decreased 40 percent since the 1960s.