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Lab 3: Carbon-Life as a Greenhouse Gas
The lab activity described here was developed by Candace Dunlap of TERC for the EarthLabs project.Use the button at the right to navigate to the student activity pages for this lab. To open the student pages in a new tab or window, right-click (control-click on a Mac) the "Open the Student Activity" button and choose "Open Link in New Window" or "Open Link in New Tab."
Investigation Summary and Learning Objectives
Students use an animation, charts, and a short video to learn the basics of greenhouse chemistry, including what carbon compounds exist in the atmosphere and their relationship to the greenhouse effect. Students then compare historical ice core carbon dioxide and marine sediments temperature data to establish the relationship between global temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Finally, they analyze graphics of global and U.S carbon emissions to identify types and sources of carbon dioxide and watch a video about how satellite technology is used to track carbon fluxes over the United States.
After completing this investigation, students will be able to:
- Identify the important greenhouse gases and describe the role of greenhouse gases in warming the atmosphere.
- Describe how ice core data and other historical CO2 and temperature data reveal the relationship between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature.
- Identify types and sources of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States and the World.
For more information about the TOPIC, read the section titled Background Information under Additional Resources below
Activity Overview
In Part A: Students use an animation, charts, and a short video to learn the basics of greenhouse gas chemistry, including what carbon compounds exist in the atmosphere and their relationship to the greenhouse effect.
In Part B: Students use a graph and videos on historical ice core CO2 data in order to investigate the relationship between ices ages, interglacial periods and changes in CO2 levels. Students then examine more current CO2 and temperature to establish the relationship between current trends in global temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. They use CarbonTracker, developed by NOAA, to investigate and compare atmospheric carbon dioxide time series sampled from different parts of the world.
In Part C: Students use a carbon footprint calculator developed by The Nature Conservancy. They input family household data such as family's energy usage and are then able to compare their carbon footprint with each others and with the world.
Printable Materials
To download one of the PDF or Word files below, right-click (control-click on a Mac) the link and choose "Save File As" or "Save Link As."- Stop and Think Questions Labs 3A, 3B and 3C (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 50kB Feb11 14)
- Suggested Answers to Stop and Think Questions Labs 3A, 3B, and 3C with answers (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 111kB Feb11 14)
Teaching Notes and Tips
In Part A:
By the end of Part A, students should have constructed an understanding of the relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature of the atmosphere. They will then apply this understanding in Lab 2-B, when they analyze graphs of historical carbon dioxide data.
You may want to have a discussion about the size of the atmosphere in the first image comparing the atmospheres of Mars, Venus and the Earth. Note that the ratio of the thickness of the atmosphere size to the diameter of the three planets is exaggerated for visual effect and that it is important for students to understand that the Earth's atmosphere is not that thick in relation to the Earth's diameter. To get a sense of the thickness of the troposphere and stratosphere layers of the atmosphere, try this simple exercise. Use a compass to draw a circle with a radius of 127 mm. This circle represents the Earth and the inner-most atmosphere. The 1 mm line drawn by your pencil represents the average thickness of the first two layers of the atmosphere: the troposphere, the region of weather, and the stratosphere, which protects us from most of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
In Part B:
As with all the graphs, you may want to spend time projecting the graphs on the board and going over the graph elements with them.
Graph: CO2, Temperature and ice ages.
Students need to spend some time analyzing the first graph on CO2, ice ages and temperatures. By asking them to look for "elements of a story" in this graph, students will start to see that the changes in atmospheric CO2 are related to changes in temperature. You may want to talk about Milankovitch cycles and ice ages depending on your classes but it is not necessary. Students simply need to see that trends in carbon dioxide seem to correlate with trends in temperature and ice ages over the past 800,00 years.
As with any graph, it might be a good idea to project this graph on the board so you can have a class discussion on what the elements of the graph are.
Some resources are included below.
The Keeling Curve:
This is an iconic historical graph so you may to talk a little bit about the history. You will need to talk about variability versus the trend of the line. The "squiggy" lines represent seasonal variations in CO2 dioxide due primarily to seasonal changes in the photosynthetic rates of deciduous forests.
Rather than give students a graph that illustrates where scientists think the CO2levels will be in the year 2100, students should be able use a variety of strategies, such as line of best fit. You may want to consider putting the Keeling Curve up on the smartboard or overhead and then ask students to carryout the discussion. They use CarbonTracker, developed by NOAA, to investigate and compare atmospheric carbon dioxide time series sampled from different parts of the world - including the Keeling Curve data from Mauna Loa. They examine carbon dioxide time series data from at least three sampling sites around the world and then describe the overall trends of CO2 at each site. When students compare their graphs from around the world, they will see both similarities (trends of rising CO2) and differences (example - some show greater variability and some less). These similarities and differences will generate some rich discussions.
In Part C:
Students explores ways to reduce their family's carbon footprint. Students may not have some of the information they need to input so teachers may need to have information ready for some "typical families" and/or work with students to make a best "guesstimate." There are many carbon footprint calculators on the web which my be more appropriate based on student age.
Student Notebooks
Student notebooks are optional. Here are just a few suggestions for what to include in student notebooks for Lab 3:
Note: You may want to separate actual data collection and analysis into a Lab Notebook.
- Drawings and notes from videos, animations and discussions
- Drawings of models and any revisions
- Notes and data from the Keeling Curve analysis.
- Notes, data and drawings from the Carbon Tracker Activity
- Notes from the Carbon Footprint activity comparing your carbon footprint with the world's average.
There are several options for assessments of students understanding of material produced in this Lab. Teachers can choose from the following list or create their own assessments.Assessment Options:
- Assess student understanding of topics addressed in this investigation by grading their responses to the Stop and Think questions.
- Teachers may want to assess students' analysis of their CarbonTracker activity in Lab 3B
- Written Test for Lab 3 (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 118kB Jan21 14) (Answer Key (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 165kB Jan21 14))
State and National Science Teaching Standards
Developer will correlate activity to standards listed at this site:
National Science Education Standards (SRI)Additional Resources
Background Information
Wikipedia: Milankovitch Cycles
Content Extension
Consider doing the "How Heavy is My Carbon Footprint" activity in the Content Extension section with your entire class.
Use the Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator to help you translate abstract measurements into concrete terms you can understand, such as "equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide emissions of 183,000 cars annually."


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Tamar Jacoby ("Kiss the Melting Pot Goodbye," Nov. 19) finds my interpretation of the Constitution's Citizenship Clause "alarming" because it would permit Congress "to exclude illegal immigrants by statute" rather than by constitutional amendment. Ms. Jacoby's argument demonstrates a misunderstanding of the Constitution's mandate and the political theory on which it is based.
The 14th Amendment provides that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens . . . ." To treat the last clause as describing merely territorial jurisdiction, as Ms. Jacoby does, is to render the clause superfluous. Even temporary visitors are subject to U.S. jurisdiction in that sense; everyone here has to obey our traffic laws, for example. The clause must therefore mean something much more -- an allegiance-owing jurisdiction.
The debates in the Congress that approved the clause, and the unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court justices who first interpreted it, confirm this understanding. Sen. Reverdy Johnson of Maryland explained during floor debate, for example, that "all this amendment provides is, that all persons born in the United States and not subject to some foreign power -- for that no doubt is the meaning of the committee who have brought the matter before us -- shall be considered as citizens of the United States." The author of the provision, Sen. Jacob Howard, announced that the clause "will not, of course, include foreigners."
The Supreme Court first considered the clause in the Slaughter-House Cases of 1872, unanimously recognizing that the phrase "was intended to exclude from its operation children of . . . citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States." This view was confirmed in the 1883 case of Elk v. Wilkens. The phrase, according to the court, meant "not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction, and owing them direct and immediate allegiance." Children of temporary visitors to the United States, particularly those who are here illegally, owe primary allegiance to their parent's country, not to the U.S., and are therefore not guaranteed citizenship by the terms of the 14th Amendment.
Congress retains the power to offer citizenship more broadly than the Constitution requires, of course, pursuant to its plenary authority over naturalization. To date, it has not done so. In 1898, the Supreme Court raised the citizenship floor mandated by the Constitution slightly, to include children of legal, permanent residents who, by virtue of a treaty with the Chinese emperor, were never eligible for citizenship themselves. But to read the holding in Wong Kim Ark as determining that the Constitution also mandates automatic citizenship to children of temporary, illegal immigrants not only presses the Constitution's text beyond the breaking point, but significantly intrudes on Congress's plenary power over naturalization.
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Chapman University School of Law
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Dear friends Baba Ramdev is an internationally renowned Yoga Guru, Motivator, Promoter of Ayurveda & is actively involved in social service. He has been Demonstrating against some of the government policies. As the government is not taking desireable action against black money which is around 400 million billion INR and corruption. He is praised by the masses but CRITICISED BY SO CALLED POLITICIANS as he is putting every black and white in front of the public of India.
What I Percieve rubrics of Baba Ramdev's personality from friends, Society, Magazines News papers and other sources, I just analysed them. It may be possible that you might differ with me in the selection of some traits of his presonality, but this is mine perception after all.
MIND - TRUTH - telling the plain truth
MIND - RECTIFYING - desire to rectify
MIND - CURSING - rage - in
MIND - CURSING - restrain himself in order not to curse; has to
MIND - SELF-CONTROL - increased
MIND - AMBITION - increased - fame; for
MIND - AMBITION - increased - means employed; every possible
MIND - FIGHT, wants to - helpless people; for
MIND - INJUSTICE, cannot support
MIND - POLITICS - ability for
MIND - POLITICS - occupied with politics; too
MIND - POLITICS - aversion to political engagement
MIND - DISCUSS - political disputes, inclined to
MIND - EXCITEMENT - debate, during
MIND - EFFICIENT, organized
MIND - LOQUACITY - religious subjects, about
MIND - LOQUACITY - question after another; asks one
MIND - LOQUACITY - changing quickly from one subject to another
MIND - ANXIETY - health; about - others; of
MIND - SIMPLE persons
MIND - PHILOSOPHY - ability for
MIND - IDEAS - abundant
MIND - ACTIVITY - desires activity - creative activity
MIND - MEMORY - active
MIND - REASON increased, power of
MIND - DEEDS - great deeds; sensation as if he could do
MIND - USEFUL; desire to be
MIND - WILL - strong will power
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Thanks A lot Dr. Sanjay Solunke.
Very nice perception Dr. Vikas . Yours point of disposition and its follow through to morbid symptoms is worth applause. But real personality needs deduction from what is observed and what is told and provided. if that is possible here in the discussion, where we can put our analysis of observed traits and deduced totality, then discussion will be much fruitful and interesting.
The way he smiles ( cunning smile ) , the way he reacts in a crisis ( ran away furiously in front of media ), the way he addresses others ( ajay bhai...to the news reporter when they put some bitter question) , the ostentation and money game in his camps, the allegations ( that he captured ashram ) etc etc ....all these can be discussed as a part of personality.
Dr. Mittu I highly appreciate your view point, Please read I have written that it is my observation and I analysed whatever I observed, There are always two sides of coin may be I am missing the one or...
Absolutely Dr. Verma. You already mentioned that. It was my suggestion only.You didn't miss anything. i was suugesting the another angle to observe simply. As Topic you posted is really interesting and different perspectives must be posted by other respected doctors as well. As it will not only enhance our repertory knowledge but rather it will enhance case-taking and materia-medica knowledge as well. I must say, Your selection of rubrics is appreciable.
Thanks a lot Dr. Meakin Mittu .
This incident is an interesting twist to this post. The reaction of Baba Ramdev when his gathering was raided by police and he was expected to be arrested...instead of boldly facing up he jumped of the stage and escape in the guise of a lady. Wasn't this cowardice!
A persons reaction to stress give the key -often
Dr. Valerian Mendonca what rubric will you suggest owing to your observation?
Escape, desires to run away
Fear responsibility
Charlatan ( If proved )
These are likely rubrics which if confirmed may indicate lycopodium...once someone comes on strongly then he will become submissive. Domineering to inferior, timid with superior
As per your observation I think you want to say about this rubric
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Well yes, thats more precise
ambition increased
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Quote:Hi Gord. I believe we have a larger problem here of communicating our anectdotal experiences at the eyepiece. I don't doubt for a second that we have here some trade offs but it's awfully hard to qualify them accurately. Take for instance my comments about comparing my 8" Brandt to my 10" Istar. You must remember that when using my 8" over the last 30 years that the GRS was noticeably a deeper red than it is today. Heck it really faded a few years back as the SEB nearly vanished completely. Also with the exception of that one night of detecting albedo features on Ganymede I haven't really had any knockout good seeing. That night the super good seeing was short lived and the GRS was not visible at that time. Also the GRS now is more of a pinkish orange color. How's that for making up a color shade? I believe seeing plays a much larger role than optics or a person's individual eyesight compared to another's. You really need to have the scopes side by side to come to any meaningful conclusions here. Otherwise it just makes for fun conversation and speculation and not much else. I'm very satisfied with my lens and I feel that when some good seeing comes it will "knock my socks off" most assuredly. Oh and another thing that in telling these recollections at the eyepiece this lens is still in the process of acclimating to current temps and at any given moment I have no idea how far along it is in the "cooling" process. Most nights I close up shop well before the lens ever reaches total equilibrium I'm sure. Mike
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Quote: Oh Mike,Forgot to ask you... what do you feel about the 6" F8 achro with and w/o the Chromacor relative to your triplet in terms of Jupiter performance? Again, more data-points.
Quote:the new one's that APM has. In their case, they are a little different still than the IStar's since they both use ED glass as well. The Chinese one uses the older LaF glass, while I think the Russian one is using something like the FPL-53 glass. Because they use ED glass, they are better corrected to start with than an achromat.However, they apparently are tuned as well to focus on reducing the traditional false color as well. Since they are starting out ahead of the achromat to begin with, they don't have as far to go, so aren't going to be as affected. But it's still not going to be as ideal (again for our Jupiter example) as a normally corrected ED.
Quote:A quick note to the discussion on the refractor forum regards correction of our chinese and LZOS 152 doublet ED. both are not designed to reduce purple and increase red spotts. Both are correct designed, optimized for visual observations, tthe classic tradional metthod !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote:Here's a reply from Markus, who as you know is no longer allowed to post in this forum, so he posted this in the vendors forum:Quote:A quick note to the discussion on the refractor forum regards correction of our chinese and LZOS 152 doublet ED. both are not designed to reduce purple and increase red spotts. Both are correct designed, optimized for visual observations, tthe classic tradional metthod !!!!!!!!!!!!!Comments anybody?
Quote:Recently on the Istar scope club Ales K ( an part owner of istar) has released spot diagrams of 6 different 150 mm doublets and triplets. The red spot sizes are larger but not hugely larger than the blue spot sizes. Although the actual wavelength versus focus sketches are missing.
Quote:I chiefly observe in seeing that is typically 6-8/10. The suggestion a scope can show the detail of the 10 inch processed pic continuously put forward surprises me.
Johnny FS152 15" Obsession Classic w/ 14.5" f/4.65 Zambuto
Quote:ValeryWas it a well controlled fair test ? Same observer, night, eyepiece, mag, aperture etc on same object.Or is what you are talking(comparison of four 5 inch refractors) about just an impression.Kevin
Quote: How close am I on this?
Quote: Gord, the Chromacor can be "fiddly", but once adjusted properly It does work! In my C6R w/o the CC, I would never turn the scope to Jupiter as It's just a purple mess!With the CC however the purple is gone and the Image is very much Improved, however the AT111EDT is still in a league of It's own. The detail and contrast of the Triplet is just amazing. I'm not sure If It's the glass used or ??? but the AT111EDT puts up a super rich view (contrast?) of Jupiter that I haven't seen in many other scopes. It's similar to the effect the TV Plossls have on Jupiter as well.Also, as a side note, This past summer, A friend and I (Tank) were viewing with his RFT 6" F5 Refractor and decided to see how the CC would do with the newer "red shifted glass" (on Vega).Answer......amazing! w/o the CC, Vega was a mess with the CA extending to about the size of a Full Moon (viewed with naked eye). With the CC in place (no spacing), The CA was reduced to a size maybe 2X or 3X the size of the Star. An amount similar to what's seen in the older (Semi) Apo Triplets, or ED scopes. And this was a 6" F5 scope, so I'm sure the F5.9 or F6.5 version would fare better.
Quote:Thanks for sharing this piece of info.
Quote: In your opinion, where do you think a Chromacor equipped achro would fit? Or, based on what you were describing in terms of different scopes, do you think it could fit at many levels in the list based on how close of "fit" it is to the scope, and/or it's individual setup in the scope?I've heard the comments about the need to be precise with the setup before and plenty of negative comments if it is off, and positive ones where it is on. So it seems like it's likely something like the latter I describe. I wonder where it could theoretically be at it's best?It would be good to hear from more users.
Quote:I can add one important thing: the optical designers in a past knew the optics and human eye work not any bit worser than todays designers. And I think they knew optics better. All fundamental investigations in this field were done at that old good times. All classical telescopes were designed by masters and be sure, they experimented with different designs and chooses which work best.
Quote:I guess I don't understand all the fuss going on here about a designers choice in balancing out the red and blue spot sizes.
Quote:I looked at spot diagram of TSA-102. http://www.takahashi-europe.com/en/TSA-102.optics.spots.htm TSA-102 has much tighter focus on the blue end but FS-102 is much tighter on the red end.Does it mean FS-102 is really that much better on Jupiter or Mars?I both owned FS-102 and TSA-102 but the answer was no for my case even though the view was so close.
Quote:BTW Mike, when you used your Chromacor on the 6" F5, you were probably stopping down the aperture slightly with the nose of the Chromacor. Your color correction improvement may have been, in part, due to the stop down.
Quote:Gord you say "Again, there is no perfect design, so it makes sense if they aren't as good at planetary, they may be very well suited to something else."It seems you have convinced yourself to this end. (the istar R30 design does not perform as well as an C F corrected achromat on planets) based on spot diagrams.You have however not seen through an R30 scope with your own eyes and in fact are making assumptions based on what a vendor has said before about other scopes.This (Valery's insinuation directed at the R30 Istar scopes) reminds me a bit of Newton dismissing Cassegrain's scope design a few centuries ago.I think his thread is unfair in this respect to 2 vendors (Istar and APM). They are being dismissed theoretically without any concrete evidence.No one has done a comparison with an istar R30 and a similar C F achromat.I guess at least folks are not still claiming they use the same glass as normal F2 BAK 7 fraunhofer achromats.Casting dispersions can be unfair when they are not supported by hard facts.Kevin Barker
Matt in Oz
Takahashi Mewlon 210 F11.5 = 2415mm
Takahashi TSA120 F7.5 (out on loan) = 900mm
Takahashi FC76CSV F7.5 = 570m
Takahashi FS60CB F5.9 = 355mm
Quote:Jeff, Do you think (from the Diagrams) that Markus's APM 150mm F8 ED (Chinese) Refractor would be better, equal, or worse than a C6R/CC1?Mike


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Jennifer Holliday appeared with the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington for "And I Am Telling You," the group's annual Pride concert, Saturday, June 4 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 5 at 3 p.m. at Lisner Auditorium on the campus of the George Washington University. Metro Weekly's Justin Stewart sat down with Miss Holliday during intermission, and Aram Vartian captured moments from the historic concert.
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United States of Africa
The United States of Africa is a proposed concept for a federation of some or all of the 55 sovereign states of Africa.[1][2]
Former Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, who was the 2009 Chairperson of the African Union (AU), advanced the idea of a United States of Africa at two regional African summits: first in June 2007 in Conakry, Guinea,[3] and again in February 2009 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[4] Gaddafi had previously pushed for its creation at a summit at Lomé, Togo in 2000,[5] having described the AU as a failure on a number of occasions; Gaddafi asserted that only a true pan-African state can provide stability and wealth to Africa. A number of senior AU members also support the proposed federation, believing that it could bring peace to a 'new' Africa.[6] Alpha Oumar Konaré, former President of Mali and former Chairperson of the African Union Commission, spoke in favor of the concept at the commemoration of Africa Day, on May 25, 2006.[7]
The "United States of Africa" was mentioned first by Marcus Garvey in his poem 'Hail, United States of Africa'[8] in 1924. Garvey's ideas deeply influenced the birth of the Pan-Africanist movement which culminated in 1945 with the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, United Kingdom, attended by W. E. B. Du Bois, Patrice Lumumba, George Padmore, Jomo Kenyatta, Dudley Thompson, and Kwame Nkrumah.[1] Later, Nkrumah and Haile Selassie took the idea forward to form the 37 nation Organisation of African Unity, the precursor of the African Union.[9]
The idea of a multinational unifying African state was noted in the French publication Le Monde diplomatique as a successor to the medieval African empires: the Ethiopian Empire, the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire, the Benin Empire, the Kanem Empire, and other historic nation states.[10]
The proposed federation would have the largest total territory of any state, exceeding the Russian Federation. It would also be the third most populous state after China and India, and with a population speaking an estimated 2,000 languages.
Potential development[edit]
In February 2009, upon being elected chairman of the 53-nation African Union in Ethiopia, Gaddafi told the assembled African leaders: "I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa."[11] The BBC reported that Gaddafi had proposed "a single African military force, a single currency and a single passport for Africans to move freely around the continent". Other African leaders stated they would study the proposal's implications, and re-discuss it in May 2009.[4]
The focus for developing the United States of Africa far has been on building subdivisions of Africa - the proposed East African Federation can be seen as an example of this. Former President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, has indicated that the United States of Africa may exist from as early as 2017.[12] The African Union, by contrast, has set itself the task of building a "united and integrated" Africa by 2025.[13] Gaddafi had also indicated that the proposed federation may extend as far west as the Caribbean: Haiti, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and other islands featuring a large African diaspora, may be invited to join.[14]
National views[edit]
The nations of Eritrea, Ghana, Senegal, Zimbabwe, and Cape Verde have supported an African federation.[15][16] Others such as South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria have shown less interest in the idea.[1] Support appears to be inversely proportional to a nation's power and influence. Doubts have been raised about whether the goal of a unified Africa can ever be achieved while ongoing problems of conflict and poverty persist throughout the continent.[17]
Gaddafi also received criticism for his involvement in the movement, and lack of support for the idea from among other African leaders.[18] A week before Gaddafi's death during the Libyan civil war, South African President Jacob Zuma expressed relief at the regime's downfall, complaining that Gaddafi had been "intimidating" many African heads of state in an effort to gain influence throughout the continent and suggesting that the African Union will function better without Gaddafi and his repeated proposals for a unitary African government.[19]
In fiction[edit]
In the fictional Star Trek universe, the United States of Africa exist as a nation of the United Earth Government, within the Federation. Officer Uhura originates from the states. in the fictional Halo (series) universe, the United States of Africa exist as a nation of the United Earth Government, within the United Nations Space Command.
- ^ a b c "Ambitious plan for a new Africa: Welcome to the U.S.A (that's the United States of Africa)". The Independent. 30 June 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
- ^ Thabo Mbeki (9 July 2002). "Launch of the African Union, 9 July 2002: Address by the chairperson of the AU, President Thabo Mbeki". ABSA Stadium, Durban, South Africa: africa-union.org. Retrieved 8 February 2002.
- ^ Gaddafi Calls for a "U.S." of Africa, from Mafé Tiga blog, July 1, 2007
- ^ a b AU summit extended amid divisions, from BBC News, 4 February 2009
- ^ "United States of Africa?", from BBC News, 11 July 2000
- ^ Gaddafi urges pan-African state, from BBC News, 26 June 2007
- ^ Statement of the UA Commission Chairperson
- ^ Hail, United States of Africa
- ^ The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. (2007). "Organization of African Unity". HighBeam Research. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
- ^ Would a United States of Africa work?, from Le Monde diplomatique (English edition), September 2000
- ^ "Gaddafi vows to push Africa unity". BBC. 2 Feb.
- ^ "African Union & African Diaspora Leaders in Harlem: Pres Wade call for United States of Africa, 2017". TheBlackList Pub. 25 September 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
- ^ United States of Africa - A Wishful Thinking, from AfricaLoft, republished 4 February 2009
- ^ United States of Africa may take off in 2017, says Wade, from Guardian Newspapers, published 13 February 2009
- ^ "Cape Verde president: United States of Africa on the horizon". Sambala Devolopments. 22 July 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
- ^ "Gaddafi calls for United States of Africa, one army". Mmegi Online. 16 December 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
- ^ 'United States of Africa' Still an Idea Ahead of Its Time, from World Politics Review, 13 July 2007
- ^ Gadhafi pledges 'United States of Africa', from msnbc, 2 February 2009
- ^ "AU better without 'intimidating' Gaddafi - Zuma". News24. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
See also[edit]
- African Union
- Arab Union
- Demographics of Africa
- Federal Europe
- Pan-African Parliament
- United States of Latin Africa