Paradise Lost?
Artistic Representations Ideas
- Tree Ring Data and creation of tree core
- Ice Ring Data creation of an ice core
- Poetry
- Photography
- Wordle
- Write and illustrate a children’s’ book
- Paintings
- Graphs showing earth's tempreature, CO2 levels
Harbingers
Events that foreshadow the types of impacts likely to become more frequent and widespread with continued warming.
The following events are identified as global warming harbingers: Website
- Spreading disease by increase in viruses and sickness
- Ealier Spring / Shorter Winters
- Less Ice in the Artics
- Increase in mosquito population
- Increase in sea level
- Increase in China and India industry
- What's happening to Greenland?
- Length of time Friendship Lake has been frozen over 100 years
- Coral bleaching
Causes
- methane
- Greenhouse gases - CO2, nitrous oxide, methane (CH4)
- Water Vapor - greenhouse gas
- Industry (industrial revolution)
- Deforestation
- World population increase
- Population moves to the suburbs
Sources to help us determine what's going on?
- ice cores
- tree cores
- maps/data/graphs
- phenology (when birds, insects, amphibians hybernate, arrive and leave) (When lakes freeze and thaw)
- population of animals, mamals, insects
- Glacial retreats
What about Greenhouse Skeptics?
Useful Websites
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