Well on our visit to the museum we researched on what causes climate and climate change. We visited the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth. There we learned how people were able to find the climate from years ago through ice cores, ocean sediments, and tree rings. Ice cores give a detailed record of the climate 115,000 years ago. The tree rings indicate the annual climate. It has thick rings to indicate rapid growth during warm, wet years. Thin rings tell a slow growth and cold, dry years. One tree only records local climate. Ocean sediments indicate biological activity in the waters. Through the layers you see the amount of carbon that was produced because of the cold weather, they come out thinner and richer layers. In addition to that, we found out about the greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases consist if 4 gases, water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The gases are essential to the earth in order to regulate temperature. But the more gases in the atmosphere wouldn't make it livable on the earth because of high temperature.
Relating the museum to the film, The Inconvenient Truth, I realized that a lot of what was being said in the film was actually at the museum. Al Gore spoke about ice cores in his film and I really got an understanding about what he was saying in the museum. He described most of the greenhouse gases in his film as well and how they affect us and the temperature, and what is going on with the world because of the effect on greenhouse gases. I've been to the museum before and saw this part of it but i really never paid attention to it. But watching The Inconvenient Truth really convinced me, he described everything so well.
Being in this cluster i didn't really understand what was the whole thing behind Dr.Smith not using paper. I realized that he is going green and it relates to all this going on in film. He is trying to get us to use as less as paper in the class to help the world. I understand what going green is about now, and why people should go green. I'm ready to make changes to live longer and make this place a better place to live on.
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I do agree with you on no paper theory of Dr. Smith. and You like movie better then exhbition may be because some people love to see filmed things ( more focusing on one subject with opinions) rather then making their own opnions to the subject and one last thing the film name begin with "An" not The
Im glad you got the paper thing! I would go through, easily, two CASES of paper a semester. But, the important thing is that other teachers are starting to think about, at least, using less.
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