Posted: 10/1/2008 10:24:15 AM EDT
| Well I have to give a talk for my senior seminar class. The topic is anything related to climate change. I almost threw up a little when I learned the subject. Anyway, I must present a scientific (peer review) paper as if it were my own. It must take a scientific method approach (no editorials). It can be related to warming, cooling, sun spots, or whatever else. Let's see what papers ARFCOM can come up with. |
| Talk about previous ice ages -- lots of info about previous climate shifts has been dug up from ice cores in Greenland. Read, "the two mile time machine" by Richard Alley. (it has some "evil humans killing the environment" in it, but mostly a good account of digging up and analyzing data from thousands of years ago). |
You could talk about this:
banking.senate.gov/public/_files/latestversionAYO08C32_xml.pdf |
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| Climate Change is nothing new. It's been going on now for over 4 billion years. It swings between ice and warmth. Plate tectonics is the major driver of our Climate. Plus degree of Tilt of the Earths axis and distance from the Sun along with solar activity (sun spots). For good measure you can throw in comet and asteroid impacts and volcanism. Man's impact is negligible at best if any. Man may speed things up by a year or 2 but in geologic time our contributions don't even register. Climate Change cannot be stopped. Our climate will continue to change as it has since the beginning of our time till either the Sun dies or the Earth's core goes cold. |