The final unit of the year: Climate change. We will be spending several days studying the climate change debate from the scientific viewpoint. We began by discussing the history of climate change on the earth. In a nutshell: the earth’s climate is indeed changing and it always has been. What sets the current changes apart from the others is that they are going on while humans are keenly aware: we are studying the climate more than ever before. We are becoming increasingly aware of the smallest changes, the implications, and funding continues to increase to further study climate change.

Today’s objective was to gain a better understanding of the history of climate change. The test-grade paper was also introduced. All students were given copies of the Climate Change Paper outline form. All students are encouraged to start this paper TONIGHT! Since the paper is expected to be detailed and in-depth, giving attention to the project over several different days/evenings is the best way to complete the project on time. The paper is due on Wednesday, May 21st. Due to the end of the semester grading deadlines, absolutely no late papers will be accepted.

Tomorrow we will continue watching Film #1:  Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.  Then we will follow that by watching a second film:  The Great Global Warming Swindle.  For now, you should focus your energy on completing the first of four parts of the paper:  The history of the Earth’s climate.

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More resources on the history of the Earth’s climate change:

• Reconstructing the Earth’s Climate History
• If global warming is real, what could be causing it?