My Science Homework

Today, we took a short quiz over the final units of the meteorology section of our class. These quizzes will be graded over the weekend and grades updated my early next week.
We then watched another 15 minutes or so of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. Students were again encouraged to jot down notes […]

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 […]

Today’s class started with a discussion about our probabilities of a white Christmas.  As you can see by the above map, our historical odds (averaged over the 30-year period from 1970-2000) are between 11 and 25%.  I would currently place our odds on the high end of that range, as it does appear as though […]