May 03 2012
So, while your text does introduce the concept of carbon neutral it did not mention carbon offsets, which have become a hot ticket in “climate change mitigation.” There are many companies out there now marketing carbon offsets to reduce your “carbon footprint.” Terrapass is a popular one. You can offset one year’s worth of air [...]
Apr 30 2012
Since it is so close to the AP exam and all of you have fulfilled your scribe post obligations, I won’t start the list over. So, here is a collection of links from past classes on major air pollution issues and global climate change for those that missed class. While written a year or two [...]
Oct 23 2011
Note: A guest post by DanaeM from the other class since we have less students. In class Friday, we talked about the fifth factor that helps determine climate: Ocean currents. These ocean currents are effected by temperature, gravity, prevailing winds, the Coriolis Effect, and the distribution of continents. The resulting phenomena are gyres, upwelling, thermo [...]
Oct 16 2011
Today we talked about climate variety and 4 of 5 factors that determine it. 1. Unequal Heating of the Earth’s Surface A. The Earth is a sphere so as the angle of the impact of light increases, the amount of energy per meter squared that reaches the surface decreases. B. [...]
Oct 13 2011
Today in class we learned about the Structure of the Atmosphere. There are 5 layers; (from highest to lowest)Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, and the Troposphere. Today in class we focused on the Stratosphere and the Troposphere. We also discussed the differences between weather and climate. We narrowed it down to the two layers of the atmosphere, the Stratosphere and the Troposphere. [...]
