PDS APES 8th Period 2009-10

This is a video I’ve seen that will make you wonder about fuel emissions. Be ready. It’s kind of scary.

So, last year the APES text (published 2008) had a section on carbon offsets-first time I’ve seen it in a school textbook. 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 travel (an estimated 8,000 pounds [...]

We always hear a lot about “Global Warming” or “Global Climate Change,” but is there even any solid evidence to back it up? The truth is that, even though the idea that global climate is changing at an unnatural rate because of human activities is still not 100% proven to be fact, there have been [...]

Global climate change is a touchy subject due to its recent entanglement with politics. But politics aside, we can all look at the data report from the IPCC and agree that in the last 150 years our global climate has been growing increasingly warmer. Whether this warming is cause by anthropogenic actions is another story, [...]

*Note: Yet another guest post from Kevin H. in the other class as I forgot to ask for a scribe! At the end of class on Friday Mr Willard left us with 5 questions regarding global climate change. These questions were as follows: 1. Is the Earth warming? 2. If so, is this warming unnatural? [...]

*Note: This is a guest blog post by Coco in 5th period since I forgot to name a scribe. Last Friday, we discussed the origins of global warming. However, climate change is a more accurate term since some regions are cooling, not warming. First off, it must be established that not all greenhouse gases, like [...]