Climate
Orlando Teen Sends Message To World Leaders
Reported by Central Florida News 13:
Reported by Janelle Jordan
ORLANDO — An Orange County eighth-grader is getting international attention.
Kira Myers, 13, of Windy Ridge School, produced a minute-long video that will be shown to 192 world leaders during the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
“I really feel like I’m making a difference, because if [...]
Glaciers Keep Melting
Atmosphere Journal (April 14, 2008)
Glaciers worldwide keep shrinking at an alarming rate, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The rate of thinning doubled from 2005 to 2006. The study looked at data from 30 glaciers in nine mountain ranges around the world.
On average, glaciers shrank by almost five feet (over 1.5 meters) in [...]
Practice Quizzes
Here are a couple of online practice quizzes about global climate change. They will help test some of your basic knowledge but do not cover all the material you will be responsible for on the test tomorrow. Just click the pictures below to take the quiz.
Click on this picture to do a review from the [...]
Global Warming
I hope you find the video presentation “An Inconvenient Truth” enlightening. Perhaps it will stimulate you to do further investigation into one of the most significant global issues of our time.
As you watch the video focus on the science; look for cause and effect. How do we know this? Why does this happen? So far [...]
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