earth science

I would like you to read this article - relate it back to what you have been learning about with climate change, and then tell me what do you think we should do about it all?  Climate change can be kind of gloom and doom - people end up getting really depressed about it - so what can we do?  Anything? Nothing? Let me (and all of us) know.... 

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/09/warm-water-pacific-coast-algae-nino/

Student 1 response:

The article reveals that the changes in the water temperatures have led to the growth of poisonous algae, which is killing most of the aquatic animals. However, the article blames the carbondioxide released to the atmosphere. The article argues that the rising ocean water temperatures is attributable to the melting of the ice caps. The ice caps melt mainly due to global warming created by presence of carbondioxide in the air. Citing new research, the article suggests that heat waves like the blob may become more common and intense because of climate change.

Personally, I believe that there is hopes in reversing this worrying trend. Human being is the main cause of this problem. Human being should be held responsible and should change his ways. Human being is responsible for formation of companies and factories, manufacture of vehicles and destruction of trees. The same human being should be responsible for finding the solution to the problem of climate change.

Student 2 response

I always raise the question, what if human existed at the time of dinosaurs? I would imagine that humans would start their planes to save those creatures and spend the time and effort to make it happen. The argument that dinosaurs’ extinction was the reason that we had oil, it was the reason that we fly, drive and run factories. In the case of wheals, we should know first what are the termination that human activities are impacting on whales death. The weather is changing everywhere, this year Minnesota has the best weather, for February, no one can imagine having similar weather at this time. Can we say this the global warming effect? Can we say human activities are the cause? It might be the life cycle that we should not interact with.   

What you need to do

1. Respond to the article.

2. Respond to the two students responses .

3. Write your response under each section.