Climate Change

To add to what you've already learned about Climate Change, check out one of these Ted Talks: https://www.ted.com/topics/climate+change.

Pick one (or more) to watch, and then provide a summary of what you learned: main ideas of the talk, what the presenter was trying to get across, your reaction, etc.  Leave your summary as a comment in the comment section of this blog post.  Include your first name!

Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/12/12/pol-kent-kyoto-pullout.html

What does this mean? Why did Canada do this? What's the Kyoto Protocol? What other agreements have come since?  What will Canada do to reduce greenhouse emissions and address climate change?  What has BC's response been? Look into some of these questions, or ones of your own on the topic, and leave a comment with the results of your inquiry.

You may also want to think about Justin Trudeau's response to Peter Kent's arrogance in parliament -- the govt's environment minister would not allow opposition MPs to attend Durban, and then mocks an opposition MP for not attending! Check out Justin's explanation of his choice of words. And see what others thought of the parliamentary exchange.

Climate Change games

Climate Challenge: North Cascades National Park

http://www.northcascadeseft.org/

Try some of the games related to conserving resources and planning for the impacts of climate change. Feel free to comment here on what you thought about this site.

Copenhagen

Follow what's going on at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. Find other news sources on this, too, and please think about it and bring it up in class.

Climate Change

What did you learn from Mr. Lear's climate change presentation? Any issues or questions you have? Learn more about his topic at the Council of Forest Industries site.

Climate Change in Canada

Speech topic: The Impact of Climate Change on Canada

Source material: Environment Canada's Climate Change Posters, and/or other web-based resources

Audience: Bali Conference or a similar international convention on environmental issues

How to make it better: in addtion to documenting current and future effects of CC on Canada, make compelling arguments about what can be done to cope with impacts or change the future. You may also wish to offer a critique of what Canada or other nations are doing about Climate Change and related environmental issues.

Length/Requirements: digital copy due Jan 18th, audio or video or live version recommended. It should be about 300-500 words (about a 3 minute speech).

Feel free to leave a comment... what did you learn from the poster activity or the speech assignment?

Global Warming Simulation

Try this interactive game at http://www.globalwarminginteractive.com/. Let us know here (with a comment) what you think...

Climate Webquest

This one is quite simple... take one of the vocab words from the lesson on climate and sift some searches for a solid link which explains your topic -- a webpage or a graphic, even a video. Webpages should be informative and offer direct learning about the topic. Graphics should be clear/high-res and match the topic directly. Videos should be very brief and not frivolous... if you find something that's just plain funny we can see it separately. Leave your results here as a comment and we'll composite them as a "webflow." Do it twice (get a second vocab word). Make your comments like this:

insolation
http://ithacasciencezone.com/earthzone/lessons/07meteor/insolation.htm
Enrico Studenti