AIR CON, Global Climate Change
May 7, 2009 by Richard van Dijk
Filed under School, learning
I just popped into the local post shop today and skimmed through Ian Wishart’s AIR CON. Since I am studying Climate change with my Year 10 class this seemed interesting. It is a look at the other side of the debate on climate change and since I share clips from An Inconvenient Truth it does seem important to look at both sides of the issue. So it certainly gives a lot of figures and the referencing is great which allows us to make up our own minds. Looks like I will have to get one for the department.
I did however feel sad as while people are entitled to their opinion as to if Climate Change is happening I hope this doesn’t distract us from the fact that the world is in a pretty messy state and any message that forces us to tidy up a bit has merit.
there is one of the TED talks that deals with this too. Talks about how the temp of the earth is NOT actually heating up it is a function of the way we measure it:
* Many measurement places are at airports which historically were just outside major cities.
* they are now surrounded by these cities
* the daytime temps have NOT gone up – it is the nighttime ones
* now airports are surrounded by cities it is a function of the thermal inertia of the surrounding environment.
interesting stuff …. and sorry I can’t remember who it was. May be able to each the TED site?