Cartoon drawing of Climate Change

Figure 1: This is one of the first photos I looked at when I started learning about Climate Change. It shows two different major ways that the environment can be affected from climate change, being extreme heat or more precipitation. It is interesting due to the fact that many think that Climate change is just Global warming from the Greenhouse effect, but it is actually more than that and this picture points that out nicely.

Link to photo HERE

Political Cartoon about who climate change is caused by and who it affects

Figure 1: This picture is a good description of why climate change matters. It depicts the larger industrialized nations who actually pollute causing climate change which is going to wipe out the more developing countries. This basically is true to some parts because as larger and wealthier countries we can afford to adapt whereas smaller developing countries are unable to with climate change. Its also important to note that certain areas are more susceptible to dangerous climate change and most are not in the countries that are causing, so it may not directly hurt us, but its a global issue not a personal issue.

Link to Image Here

Homework 18 Linked

LINK to homework 18

Carbon Capture and Storage: The Myth?

Some flaws associated with carbon capture and storage:

     - One flaw that comes with the idea of CCS is that it is economically straining, if there were a good way to develop this technology it would be very expensive, probably more so than to actually find more efficient ways of energy besides coal and other fossil fuels that are burned.
     - Another flaw is that there is little true knowledge about how this technology works, and whether it would achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions and how efficient it will be for reducing coal depletion.
     - There is also the dilemma of trying to find locations to store this, because surely most people    would not want it to be stored underneath their towns or cities and it is still questionable how much we can truly store.
     - With this technology it could lead to the wrong assumption that with much of this carbon getting stored that they can use more coal, which during coal mining methane, another carbon based pollutant, is released and may not be as successful of an idea based on cost that they believed.

The Fatal flaw:
  
     - The biggest issue that seems to arise from the discussion of CCS is the fact that there could be leakage and even with little release into the atmosphere can cause serious harm to species and would detract from the intended effect of reducing carbon emissions.


SOURCES:
http://www.rtcc.org/2012/10/02/carbon-capture-and-storage-time-to-bury-the-myth/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage#Environmental_effects

Test 2 Link

Here is the LINK TO TEST 2

Climate Change Models

Here is the link to HOMEWORK 16

Link to Blog about "Medieval Warming Period" and "Little Ice Age"

Here is the Link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kl7xxp-kpjGTP-dDuw-jenyWnCK8EPY-hDck_Q5QJn8/edit?usp=sharing