Thursday, February 22, 2018
02:00 - 04:00; 120 min. -
AP Environmental Science:
An Inconvenient Truth part 2 -
Chase was asked a series of questions relating to what she learned from the film: ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. We discussed the issues presented in the film, and how they were related to her experiences. The film was produced when Chase was a small child, and we explored how the subject of global warming has been expressed (or not represented at all) in her education. Chase was tasked with exploring her belief system related to pollution, climate change, and conservation. We will revisit these observations after researching the known science about these issues. Finally we explored some examples of biological vs physical changes that are related to CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere. The bird called the red dot and the horseshoe crab were one example of biological changes, as the horseshoe crab spawn when the seawater is at a certain temperature; the migratory red dot depends on that spawning event for sustenance mid-way through the very long migration. Changes in sea temperature makes if more likely the birds will miss the spawning event and go hungry.