Ray Rodriguez
Your viewpoint determines the future
Do ideas change?
There are usually some unexplainable occurrences that can not be explained. One action that happens in our everyday in our lives is weather and climate changes, since you cannot control the weather, your ideas do change as time and experiences happen. For a couple of years I have witnessed certain outcomes of weather related mishaps either as primary or secondary sources. In Mark Maslin’s “Your viewpoint determines the future” shows how certain forms of information can contradict certain views or ideologies to determine whether you have the same views of nature or if your ideas shift from time to time due to changes in view.
I have always seen nature as a powerful force that at any given time can just become unbalanced and very destructive. As shown and depicted by the graphs (Maslin 37, 39, and 40) one can see different views on how predicted weather patterns can occur; either never ending, stabilized, based on human affects, become unbalanced, or the point of no return. I clearly was shocked by these ideas even though I knew that climate changes will affect us in the long run but not to this extent. I was clearly shocked by this passage because the numbers and different outcomes are each a one/fourth chance of actually happening making all risks horrible out comes of global warming. Nature’s beauty is too wonderful to get rid of but even with certain ramifications we still can’t reverse the damages that have already been done.
Since I am always trying to figure out why things happen, I was clearly shocked by Maslin’s passage because I just thought that after global warming takes place some will survive; however, there is a point of no return and the planet will just shut down on itself causing an addition and change to how I view and how much more I should value my life. Knowing that I will be able to have newer knowledge through this passage, I will now be able to understand why certain scenarios are possibilities mainly because there isn’t always a happy ending to all fairy tails(like the world that we live in).
Global warming is a serious issue and since scientist find so many changes in what can be an outcome, my ideas are usually changing as well in order to be able to fully understand the topic that is known as Global warming.
Work Cited:
(Masslin, Mark) Global Warming a Very Short Introduction, New York: Oxford
University Press Inc, 2004
Monday, July 13, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Are We Really Being Told the Truth?
Ray Rodriguez
Blog
Global Warming
Are We Really Being Told the Truth?
The changes in time create different problems to be solved. Global warming, an unstoppable/irreversible problem that has put the planet of Earth into issues that cause major harms. The film, “An Inconvenient Truth, Dir. Davis Guggenheim, Perf. Al Gore, DVD, Paramount, 2005” has raised awareness to the topic of global warming. One potential problem to be aware of are the vast environment and climate changes in all over the world. The melting of glaciers and the ice caps has lead to droughts, harmful precipitation, and other natural disasters like tornadoes in Mid-West America, hurricanes in the Caribbean and the state of New Orleans with hurricane Katrina, and typhoons in Japan. The arctic creates reflecting shields to reflect the suns rays into space to create a stable climate and weather for the planet; according to "Global Warming" (Mark Maslin) the first diagram (The Earth’s annual global mean energy balance shows a detailed form of how the Earth absorbs and releases heat through the aid of the polar ice caps and how it transfers its energy through out. However, the melting of the ice caps causes an increase of sea level. Eventually, the raise in sea level will create a catastrophic change to areas where the sea level is lower, like New York City. The out come of spreading of water has lead to a spread of diseases like the West Nile Virus and Swine Flu due to heat expulsion, lack of water, and the air around precipitated water. Finally air bubbles collected by scientist’s show recent trends in the temperature changes “Kolbert, Elizabeth" The Climate of Man-II." The New Yorker 2 May 2005: 9” and graphs shown in "Global Warming" (Mark Maslin). This topic has been touched upon briefly by some political leaders who care about the environment like former Vice President for the Clinton Administration Al Gore but yet his actions are not enough to convince people globally. This eventually leads to how military wars could just break out if there is competition due to food shortages leading to survival of the fittest as shown in An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount , 2005.
Blog
Global Warming
Are We Really Being Told the Truth?
The changes in time create different problems to be solved. Global warming, an unstoppable/irreversible problem that has put the planet of Earth into issues that cause major harms. The film, “An Inconvenient Truth, Dir. Davis Guggenheim, Perf. Al Gore, DVD, Paramount, 2005” has raised awareness to the topic of global warming. One potential problem to be aware of are the vast environment and climate changes in all over the world. The melting of glaciers and the ice caps has lead to droughts, harmful precipitation, and other natural disasters like tornadoes in Mid-West America, hurricanes in the Caribbean and the state of New Orleans with hurricane Katrina, and typhoons in Japan. The arctic creates reflecting shields to reflect the suns rays into space to create a stable climate and weather for the planet; according to "Global Warming" (Mark Maslin) the first diagram (The Earth’s annual global mean energy balance shows a detailed form of how the Earth absorbs and releases heat through the aid of the polar ice caps and how it transfers its energy through out. However, the melting of the ice caps causes an increase of sea level. Eventually, the raise in sea level will create a catastrophic change to areas where the sea level is lower, like New York City. The out come of spreading of water has lead to a spread of diseases like the West Nile Virus and Swine Flu due to heat expulsion, lack of water, and the air around precipitated water. Finally air bubbles collected by scientist’s show recent trends in the temperature changes “Kolbert, Elizabeth" The Climate of Man-II." The New Yorker 2 May 2005: 9” and graphs shown in "Global Warming" (Mark Maslin). This topic has been touched upon briefly by some political leaders who care about the environment like former Vice President for the Clinton Administration Al Gore but yet his actions are not enough to convince people globally. This eventually leads to how military wars could just break out if there is competition due to food shortages leading to survival of the fittest as shown in An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount , 2005.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Ray Rodriguez
Summary
The Climate of Man
Global Warming
Global warming, an issue with potential solutions but no measures are being taken to help the issue. In all areas around the world there are hazards that are caused by global warming leading to harmed environments and a threat to other neighboring countries. Scientist have globally detected occurrences and have found evidence that causes one to believe the probable outcomes of global warming will eventually affect all races, ethnicity or religion. Alaskan’s are moving away from their homes in order to avoid the problem of being left stranded and without a home. The melting ice in Alaska causes a skeptic look on survival for certain areas in Alaska like the city of Shishmaref which is slowly loosing its land due to eroded torn away ice leading to higher elevations in sea level causing threat to the residents of that area according to (Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine 2005). In the area of Fairbanks there are constant deforestations and constant fires due to the heat causing “Drunken Trees” (Romanovsky, The New Yorker 2005). Also due to global warming, the country of Greenland is slowly melting away as it posses threats t other societies and areas like the eastern coast of the United States. Scientist in former President Jimmy Carter’s panel have raised awareness to the issue of pollution and Carbon dioxide emissions leading to the pollution and Global Warming but even then, it was too late to slow down the process, in other words the damage has already been done. Basically, society’s outcomes are from the affects of the past and previous disregard of the problem and when it is too late to solve the problem everyone who is innocent suffers the most.
Summary
The Climate of Man
Global Warming
Global warming, an issue with potential solutions but no measures are being taken to help the issue. In all areas around the world there are hazards that are caused by global warming leading to harmed environments and a threat to other neighboring countries. Scientist have globally detected occurrences and have found evidence that causes one to believe the probable outcomes of global warming will eventually affect all races, ethnicity or religion. Alaskan’s are moving away from their homes in order to avoid the problem of being left stranded and without a home. The melting ice in Alaska causes a skeptic look on survival for certain areas in Alaska like the city of Shishmaref which is slowly loosing its land due to eroded torn away ice leading to higher elevations in sea level causing threat to the residents of that area according to (Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Magazine 2005). In the area of Fairbanks there are constant deforestations and constant fires due to the heat causing “Drunken Trees” (Romanovsky, The New Yorker 2005). Also due to global warming, the country of Greenland is slowly melting away as it posses threats t other societies and areas like the eastern coast of the United States. Scientist in former President Jimmy Carter’s panel have raised awareness to the issue of pollution and Carbon dioxide emissions leading to the pollution and Global Warming but even then, it was too late to slow down the process, in other words the damage has already been done. Basically, society’s outcomes are from the affects of the past and previous disregard of the problem and when it is too late to solve the problem everyone who is innocent suffers the most.
Global Dubs
According to scientist in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), society's actions are taking a toll on the way we are currently living and how our future ancestors will live. The increase in the use of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants are slowly taking affect on the amount of control and the change of predictions that scientist have had on global warming which are projected to be catastrophic with a lead to either an over flow water or lack of water referred to as "water stress" (Masin, Mark, 2). Finally challenges of recognizing or neglecting current trends in the difficulties in understanding global warming will cause a lead to an increase of sea levels and amount of deforestation in the areas with an increase of heat or colder temperatures during the winter because of changes in climate, leading political leaders trying to help societies mishaps as it is too late to change our chances of reversing global warming.
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