This blog is the journal of my personal exploration of the topic of climate change. It will serve as a log of information, resources, and tools that can be used in a classroom setting. As I begin exploring this topic, I hope to lay down a solid foundation of the basic principles behind climate science, particularly those that are essential to understanding climate change. Some things might be overly simple and obvious, others might be more difficult to grasp, but I believe that climate change isn't something that only the most educated scientists and researchers can understand. It isn't, after all, rocket science. It's climate, something that we all experience first hand every day.
As an introduction to the concept of climate change, I offer an ecological footprint quiz. You can take the quiz here. At the end of the quiz you are given the number of earths we would need to provide the resources and process the carbon emissions for your particular lifestyle. I feel this is a good place to begin considering that not everyone consumes the same amount of earth's resources or has the same amount of impact on the environment and the atmosphere. Hopefully this will get the wheels turning on the finiteness of our Earth and the fact that we all have to share the same resources.
As an introduction to the concept of climate change, I offer an ecological footprint quiz. You can take the quiz here. At the end of the quiz you are given the number of earths we would need to provide the resources and process the carbon emissions for your particular lifestyle. I feel this is a good place to begin considering that not everyone consumes the same amount of earth's resources or has the same amount of impact on the environment and the atmosphere. Hopefully this will get the wheels turning on the finiteness of our Earth and the fact that we all have to share the same resources.
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