Tuesday, April 1, 2008

"Inconvenient Truth" vs. "A Day at The Museum"

Well a day at the museum was quite fun because it was like another scavenger hunt getting to the specific area that was about global warming, but we found after 20 minutes. We finally found the place and searched for the key points that was assigned to each one of us. After we did our work we explored the museum until it got boring and wanted to leave but got lost and went on another scavenger hunt to the exit.
The information that we had to find was greenhouse gases, ice cores, tree rings, and ocean sediments. Greenhouse gasses consist of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The most important is water vapor, is the amount of carbon in the atmosphere increases the more the warmth. Ice cores gives a detailed record of climate for the last 115,000 years, it is important for understanding how the earth climate works. Tree Rings are sentive indicators of annual climate. Thick rings show the rapid growth during warm, wet years. Thin rings indicate slow growth in the dry years. They could also be chronologically extended back to thousands of years, but one can record the local climate. Ocean sediments show us the seasonal changes in biological activity where sediments are deposited. Light layers are formed during winter while dark ones for in the summer.
Overall the museum was very resourceful because it gave us information on the different types of fources that affect climate and how it affects global warming. The information was very easy to find because the place was pretty small and everything was close together. The movie "The Inconvenient Truth" and the "American Museum Of Natural History" were both believable in my opinion. The movie supplies us with a hand full of information, especailly when Al'gore gives us the statistics of how the earth is warming up as time goes by because of the amount carbon dioxide in the world, he also tells us if people keep on littering, waisting light, and pollution we all could be indanger of flooding to even the massive sun burning everything in sight. The museum is also credible because the facts are based on scientist who study, travel in space, and collect artifacts to show everyone who visits that it is a major issue and could get some educational knowledge on what is going on in this world today.
The film, museum, and media are all connected because it all compliments one another. The film and museum are a type of media because it is a type of entertainment but in a educational sense.
It is a pretty clever thing to do because every school, tourist, or even scientist interested in the matter will go out and observe the film and the museum to get an educational trip, amazement of it all, or the whole concept of how people should protect the world before it rejects us.
Humans today do not care about preserving the earth and should because the consequence will be a bad outcome. If we get people to care about little things like polution, recycling, preserving electricity this earth will be healthy and not back fire on us, but if people just stay the same way and not care, planet earth wont care.

1 comment:

C. Jason Smith said...

Right on! I'm looking forward to next week's post to see how YOU are going to help say the (people on the) planet.