Tuesday, April 1, 2008

An Inconvenient Truth and the trip to the American Museum of Natural History

My report on my trip to the American Museum of Natural History is basically based on global warming. The information I found at the museum is how the ice cores record the climate from 115,000 years back. Also how the layers in the ice cores tells us how the climate increases over the years. How the solar radiation warms the Earth's surface and how it is radiated back to the atmosphere where it is trapped in the greenhouse gases. I have learned what are the causes of global warming and how it is dramatically have changed over the years. The information and diagrams were clear on global warming on what was the difference between now and then. The connection I have made between on what I have saw at the museum from the film An Inconvenient Truth is both described global warming and how it is affecting our environment and how it dramatically changed. I have found the museum more believe able because you can see for yourself how the climate has changed and how it is affecting us. Even though the film explained it well but it did not made a huge affect on me since I was not experiencing the lecture personally.