Flower Child Reacts to the Climate

Ice core drilling (http://research.bpcrc.osu.edu/resources/pfp/ice_cores.php)

                

“Ice cores are proxies that can go back in time nearly a million years, collected by drilling into an ice sheet in Greenland, the Artic, or Antarctic.

When I think of ice cores I think of the cockroach that last through everything. Ice cores are literally pieces of history within itself. If you were able to break open an ice core and study what it looks like inside you can test how different the air quality was back when the dinosaurs roamed. They are like mini time capsules that can tell the pass in a more scientific way and help us figure out how to explain the different changes such as climate, and land that the Earth has gone through. Like the book says the best way to get to ice core is to drill through ice sheets. An ice sheet is just compact snow from numerous snowstorms. With ice cores you would also be able to see the different types of animals that walked the area over the years.

“If unusual changes are detected, we want to know to what to attribute them. We want to know if the changes are anthropogenic, or human-caused.”

Chernobyl and it radiation sign (https://www.thenation.com/article/30-years-after-the-chernobyl-meltdown-why-is-the-ukrainian-government-pushing-nuclear-energy/)

                 

Us humans have taken over the world and molded it into something that we aspire it to be, and because of this we have caused the world to somewhat cry. We can see more of the human impact dating back to the “Iron Age” or the “Industrial Age”. That is when we decided that we should open more factories and have steamboats, which literally blows toxic gas straight into our ozone. Some other human made impacts include Chernobyl, which was a reactor that was built in a small town and exploded. This did not only harm the land around the reactor but also the people within the village it was next to. The radioactive spill can still be seen till this day because of the ancestors of the people who lived in village as well as those who lived in near villages.

“Coral reefs work best for warm tropical water temperatures, while tree rings work best for temperate-region land temperatures.”

Tree clearing (http://www.northerntree.com/commercial-tree-care-services/land-clearing/)

                                 

I liked this quote because it shows how different things are in different ecosystem and how everything has a different piece of history of that area. The number of tree rings a tree has shows its age, so just imagine a tree that is so thick and packed with tree rings, and imagine all of the different things it has seen and gone through in its many years. The only problem with that is the fact that we cut down trees to make room for more buildings. If we were to take the time to study the trees and understand the different conditions they have gone through we could learn from them and hopefully repair the environment.