The book i am reading for our ecology book reading thingy is State of Fear by Michael Crichton. Its a fiction novel, but does have a fair amount of facts in it with referances. Its 672 pages long and right now at 3/29/07 i am on page 295. This is definitly the most interesting book of all the ones other people are reading in the class. Its got a real story to it! yay! anyways....
So far it has been talking about a lawsuit that was going to be made against the Environmental Protection Agency by an island nation called Vatutu. It was going to be funded by George Morton. It was expected to cost ~$8 million, but the lawsuit was never made. State of Fear has been so far about why that lawsuit was never made. It has argued that there are many scientists who have written peer edited works that Global Warming isn't really happening. It has given referances to most of its arguements. It has said that Antarctica is sheering off ice from the peninsula, but the total ice mass of Antarctica was increasing.
3/29/2007
3/22/2007
weird eco movies w/ 2 much timelapse er sumthing... They were called Life Sense!!! yay i remembered!!
Oooooooooook. these movies were kinda weird. there were too many timelapses it made all the plants look like demon thingies that grew so they could enslave the earth!!!!
anyways... the life sense movies were fairly intersting actually. The first one about the human-animal interactions showed some of the problems with development. I already knew most of things in this already but w/e it wasn't work. The first movie showed how food transfer and the colonization of places changed the environment of lots of animals and how they have adapted. For instance the perigrine falcon's main habitat is now cities.
anyways... the life sense movies were fairly intersting actually. The first one about the human-animal interactions showed some of the problems with development. I already knew most of things in this already but w/e it wasn't work. The first movie showed how food transfer and the colonization of places changed the environment of lots of animals and how they have adapted. For instance the perigrine falcon's main habitat is now cities.
3/06/2007
eco film fest!! it was cool =)
YAY! our film festival was awesome!
I suggest another yayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyay!! anyways.....
NOOOOOOO i just found out this is a test grade!!!! =( *crys* (3/13/07)
The movies we watched were After The Warming ; An Inconvenient Truth ; Waterworld ; The Day After Tomorrow they were boring ; boring ; cool ; and OK in that order. The first two were documentaries the second two fictional movies. They all discussed the topic of global warming and what will happen if we continue in our green house gasses.
The movies were similar in that they all showed a vision of the future. The first documentary showed a world ruled by the Japanese where everyone got along, and no one ate meat. It was a horrible apocalyptic doom. The second documentary showed signs of global warming and what would most likely happen in the future if we continue our use of natural resources at its current rate. The third movie was about a world were the ice caps melted. The world was covered in water except for the tip of a big mountain. The fourth movie was about an insane winter caused by an ocean current being purified by ice caps melting.
After the Warming had the most different of all the views of the future. In this future there was a global corporation in charge of regulating the world. In this future everyone got along and they were all hippies. The future view was fairly similar to the one presented in An Inconvenient Truth in that the world suffered from people pumping too much CO2 into the atmosphere causing ice caps and the like to melt and an ocean current to purify which screws up the transfer of air causing the temperature of a lot of places to get screwed up. This also happened in Day After Tomorrow. In After the Warming everyone got along which never was shown in either of the other movies. An Inconvenient Truth implied it but didn't actually say it (i think). In Day After Tomorrow almost no one got along and it led to a massive disaster instead of a contained one with little casualties. In Waterworld the smokers fought with everyone and no one trusted people outside of their own little groups (the atoll, each individual boat, the smokers, etc.).
An Inconvenient Truth was the only movie that didn't show the future, it only said what would happen. An Inconvenient Truth said that the world's CO2 would drastically increase and the algae that keep the temperature down would die off from the excessive heat. It said the ice caps would melt and the world's maps would have to be redrawn. It said that many densely populated areas would flood and there would be major catastrophes, but it never showed this future. It only told what would happen if we continued our ways. It showed a similar idea to that in The Day After Tomorrow, where the ocean currents cause a super winter. In An Inconvenient Truth it says that the glaciers melting will cause whichever current it is to purify and stop and we all FREEZE!!!! and then all of us in Telluride are like "yay snow day!!!". Anyways.... An Inconvenient Truth kind of denys that Waterworld could ever happen. It says that everything would freeze first.
In The Day After Tomorrow the oceans are purified by melting glaciers and everything freezes. This movie is like the opposite of Waterworld, because it says that you cannot ever reach that point. The Day After Tomorrow, as well as An Inconvenient Truth, says that once the ocean currents are purified than the world freezes and re-salinifies because ice freezes and the salt is left in the liquid water.
In conclusion these movies all told of apocalyptic futures (After the Warming had no meat that's apocalyptic!!). Some of them denied each other, but for the most part they hit on key issues like the glaciers melting, and the purification of the ocean currents. It was a cool film fest and its a shame we probably won't get another... =( *crys* oh well. I guess i failed these last 2 paragraphs huh?
I suggest another yayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyayyay!! anyways.....
NOOOOOOO i just found out this is a test grade!!!! =( *crys* (3/13/07)
The movies we watched were After The Warming ; An Inconvenient Truth ; Waterworld ; The Day After Tomorrow they were boring ; boring ; cool ; and OK in that order. The first two were documentaries the second two fictional movies. They all discussed the topic of global warming and what will happen if we continue in our green house gasses.
The movies were similar in that they all showed a vision of the future. The first documentary showed a world ruled by the Japanese where everyone got along, and no one ate meat. It was a horrible apocalyptic doom. The second documentary showed signs of global warming and what would most likely happen in the future if we continue our use of natural resources at its current rate. The third movie was about a world were the ice caps melted. The world was covered in water except for the tip of a big mountain. The fourth movie was about an insane winter caused by an ocean current being purified by ice caps melting.
After the Warming had the most different of all the views of the future. In this future there was a global corporation in charge of regulating the world. In this future everyone got along and they were all hippies. The future view was fairly similar to the one presented in An Inconvenient Truth in that the world suffered from people pumping too much CO2 into the atmosphere causing ice caps and the like to melt and an ocean current to purify which screws up the transfer of air causing the temperature of a lot of places to get screwed up. This also happened in Day After Tomorrow. In After the Warming everyone got along which never was shown in either of the other movies. An Inconvenient Truth implied it but didn't actually say it (i think). In Day After Tomorrow almost no one got along and it led to a massive disaster instead of a contained one with little casualties. In Waterworld the smokers fought with everyone and no one trusted people outside of their own little groups (the atoll, each individual boat, the smokers, etc.).
An Inconvenient Truth was the only movie that didn't show the future, it only said what would happen. An Inconvenient Truth said that the world's CO2 would drastically increase and the algae that keep the temperature down would die off from the excessive heat. It said the ice caps would melt and the world's maps would have to be redrawn. It said that many densely populated areas would flood and there would be major catastrophes, but it never showed this future. It only told what would happen if we continued our ways. It showed a similar idea to that in The Day After Tomorrow, where the ocean currents cause a super winter. In An Inconvenient Truth it says that the glaciers melting will cause whichever current it is to purify and stop and we all FREEZE!!!! and then all of us in Telluride are like "yay snow day!!!". Anyways.... An Inconvenient Truth kind of denys that Waterworld could ever happen. It says that everything would freeze first.
In The Day After Tomorrow the oceans are purified by melting glaciers and everything freezes. This movie is like the opposite of Waterworld, because it says that you cannot ever reach that point. The Day After Tomorrow, as well as An Inconvenient Truth, says that once the ocean currents are purified than the world freezes and re-salinifies because ice freezes and the salt is left in the liquid water.
In conclusion these movies all told of apocalyptic futures (After the Warming had no meat that's apocalyptic!!). Some of them denied each other, but for the most part they hit on key issues like the glaciers melting, and the purification of the ocean currents. It was a cool film fest and its a shame we probably won't get another... =( *crys* oh well. I guess i failed these last 2 paragraphs huh?
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