a day at the museum

Our trips to the Amercian Museum of Natural History brought about nostalgic feelings from my childhood. the moment i stepped into the museum i began to remeber all of the exhibits i seen when i was a child and now the new exhibits.at the museum we researched the affects of the greenhouse gases and how they affect the climate. from our research at the museum i discovered facts that i otherwise would not have been aware about our plant, such as ice cores, ocean sediment, and the tree rings that provide data and information about the earth's past climate. ice cores are built up slowly from a years worth of snow layers. the layers of ice show a detailed rapid change. based on fact, 3.1 meters length of ice core penetrated 3,022 meters of Greenland ice. tree rings are intricate indications of annual climate. thick tree rings indicate a rapid growth during warm and wet years. thin tree rings show slow growth and indicate old and dry years. another force that affects the climate are the greenhouse gases. greenhouse gases is when the earth's surface warms and some of the heat is radiated back to the atmosphere where it is trapped by greenhouse gases. water vapor is the most important gas, without it the world's temperture would be below freezing. some of the greenhouse gases including water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone, methane, and nitrous oxide. my group and i conducted a experiment during the museum visit where we choose the the status of a population, we choose a high population, with the amount of energy used per person is current, and the carbon current of fossil fuels is high. the combonation of the three causes the CO2 content of the atmosphere has more than tripled in only 100 years, which maked it terrible for the enviorment. some of the connections i made between the American Museum of Natural History and Al Gore's film " An Inconveniant Truth" is the affects of greenhouse gases. in Al Gore's film he displayed the causes and the tremendous affects of the greenhouse effect vividly through a near perfect powerpoint presentation.what made Gore's presentation so amazing is the simplicity of the poerpoint and how Gore made all of the scientific terms and conditions easy to understand for his viewer's. between the film and the museum i found the museum to be more believable. at the museum you could read about a topic and have the evidence right in front of you. you could see and feel a piece of the enviorment and the past instead of just viewing it in a movie. the only connections i made between the film, the museum, the reading so far, and the theme of our cluster: truth, lies, and videotape is the amount of people in the world that believe that global warming is a lie and that everthing that is happening to our enviorement is just a coincidence. i relate this claim to our past readings of "the allegory of the cave" and "the matrix" where people are denying themselves from the truth, which people today are doing about global warming. some processes by which humans "denaturalize" nature is by cutting down trees, burning fossil fuels, using too much energy, and the world's obsession with oil. we then try to "renaturalize" it by growing more trees, using less energy, driving hybrid cars, using less oil, and basically going "green".