Antarctica Polar Climate Change
A presentation for the Bay Area Mathematics Project
20 October 2007
The Exploratorium web pages on the science being done in Antarctica can be found here
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/
Paul Doherty's web pages on Antarctic science are here:
http://www.exo.net/~pauld/antarctica/antarctica2001.html
The Exploratorium's web pages on the cryosphere are here:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/cryosphere/index.html
GlobalClimate activities
The weather in the past, the record at the poles!
The weather now.
Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.
Everybody talks about the weather, nobody does anything about it. Mark Twain.
Earth Atmosphere Scale Model, wrap an earth globe in 0.5 mm thin plastic to show 90% of the atmosphere.
Model the Earth's Atmospheric Composition using rice.
Carbon Dioxide Model, Make a model of CO2 from tennis balls and hacksaw blades to show why it resonates only in the IR.
Temperature model, a model for temperature in a gas using styrofoam balls and a rat cage.
Infrared light, use a digital camera to see the infrared light from your TV remote control.
Ice activities:
Ice in a beaker of isopropyl alcohol, it sinks!
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