I enjoyed reading Kaye Robinson’s blog. She shared her life experiences that connected to each module. For example; getting fresh water (via ice) from the frozen salty sea, the use of black trash bags to sit on while ice fishing to convey how dark colors retain heat.
She also mentioned how the melting of glacial ice is raising the sea level causing devastation to coastal communities. The sea ice that used to protect the coastlines is no longer there which allows waves and currents to go right up to shore.
There was one thing I didn’t agree with. I didn’t agree with her comment; “In the wake of warming trends, traditional knowledge is becoming less reliable.” In the article, Young Alaskan Sees Changing Way of Life, Mathew Gilbert stated; “Native People out there in rural areas of Alaska are year-round observers. If there’s a new plant coming in, or a new animal, they’ll be the first to see it. And they’ll notice subtle things like changes in blueberries, whereas scientists in an office in Fairbanks is not going to notice something like that no matter how good the satellite is.”
I found this article looking through the blogs. This blog belongs to Don Berberich. It’s the other article that I will be reviewing.
If all the world's ice sheets melted, sea level would rise approximately 230 feet. This is a representation of how New York Harbor would look in an ice-free world.From K. Miller, Rutgers University
Berb’s Blabber
A picture of the Statue of Liberty raising her torch as high as she could to keep it from being enveloped by the ocean made me laugh at first, and I shared it with my husband, but he didn’t laugh. He said it was scary. I had shown him the pictures I had found of Newtok, Alaska earlier that day, and it hit me that it really wasn’t funny since it could become a reality.
Don made a list of several factors that led to the ice age. I was tickled to find I was able to add one factor to his expanded list; microbes! Don stated that it was assumed that warming trends happened over long periods of time but that evidence provided by the study of ice cones show warming trends may have happened abruptly.
This reminded me of the laundromat that was built at my hometown. The engineers assumed that the data used years before was still sufficient since they depended on temperatures staying consistent over time. When the laundromat was build it started shifting due to not installing enough thermosyphons into the ground.
I’m glad I looked at Berb’s Blabber because I found the YouTube Link that I’ve been looking for- Strange fishes after a tsunami!
