Post by betatest on Sept 17, 2020 20:43:52 GMT -5
Was wondering how ProBoards works in practice for a website I just kinda started AND noticed the "SanDiegoScene" forum while skimming
Long story short, last year around earth day (2019) heard a story on NPR that "Most Teachers Don’t Teach Climate Change; 4 In 5 Parents Wish They Did"
Then after some Googling I read that a study done in San Diego that found that none of the individuals asked were able to identify the basic scientific mechanism that causes climate change.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/climate-change-acceptance/
Thinking these findings were a fluke, I did my own informal survey (last year in 2019) about what causes climate change at two venues, a startup conference here in San Diego (startupsd.org) AND a gathering of people advocating for environmental issues (sd350.org).
Figured individuals at a tech startup conference AND a gathering of people advocating for the environment would be more "scientifically" knowledgeable about climate change.
Sadly found only one individual at the startup conference could correctly identify the scientific idea behind the greenhouse effect.
Since like many others I am stuck at home "social distancing" to prevent the spread of the virus, I'm using the time off to play around with image editing software.
Basically end result of playing around with graphic software is came up with a group of images (in an interactive startup pitch deck format) that hopefully makes understandable the scientific mumbo jumbo behind the greenhouse effect.
www.ThereIsNoPlanet-B.org
Figure science based artwork gives individuals who don't have a formal physics or chemistry education, a basic mental image to focus on when learning about what causes climate change.
In other words, when trying to understand the greenhouse effect is the trapping of infrared radiation because of increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere due to combustion of fossil fuels,... AND due to long cycle orbital dynamics (i.e. the Milankovitch cycles) over tens of thousand of years the Earth's orbit gets exposed to less sunlight which acts like an extended winter period (AKA an ice age),... pictures are worth a 1000 words!
Long story short, last year around earth day (2019) heard a story on NPR that "Most Teachers Don’t Teach Climate Change; 4 In 5 Parents Wish They Did"
Then after some Googling I read that a study done in San Diego that found that none of the individuals asked were able to identify the basic scientific mechanism that causes climate change.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/climate-change-acceptance/
Thinking these findings were a fluke, I did my own informal survey (last year in 2019) about what causes climate change at two venues, a startup conference here in San Diego (startupsd.org) AND a gathering of people advocating for environmental issues (sd350.org).
Figured individuals at a tech startup conference AND a gathering of people advocating for the environment would be more "scientifically" knowledgeable about climate change.
Sadly found only one individual at the startup conference could correctly identify the scientific idea behind the greenhouse effect.
Since like many others I am stuck at home "social distancing" to prevent the spread of the virus, I'm using the time off to play around with image editing software.
Basically end result of playing around with graphic software is came up with a group of images (in an interactive startup pitch deck format) that hopefully makes understandable the scientific mumbo jumbo behind the greenhouse effect.
www.ThereIsNoPlanet-B.org
Figure science based artwork gives individuals who don't have a formal physics or chemistry education, a basic mental image to focus on when learning about what causes climate change.
In other words, when trying to understand the greenhouse effect is the trapping of infrared radiation because of increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere due to combustion of fossil fuels,... AND due to long cycle orbital dynamics (i.e. the Milankovitch cycles) over tens of thousand of years the Earth's orbit gets exposed to less sunlight which acts like an extended winter period (AKA an ice age),... pictures are worth a 1000 words!