Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts

Monday, 17 October 2011

Just a thought # 14: We need your help

As we compile to 20 questions we will be asking 2012 people in 2012 - that's just over 10 people per town in our 200 towns we will visit next year - we call out to you dear supporters to help us.

So we have divided our proposed questions up in our project categories for you to then choose your top 20.
Lend us your thoughts with our first of our four part question search...

Part 1:

The ENVIRONMENT Project -

  1. Will Climate Change effect SA's coast? 
  2. Will sea levels rise and change SA's coastline by 2050? 
  3. What is Climate Change? 
  4. Do you believe that humans are responsible for the changing weather patterns? 
  5. Has the weather changed in your town over the last 10 years? 

Thursday, 4 August 2011

Just a thought #2: The Next Ice Age

Will we, or our children, see the next ice age in our/their lifetime? Is this a false prediction or the biggest threat to our generation?

Considering only small changes in climate can cause, and for that matter have caused, ice ages, then climate forecasts for this century lead us to believe that on our current path, global warming will in fact cause the next ice age. So will this happen or will something human or natural intervene?

Should we have our next ice age as soon as predicted then this will be the shortest space between ice ages in history. This means that the earth’s climate changes in periods and this is signaled by an ice age which wipes out most mammals. The last ice age was only 1.8 Million years ago, meaning that should the world turn white within the next century or two then it will be premature and seen as forced by human modernization.

Just a thought…