Fake Plastic Trees? Blog #4

Radiohead had a song called Fake Plastic Trees, it came out when I was in high school.  Pretty good song.  This podcast is about Fake Trees.  Continuing our look into global warming, this podcast investigates a proposed solution to a human-caused environmental problem through mimicking a trees intake of carbon dioxide.

Listen here <----click on the mp3 link to open in iTunes

After listening to the podcast, react by answering the following questions.

What do you think of using fake trees to capture carbon dioxide?  What are some of the environmental impacts you foresee in using these fake trees? Finally, this idea is known as Biomimicry (click here for a Wiki link explanation)  If you could pick one element of nature and solve a human-caused problem or to better design anything, what would it be?  Example, using information and structures of a Gecko's feet to design a better Velcro adhesive!

Acid in the Arctic Blog #3

This week's blog assignment involves reading an article about a new discovery related to climate change and to listen to a podcast concerning the fate of a species due to elevated carbon dioxide levels.

NEWS ARTICLE
First find some time to read this news article.
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PODCAST
Acid in the Artic podcast
1. Click on the arrow next to mp3 to the Acid in the Arctic title to download story. iTunes will open and play the story. Here is a link for the transcript of the story, which may help when responding to this prompt. Click here for a glimpse of the link: -->

Prompt for Blog Response
As climate change legislation gains momentum in the U.S. government, evidence continues to arise that supports scientists' claims of human-caused climate change. What is your initial reaction to the podcast and news article? Which did you like better and why? What evidence, facts or information were most interesting to you and why?