Today's schedule is BADC
B Block Human Geography - Today and tomorrow our topic centers around the key question "Why Do Conflicts Arise among Ethnicities?". As with your big thinking question on religious conflict there is no easy answer to this inquiry. In some cases, ethnicities compete in civil wars to dominate the national identity. In other cases, problems result from division of ethnicities among more than one state. Today we'll briefly look at the Quebec, Scotland and Catalan nationalist movements then we'll focus on Sri Lanka
Next we'll look at Sri Lanka and the conflict between the Tamil minority and Sinhalese majority. For help ThoughtCo. has a nice piece on the Civil War as does Al Jazeera as does A World Without Genocide. But...we'll watch the Anthony Bourdain Sri Lanka episode of Parts Unknown as well.
A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll begin looking at Albedo, energy distribution, and the greenhouse effect.
NASA has a good website (Earth Observatory Global Warming) that tries to explain the concept of climate
change and global warming without a biased political viewpoint for or against
the subject. Check it out. You could also look at the Hyper
Physics website from the department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia
State University. We'll take a look at two sections of the National Geographic video "Six Degrees Could Change the World" (1 to 3 degree
temperature changes).We will
pay more attention to global warming and climate change later on in the course.
Don't forget that every day we are going to start by looking at the synoptic forecast along with weather maps.
Data Streme
Envrionment Canada: Weather Office Comox
C/D Blocks Environmental & Social Sciences - Double block in the Learning Commons/Library with both Young and Benton today. Last day in the learning commons to work on your Salish Sea poster, your ocean plastics social media campaign or your letter about the twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline to your MP. We're here to help and look at yesterday's blog post for deets on what can help you.
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