Climate Change Concern Survey

Everyone PLEASE take my survey! I'd really appreciate it!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y2PP755 

I'd also love if you'd comment on this post with any thoughts you might have about the subject or any questions that I asked. It'll help further my research a lot!

Research pt1

Of the research that I have done so far, I have found several different polls with conflicting results on climate change.  One of the polls says that more people than ever believe in climate change, where as another poll says that fewer people than ever believe in climate change.

A lot of my research that I have found so far deals with politics, and I'm struggling to find opinionated articles that help support the perspectives category.

Class questions to focus on:

What widely-held and/or alternative views do people living in the US, and in the world, have about the climate of our planet?  Upon what are these views based?  (Data, ideology, culture, propaganda, research, etc., ?)

When it comes to discussion of the climate, around what issues or questions does there seem to be debate?

“Why is our climate changing so rapidly?” / “Is global warming real?”

Data:

• Republicans are beginning to believe now more than ever the effects of climate change
• Poll from Monmouth university says the 70% of people polled believe in climate change.
• ⅔ of the respondents called for action against climate change
• Approxamately 27% believe that humans are the cause of climate change.
• When these people that were polled think climate, they think rising sea levels and extreme weather changes

I plan to do my own poll with in the Randolph community. As well as find blogs of possible about climate change. It is just a matter of where I look to find these blogs, I may need some help finding such blogs.

Sources:

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/264767-poll-70-percent-believe-in-climate-change

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/109620/20151123/americans-do-not-think-global-warming-is-real-why.htm

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/10/16/3713267/climate-change-poll/

perspectives

climate

1) weather- I keep having this image of rain for some reason. Rain on a mountain. its really weird and I'm not at all sure why that is the first thing that came to my mind......
2) atmosphere-the things around me are the atmosphere
3) storage- like climate controlled storage facilities.
4)change- climate change is said a lot. thinking about global warming.
5) humidity- When the climate changes (global warming) I think heat. Heat makes me think humidity. miserable humidity.


My Question:
What have we done as a population that has worked in the past and is still implemented in the future? In other words, What have we done right?

Dust Bowl Memorial and Museum

Welcome to the American Dust Bowl Museum & Memorial. Here, guests will encounter and understand the causes and effects of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. The facility is separated into three buildings, the main building, composed of 6 small exhibits; the “green”ery , which is an indoor farm facility, and lastly “the shack”.

Descriptions of each exhibit may be found on this guide. Note the numbering on the map corresponds with the numbering on this guide.

1.     The Timeline Room- This room was designed to give the guest a very brief preview and background on the decade in which the Dust Bowl took place. Major events are listed such as “Black Sunday” and the massive migrations from the affected areas of the dust storms.

2.     The Culture Room- This is the space dedicated to the popular culture of and about the time. This is the only room in the museum which music is constantly played. The music that can be heard is Woody Guthrie’s songs about living in and surviving the Dust Bowl.  

3.     The Photo Gallery- This space is filled with the photographs from the Dust Bowl, these photos are meant to give the viewer a brief glimpse of the devastation brought about by the storms.

4.     The Film Room- this room is set up like a modern movie theatre and plays documentaries for guests wishing to deepen their knowledge on the time period.

5.     The news room- this is the room that covers the political side of the Dust Bowl; what the president and his cabinet to aid the relief of the drought and the dust storms that were affecting over 75% of the country.

6.     The conference room- This is a space in which groups may divide and interact and act as if they were in the time period and try to solve the problems that the citizens of the United States in the 30s.

7.     The “Green”ery- This space is an “outdoor” classroom so to speak. The greenhouse is divided into 2 sections. A majority dedicated to the proper techniques of farming that could have prevented the Dust Bowl. Where as the other is a small patch that demonstrates the improper farming techniques given the drought conditions that caused the Dust Bowl.  Farming was a large contributing factor to the Dust Bowl, and this building is to give it the importance it is due for the cause of the tragic events of the decade.

8.     “The Shack”- This last building is meant for visitors to see in person the conditions of the homes of people living during the Dust Bowl. Guests will enter the “shack” and experience a dust filled house similar to the conditions of the “Dirty Thirties”.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/depwwii/dustbowl/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/dustbowl/

http://www.history.com/topics/dust-bowl

http://www.allmusic.com/album/dust-bowl-ballads-mw0000652784

1930s reading questions

1) Hoover didn't take the problems of the Great Depression seriously, and said that the poverty would fix itself in 60 days. He didn't believe that it was the government's issue

2)

3)If I had experienced Black Sunday, I would honestly be terrified. I probably wouldn't walk outside foe a while unless I had to.

4) my questions/thoughts during Black Sunday would have been:

• why is this happening?
• why is this one so much worse than the others?
• I wonder/hope everyone I know is safe.
• I hope it's all over soon

5) the drought began in the east and moved west

6)The drought was caused by improper farming techniques.

7) I somewhat agree with the quote at the end of the article, because droughts happen throughout the world all the time. I think that it may the fault of the people in the US at the time in combination with the natural environment. We are seeing the effects of global warming today, so why couldn't they have been occurring in the 1930s as well?

8) The "Dust Bowl exodus" was the largest migration in US history.

9)When migrants came from california, they came to realize that life in california would be just as hard as what they left from. They were unfamiliar with the crops and modernized ways of farming, and were paid very little. and what they were paid, they'd have to spend to rent shelter for the night, which would be extremely expensive based upon what they were paid. so the overall standard of living was extremely low.

1930s radio ads

I did some research on some of the ads that were played in the 1930s and came across a particularly interesting ad for soap. It was nothing like the ads we have today where companies just list every reason why we as consumers should buy the product. It was a story that engaged the listener, it was a story that the listener could remember, thus making the product stand out. Similar to todays ads, when we hear something that makes us laugh or we find repulsive or ridiculous, we are more likely to remember it.
I was taken through the story about a girl with bad body odor, or as it is called in the story "just plain B.O.!"

I went looking for a few more ads to compare to the soap ad and I found an Ipana ad. I had heard of Ipana from Grease, and decided that I wanted to see if the ad was the same as I had originally heard. As it turns out, it wasn't, it was similar to the story that was in the soap commercial.

What I have learned about advertising in the 30s is that people told stories to give a message about a product. So much more could be said on the radio than could be printed.