Your Future What does the future hold for you?. Global Warming? OR Man-Made Disaster?
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Your Future
What does the future hold for you?
Global Warming?
OR
Man-Made Disaster?
What difference can it make?
Did I hear you say: It doesn’t matter to me or you? Well, who will it matter too? Will the future of the world make more
of a difference to you or to me?
What tools can we use to help us become more aware?
Observation Documentation Experimentation Analysis of data …???
Scientific Tools
Microscope Submarines Satellites Computers Software Programs ??????
ImageJ: Image Processing & Analysis Program
A free Software tool used by scientists, mathematicians, teachers, students, and whomever desires to learn to use it, that is distributed by our government.
ImageJ
Free tool can be downloaded at:http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/index.html
Measurement of images From microscopic images to large land forms
Time lapse animation of images Images taken over a time period
ARAL SEATRAGEDY
4th Biggest INLAND Lake
Now mostly a desert!
Images Over Time
Aral Sea as observed from space. From NASA Earth Observatory.
The Remnants of the Aral Sea in 2007
The Remnants of the Aral Sea from 1973 to 2000
The Remnants of the Aral Sea in 1973 to 2000
Animated Stack
QuickTime™ and aSorenson Video decompressorare needed to see this picture.
What did the scientists find out? The Soviet Union was diverting the Syr
Darya & the Amu Darya Rivers from feeding water to the Aral Sea.
The water was used for irrigating cotton crops and rice fields
AND, poorly built irrigation canals along with water evaporation caused 90% of the water loss.
What happened to the area? The sea level continued to drop each year
and over 40 years: 90 % = desert Lakes salt content was 33 g/litre and it
increased to 98 g/litre 73 species of birds either died or left the area 70 species of mammals either died or left the
area 24 species of fish died
What happened to the area? ALL the lakes fish & plant life died in that
90% of the Aral Sea Salt pans and contaminated runoff lakes have
appeared Crops that can grow are being killed off by the
heavy salt-laden particles falling on the good land
Winters have become harsher & longer Summers have become hotter & shorter
What happened to the people?
There had been 27 million inhabitants living in this area because there aren’t any jobs people have
left the area fishing industry that employed 60,000
people ended all canning plants closed jobs have gone away
Health Issues• Tuberculosis• Cancers• Other lung disease • infant mortality is • 30 times higher than it used to be.
• WHY?• drinking water is heavily polluted with salt• drinking water is heavily polluted with
fertilizers used to grow the cotton • drinking water is heavily polluted with
pesticides• The air quality is extremely poor!
Website Resources:
•Story of the sea and picture of the ships.http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/aral-sea.html
•Map of where the sea is located:•Satellite pictures of the area:http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/environment-book/dyingseas.html
•The Health of the people:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/678898.stm
Video Website Resources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAUyddi_5j8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWidOoFJN48&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSEdGusF3qA&feature=related