Climate Science Research

In my initial research, I focused on mostly definitions and models of things that I didn't understand or didn't know. From Estimating Weather and Climate Predictability on Attractors, I learned what predictability means in climate, and from the same website and, Climate Predictability Tool, I learned what tools and techniques are used to control and study the weather. I found a lot about the weather patterns and the definition of an actual climate on Dictionary.com, and GPS Media. I now know that weather can be predicted up to two weeks in advance, and it's usually dependent on El Nino -which can be predicted up to six months in advance- and the oceans waves and currents. I found it most interesting that meteorologists actually use these tools and measure the atmospheric pressure, just to calculate a simple seven-day forecast. I had no idea meteorologists did so much work and that there was so much behind predicting the weather, even NASA can predict the weather by the way the Earth orbits!
I plan to continue to research and read about the specific techniques and tools that meteorologists use to predict the climate. As well as that, I'd like to focus on the different tools used in the different cultures and countries of the world, not just in America. I'd like to know how the different areas experience climate and how they are able to predict the climate from places surrounded by oceans, which are more likely to have a spontaneous climate, than those that are surrounded by land, which are more likely to have a stable climate. I feel as if I've answered a lot of my own questions already, but I'd like to look into a broader area to see if there's a change in the climate.

Research Question

The category that interests me most is the "Climate Science" subject. I'd like to focus on questions like, "Is climate, reliable?" or, "How has the climate of the Earth changed over time?" and, "How is climate defined?" I think it'd be interesting to learn about the primeval years of the Earth and how climate has changed the Earth over a time period rather than just after specific events like the Dust Bowl.

Climate

1. Dome- I thought of this because in domes, climate can be controlled or changed. I also think that one of our alternatives to conquer global warming and climate change is to build a dome or some sort of controlled environment so we don't suffer the damages of climate change and climate itself.
2. Panda- I'm not really sure why I thought of this other than they look like polar bears and they are probably suffering from changes in climate wherever they live.
3. Global Warming- I thought of this because of the melting ice and the polar bears and animals and people suffering from global warming, all of which have to do with the Earth's climate.
4. Climate Change- I thought of this because there are lots of changes in the weather, and I always hear people talk about the horrible climate change affecting their lives or the weather.
5. Weather- Climate reminds me of the weather because it is the difference or change in the atmosphere, or the weather.
What will the long term effects of climate/climate change be?

1930s Questions

Read about the Great Depression (Links to an external site.). According to this article, President Hoover claimed that it was a passing crisis, when it was actually a serious national problem that required attention. People blamed themselves when things went wrong, because they didn't earn their success, which was a common mantra during the 1930s. Their claims were valid during the time, but not in today's standard people ask for assistance in their success. The main thing driving Hoover's claim was that he didn't believe it was the government's job to solve the depression.

Read about Black Sunday (Links to an external site.). If I was there during Black Sunday I would be extremely confused and scared. I would be fearful for my family, not sure what's going on around me, and really scared of the "black cloud" of dust behind me.

Read about The Drought. The east, west, and the Great Plains were affected by the drought. Misuse of the land, and planting too much wheat crop caused the drought. I agree with this historian's perspective because it was a time of recklessness among the nation and "imbalance," like the historian said. America needed to learn how to use their resources properly and the drought and the Dust Bowl helped Americans come to the conclusion that nature is important.

Read about Mass Exodus from the Plains. The Dust Bowl was the largest migration in US History. California became overcrowded as people flooded to the Great Plains for safety, the farms in California were co-owned and already modernized so that migrants couldn't find a place to farm and uphold their lifestyles from before the move. 

Radio Research

       Radios became increasingly popular during the 1930s after a surge of income and innovation. According to American Radio Works, at least fifty percent of urban households owned a radio in the 1930s. Radio was meant to unite rural and urban lives in a form of communication that could be broadcast nationally. Soap operas, baseball games, and comedy shows were aired on the radio and would draw in families and individuals of all ages. Comedians like Fred Allen and Jack Benny were popularized by the radio. According to PBS, the soap opera "Our Gal Sunday" was popular for women to listen to because they could relate and sympathize with the main characters in the program. Radio shows and programs were much like today's TV programs, but without the motion picture part. Actors and characters dealt with the same problems on radio programs during the 1930s that they do now on TV shows during the 21st century. Some of the most popular programs on the radio, like the news, gave families the most up to date information on the hour. The news popularized the want to be connected among a larger community, and the need for social media in emergency or entertainment. Musical performers and dance orchestras could always be heard on the radio, and attracted all audiences. According to Radio Shows in the 1930’s, radios were widely used for programs with drama and scandal, so to grab the listener's attention. Big stars, news programs, soap opera and dramatic pauses all came from the popularizing of the radio, and have helped create the very basis of our social media and Netflix driven minds today. Radio programming during the 1930s started a new age of connectivity and fantasy in technology.

Speech

During the 20th century, adults nationwide were, for the first time, experiencing free range of American culture with excess money in their pockets and weeks without work. So, rather than sit in their microscopic apartments in the city, or work on their rural farms, they went to the movies, they got blatantly intoxicated at parties and jazz clubs, they bought new fridges, and they joined the Ku Klux Klan if they wanted to abide by the traditional values of Americans and become "community leaders". I believe that these are the most important facts, because entertainment was the central concern of adults, teenagers, and children during the 1920s as they received higher wages, vacation time, and shorter work hours. With a loss of things they had to do, individuals in the 1920s developed education, societal norms and statuses, appliances and amenities, social events and groups, and other forms of entertainment to occupy their modern minds contrasted with the traditional culture they lived in during the 20th century. 

            Since children and teenagers didn’t have to go to work all day in factories, they went to school and left each day with new interests, hobbies, and relationships. Universities and colleges were attended by teens with a higher education who had the time and money to develop their studies. Through education, college graduates received higher paying jobs, and spent their paychecks on appliances, social events, or drinking. The money made from jobs fueled innovations in appliances that we still use today. If education hadn’t been such a driving force behind the modernization of American culture in the 20th century, we wouldn’t place such high value on education in this century.

            Through education, society was born. Social norms, societal groups, and status derive from the knowledge shared among peers at universities, jobs, and in public. Groups like the “KKK” arose from a general consensus made by traditional Americans when the expansion of their free time allowed for the development of hobbies. Participation in social groups gave a person a certain status and a sense of community. It was a form of entertainment that was important to Americans who had an excessive amount of time on their hands.

            The use of movies and other forms of entertainment like partying and intoxication, played a large role in the commercializing of products by age and by status. Like the “KKK,” parties and social events were attended by people with a lot of time and money. Important forms of entertainment such as movies, the development of society, amenities, education, and technology helped to modernize the traditional 1920s values of America to the standards and societal norms we uphold today.  

Peer Book Review

"Sweet Tallernig and Speaking Easy" by Patrick, is a novel about prohibition in the winter time during the 1920s. Johnny, George, and a Hotsy-Totsy girl from Brooklyn explore the new law of prohibition and George is curious to find out what Johnny has been doing down on 5th Street, as is the reader in this thrilling mystery about speakeasy and the illegal bootleggers in the 1920s. - Abby

"Living In the Lost Generation" by Cameron, deals with a struggling artist in post WWI. The artist uses the arts as an escape, and loses herself in books, articles, and painting. The book describes the journey of the trapped postwar artist as she struggles to define herself in the society of the time based on personal opinion and alienation. - Abby

My Mini Book

I wrote a little book about education and youth in the early 1900s. I used slang terms popular during the time and illustrated pictures about a teacher during her first day teaching an economics class in high school.