Sunday, May 8, 2011

Wunderground Assignment

This is very interesting to me. My son is in construction management and he is very interested in energy saving and green-house building. The weather pattern for Belize in the last ten years is very stable according to the data I used. I am not very good a research, but I believe that there is a great effect on the weather because of deforestation and pollution in the word. I do believe we have global warming and that we will see more drastic climate changes in the next few years. During my Mayan unit in my Spanish 1 classes, we do touch basis on the ideas of environment changes and how that affects people and cultures. One of the reasons of the fall of the Mayan empires, according to some researchers, was the mismanagement of their natural resources. During the introduction to South American countries we also have discussions about the deforestation of the rain forest and how everyone in the world should be concern with this. I read somewhere that it takes 65,000 trees to print the Sunday Edition for the New York Times. In this age of technology and e-readers, it seems like a crime. This is a great activity that I can easily in Latin American geography units.  

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