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Image of low latitude (tropical) ice: Quelcaya Ice Cap

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Image of low latitude (tropical) ice: Quelcaya Ice Cap

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  1. “U.S. 12th graders scored below the international average and among the lowest of the 21 participating nations in both mathematics and science general knowledge in a comprehensive international study in 1995. 70% of those U.S. students were convinced they had performed well.”From a statement by Lynn Margulis, President of Sigma Xi, in American Scientist vol. 94, p. 2, Jan-Feb. 2006.

  2. Listen to full statement on NPR. Can reflect on any or all of it, including the statement:“Scientist are happy, of course, when they find answers to questions. But scientists are also happy when they become stuck, when they discover interesting questions that they cannot answer.”from NPR This I Believe, by Alan Lightman,http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5071045

  3. “Some time between 2015 and 2020 [the] ice will be gone - along with the archive of climate history recorded in those glaciers.” Dr. Lonnie Thompson on the ice fields of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2337023.stm Image of low latitude (tropical) ice: Quelcaya Ice Cap from: http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/Icecore/facilities.html

  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vostok_420ky_4curves_insolation.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vostok_420ky_4curves_insolation.jpg http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/images/Vostok.jpg

  5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CO2-Mauna-Loa.png

  6. 1930’s in the American mid West. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0319dustbowl.html http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/wea01408.htm

  7. http://www.scotese.com/cretaceo.htm

  8. Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand, 1952 Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand, 1957 Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand, 1960 Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand, 1964 http://nsidc.org/glaciers/glossary/glacial_retreat.html

  9. Klaus, Adam, Norris, Richard D., Kroon, Dick, Smit, JanImpact-induced mass wasting at the K-T boundary: Blake Nose, western North AtlanticGeology 2000 28: 319-322 http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1130%2F0091-7613(2000)28%3C319:IMWATK%3E2.0.CO%3B2#figures

  10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level

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