Tuesday, February 24, 2015

San Diego, CA water

San Diego California and water use and prevention

San Diego is basically a desert and we get water from far away places 37% of our water comes from within CA and the other 63% comes from the Colorado river.

In the future water demands will rise and water will start being recycled and desalinization. if there is climate change in the future then there will be a bigger demand for water.

The main reasons for an increase in water will be because of population increase and climate change.

our demands will be meat when we have a new water source that is better than our previous water sources.

one graph shows that we will need to find a new source of water by 2050. another part on the graph shows that if there is no climate change then we will have more water from the Colorado river. basically reusing water will make up a portion of our water in the future. basically we need water badly in the future witch will prove to be a challenge when the population increases.
some ways we can conserve water includes: rain barrels, fake grass, and drip irrigation.the rain barrels will collect storm drain and down fall water which will give us a rebate of $75. fake grass well its just grass that you do not need to water which will save money. drip irrigation is where you water plants with only drips saving again money and water for San Diego.
An example of a rain barrel (ways to save water)
An example of drip irrigation (watering plant with only drips not a water bucket)

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

the extinction of the dinosaurs

In the New York Times article by Peter Brannen titled The Death of the Dinosaurs published on January 31, 2015, the author argued that the evidence for the extinction of the dinosaurs via climate change and massive volcanic activity explains the demise of these ancient creatures better than their demise caused by a "colossal fireball from heaven." http://nyti.ms/1yU55rg (http://dannyblasearthscience.blogspot.com/)

Dr. keller is a geologist at prinston who says that climate change is the reason the dinosaurs went extinct.

The father and son team made the theory that most people say is true, basically a meteor hit the earth and killed the dinosaurs.

Earth has had five major extinctions that we now of and that makes me feel worried that this can happen again which is not good.

Rocks in Texas, Tunisia tell Dr. Keller that warming episodes caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.


In my opinion the dinosaurs were killed by a meteor which led to volcanoes to erupt and kill the dinosaurs.