Snowball Earth

Metaphysics is the question what is really real in Core 250, as the second part of the core program here at Whitworth University. Trying to tackle the question of metaphysis a Greek philosopher named Plato believed there are two separate worlds in existence, there is one world where there are the material objects and then the other world contains the non-material objects or the “shadows.” However, another philosopher who followed Plato believed is the matter of the universe, form of the world,…

polar ice caps are melting causing a frightening increase to ocean levels, but Clay Kelly still has hope. By analyzing microscopic organisms, associate professor Daniel Clay Kelly in UW-Madison’s Department of Geoscience, studies the history of the earths’ climate that, explains how ocean acidification and rising carbon dioxide levels are causing catastrophic damage to our planet. Deep-sea sediment records are used as an archived of the Earth’s climate that spans the last 170 million years of…

This article will discuss why antimatter is a good thing and why we should be using it more. Many of people might not know what antimatter is. Antimatter is exactly like matter, but opposite. Many people still think matter is what everything on Earth is made of. With the discovery of antimatter,this common theory has been proven false. Antimatter is matter with a negative charge. A regular matter particle has…

“We see that everything in Nature called destruction must be creation - a change from beauty to beauty.” - John Muir. This quote from John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra, interprets that nature is both beautiful through destruction and creation. Authors such as Al Martinez, Anais Nin, and Robinson Jeffers illustrate the disasters of fires to reflect the beauty of recreation from its destruction. As as result, a common understanding is established of accepting nature in it’s positives and…

own problems that they forget about the other problems in the world and have others do it for them. I think that Pollan has done a good job in convincing people that doing something to help the environment will help make a difference. Everyone on Earth has their own part to play in the economy, but that doesn’t mean that you just stop caring about to environment, “The deep problem standing behind standing behind all the other problems of industrial civilization is “specialization” (213).…

The purpose of this article was to examine the role climate change played in the multiple natural disasters that occurred this season. Amanda Paulson, a Staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor, wrote the article Fire and floods: Did climate play a role in this fall's disaster? on October 13, 2017. Paulson points out climate scientists agree the warming of our climate has set the conditioning to warrant the abrupt climate changes and all the extreme events, we’ve seen lately. Scientists…

stated above and we’ve haven’t done much to decrease it. Global warming is a serious topic because we realize (and have known this for a while) that it has made a very big modification to our world today. How you may ask? We have been polluting our earth and it’s atmosphere, it has been making drastic changes. We’ve also have been trying to figure out its causes, its effects on us and living things around us. To put it in blunt words, pollution has been altering our world. But at a positive side…

Climate Change Various activities can cause climate change in the world. When climate change occurs; temperatures can increase a dramatically. When the temperature rises, many different variations can happen on the Earth. For instance, it can result in more floods, storms, droughts, or intense rain, landslides as well as more severe and persistent heat waves. Oceans and glaciers have likewise encountered a few changes: oceans are warming and winding up more acidic…

It is sunny and hot: to what extent does heat and sun imagery shape Meursault’s action In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, weather imagery plays an important role. Some of the most important imagery is heat and sun imagery. The main character, Meursault, is always aggravated when the sun is present. Sun and heat are shown to control his emotions. The intensity of the heat and the sum are the main controlling factors of his emotions. Heat and sun can be interpreted as the relationship…

A long time ago, in a not so very far world, there were two aliens, and they were named Josh and Logan and, they weren't happy when the government banned their favorite video game Call of Spaceships. Why, was it banned you may ask, well one week in the military office underground, they were playing when a modder started killing them over and over again so, the ruler Banned, Call of Spaceships.So,that's how Josh and Logan weren't happy when they her’s that Call of Spaceships was banned.So now,…