Fracking

What is fracking you might ask?  Well, fracking is a method in which we drill to get natural gases.  What happens is a mixture of water and chemicals is blasted into the ground breaking away at bed rock.  Well if you are blasting water and CHEMICALS into the ground, why would you do it?  People do it to release natural gasses that are in the bed rock.  So are there any risks, like it contaminating ground water???  Well you would think so.  Drilling industries say there is not a risk associated with this method of extraction. This is however a risk that comes along with this.  The E.P.A. has record of ground water being contaminated from this drilling procedure but were unable to investigate the claim.  SO what do you think, is it safe???

Reading Graphs: How to read a graph

What is the horizontal axis showing, and what is the range of values?

The horizontal axis is showing calendar years and the range of values (from when to when the data was collected is from 1979-2000.

Is present day on the right, or the left?
Present day(11 years ago) is on the right.

What is the vertical axis showing, what are the units, and what is the range of values?
 The vertical axis is showing degrees C˚.  The range of values is -0.6˚ -  0.8˚ C.  The horizontal axis is showing calendar years
The graph was created from data that was gathered.  Does the web page state where the data came from?
The web page (nasa) states that the information comes from surface temperatures in the tropospheric  layer.

Homework: Who was most directly responsible for the Deepwater Horizon Disaster? What Would be "Justice" for the Responsible Party?

Who do you think was most directly responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster? Why?--
I think that the crew was most directly responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.  The crew was directly responsible for the disaster because they were the ones who initially got the reading that something was wrong but ignored it.  There were things that could have been done to prevent it and they were not.

What would be "justice" for the responsible party?
Justice for the responsible party can not properly be served.  Now although the crew was responsible, 11 people died, and others were injured so the sympathy part of me says that they should not be responsible for the justice.  The people who would be responsible for the justice would be the company and people that make the regulations because there should have been regulations that keep things like misreadings from happening.

Irrawaddy Myitsone Dam

If the construction project were to go through, only the people of China would have benefited from it.  The Chinese were the ones who would have constructed it and they 90% of the power it generated would have gone to China.  Now this is not only a turn away for the people of Burma, but there are also very large environmental impacts as well.  If the dam were to be built it would immerse cultural and historical sites, along with the birthplace of Burma.  It would also flood 766 kilometers of forests.  100 kilometers away is a fault line, so, if there was ever an earthquake, the possabilities of the dam craking are very high.  The opinion that this author has about this topic is that he is in favor for the construction being halted.  I know this because only cons were displayed not pros.

Steno's Principals:Layers in the Earth

 

In order:
Layer 4 was deposited
Layer 5 was deposited
Intrusion 2 formed
Layer 1 was deposited
Intrusion 3 formed
Earth cracked at fault B


I order the layers the way I did because of Steno's Principals.  In one of his principals. The Principal of Superposition, it says that layers of rock on the top are the youngest and layers of rock on the bottom are the oldest.  Because I knew of this principal, I knew that layer 4 was deposited first because it was on the bottom.  Then I knew that Layer 5 was deposited second because it was the "second layer" after layer 4.  Then another principal came into action.  This principal was the Principal of Cross Cutting Relationships.  Because of the principal, I knew that intrusion 2 was form.  After intrusion 2 was formed came the  Principal of Superposition again.  So the next layer that was deposited was layer 1.  After all of this the Principal of Cross Cutting Relationships came into effect again for intrusion 3.  Intrusion 3 came last because it cuts across all other layers that we formed and it was the last "layer" per say to be formed.  As for the earth cracked at fault B, I put it last because I did not know what order that went in.  I was unclear as to the order of the crack