State of Fear Journal 3

Electrical storms. Electrical storms were man made by the ELF group to instill fear in the public about the dangers of global warming.

State of Fear Journal #2

Written Summary:

State of Fear is a novel about 'eco-terrorist' creating deadly natural disasters (a State of Fear) in attempts for people to support their views and make a point. The novel takes place in 2004 and the main character is Peter Evans who teamed with the NERF group finds out the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) is attempting to create 'natural disasters' to convince the public that global warming is dangerous and very existent. Elfs natural disasters being played out are the detonation of several explosives in an Antarctic ice shelf to release an enormous iceberg, then the use of special rockets and filament wire to produce a man-made lightning storm and flood in a crowded national park. The group also planned a tsunami to take off a part of california while a conference is being held on the catastrophes of global warming.Evans is able to stop the tsunami from taking away part of Califronia and killling hudnred of thousands. Evans along with his group expose the eco-terroist and him and Morton and Sarah start a group of their own dealing with enviornmental issues.

State of Fear Journal #1

What are the major themes in the novel State of Fear:

Fear is a main theme and function in the novel State of fear. Fear is easily instilled in people by what they see and what they hear, and what they choose to believe. Crichton also highlights societies reactions and behaviors having to do with fear, and crisis. Towards the end of the novel Dr. Normon Hoffman says to Evans, "I study the ecology of thought...and how it has led to a State of Fear." A central idea of the novel is that environmental crisis's are extremely overstated and exaggerated causing fear and terror all the while having the possibility of being completely fictional.

Overpopulation

Global Warming

Blog #2

"Average Global Temperature is Impossible"  by Bjarne Andresen 

Bjarne Andresen is an expert in thermodynamics, which is the dynamics of temperature.  Mathmatically the temperature of the earth, or climate, cant be determined by one temperature that a scientist finds. "it is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of the earth".  I believe this statement to be very true.  The earth naturally cools and heats, and focusing and investing in global warming because people fear our earth temperature is raising is pointless.  One temperature can be set and defined for the whole earths climate. Andresen goes to say that the different climates are what create sea storms, currents, thunder, etc....all of those components make up the earths global climate.  According to Andresen and in my opinion i agree that determining an average global temperature is impossible. 

Blog #1

Using "State of Fear", or "Inconvenient Truth" discuss why the media is so interested in global warming:

The media is interested in the topic and issue of global warming because the science of the matter is unsettled. It is an issue that is very controversial and that is why learning about it and choosing a side has become a popular thing over the past years in the media. In my opinion in the "Inconvenient Truth" is extremely biased and focus's on the scares and what some may say "reality" of global warming..but many things Al Gore says are purely based on opinion, and can easily be rebutted. Some media and audiences gasped at what Gore stated and showed about global warming, causing fear and inspiration to do more to keep the earth "green".  The media dives into what Gore states and claims so people world wide can have view and perspective of what is happening.  The media not only focus's on this issue for people to pick a side and argue it, but because of the fact that our leaders play a role in how the situation is handled.  If our leader in office is one who strongly believes the polar bears are dying because the earth naturally heats and cools, that leader may choose to invest thousands, even millions of dollars in researching this issue, advertising the issue, and making it known that to them it IS an issue we should be aware of.  Those who disagree would like the countries money and tax dollars to go to something more productive such as employment rates, education, poverty, and improving the economy. Though global warming will continually be a controversial issue the medias role is to focus on establishing facts, and inform the people of what we can do, and accept things we CANNOT do.  All of the earths functions cannot be altered by man.