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global warming climate change
Process
Process
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Step one: Prepare 20 itemed questionairre.To guide yourselves go to http://www.climatehotmap.org/curriculum/climate_change_guide.pdf and find the sample of the survey on page 14. If you wish, you can use it too.
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Step two: Find at least three elder residents to interview depending on the size of the community. If possible, you should interview people who have been in the area for at least three decades. You should make it clear to the interviewees that their answers are completely anonymous, and you should not write the names of the residents anywhere on your data sheet.
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Step three:Analyse the results of the surveys. To compile and analyze the group results depending on the survey design, you might want to create an overall continuum or some other chart of opinions�for example, �no change-----some change-----significant change-----very large change.�
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Step four: After you have compiled the survey results, compare your data with data to the Common Sense Climate Index for your city. Go to www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/csci/ and click on �World and U.S. Maps.� Scroll to the bottom of the page for the U.S. map. Major cities are shown as a guide, but you can click anywhere on the map to bring up the city or town closest to you. Then click on the station name to bring up the Climate Index for that station.
- Step five: Write a comparison essay either on your computer or in your hand to report your findings to your experts in your research center in Cambridge. Your essay should include the answers of the following questions below.
I)What were the results of the resident survey? Was there a clear opinion on change in climate or did answers differ from one resident to another? If they differed, were there any clear patterns relating the answers to the length of time the resident lived in the area, lifestyle, occupation, or other factors?
II) What does the Climate Index say about climate change? Has climate been warming, cooling, fluctuating, or more or less consistent (both over the entire period of record, and for the period of record that corresponds to the lifetime of the interviewed residents)? According to the index, should the climate changes over the last few decades be noticeable to older residents (i.e. has the Climate Index been persistently greater than 1, or less than 1?)
III) Do the results between the survey and the Climate Index agree? If they do agree can you say anything about the usefulness of the Climate Index, or do you still need more information? If they do not agree, can you suggest reasons for the disagreement (i.e. people�s perceptions are not always consistent with reality, Climate Index is not a perfect measure of noticeable climate change, etc.)?
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