Glacial movement - examples!

In the recent pieces of work on 'glacial movement' and 'glacial mass balance' many of you did not include any examples to illustrate your points. Use the following links to find examples to illustrate you answers. Look for examples of advancing glaciers, retreating glaciers, data on accumulation and ablation. Start here with an animation illustrating glacial mass balance. Then check out the links on glacier mass balance and glacial retreat and this interesting note on glacial advance. Finally view the video of glacial advance made by PBS in America.

Vulnerability quadrat

To help answer the question on the vulnerability quadrat. On this website there are lots of images which may be of use. You may need to save the images to 'My Documents' before viewing them. I have copied some of the images into a PowerPoint presentation on X:\Geography AS\Read Only for you to view easily.

You will find some more maps here from Colombia University and some here of the USA.

Glacial systems

Use this link to complete the worksheet on Glacial Systems. See also here for more information.

Ice ages

Make notes using this PowerPoint presentation on the causes of Ice Ages. There are also some notes to go with the presentation here.

Is it fair for MEDCs to expect LEDCs to limit their greenhouse gas emissions?

A good place to start for this is the BBC Weather Climate Change mini-site. From here you should navigate to the 'Policies' section and read about the Kyoto Protocol and the mini-section 'Rich v Poor'.



The other main BBC portal is here. In particular you could look at this Q&A section on the Carbon Trade and how it might work for LEDCs and MEDCs. If you have a hunt around from the main BBC portal you will find a number of relevant articles including this one about Japan and one about China.

Also check out a previous BLOG entry.

The main ideas you should be including might be:

Can we, as developed countries, dictate the GHG emissions of countries desperate to develop themselves?

Should developing countries have the same limits on their emissions as developed countries? Surely they need less energy than us?

How do we persuade developing nations to use less polluting energy sources?