Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

I need help with getting information on global warming .

Hi,
Welcome to the Ask and Expert forum. Can you please tell us more about your project and what sort of information you are seeking? The more detail you provide, the more we will be able to help.
Regards,
Chris

Hi there,

You start by looking at the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

Hope this helps!
Mary

Hi!
There is a wealth of information on the internet about global warming. Simply typing "global warming" into google will yield many results-here are a couple of cool links
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/earth_ ... l_warming/
Hope this helps, good luck!

Hi robreidr6,

If you tell us more about what you are hoping to do with global warming for your science project, we will be able to help you find sites that address your question more specifically.

In the meantime, here are a couple of links you can look through:
http://www.climatehotmap.org/--shows predictions for how the weather in various areas will change due to global warming
http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/ --has information about how ecosystems will change due to global warming

You can also try a Google search for "greenhouse gases" or "greenhouse effect". If you haven't already seen it, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (either the film or the book) has a good general background and statistics.

Hope this helps!
Sonia

I want to do a science project by planting different plants in pickle jars with a thermometer in each to see if any particular plants put off more heat than others. Can you suggest what plants would be good to use?

Hi,

Everyone has given you some good suggestions for researching your topic. What question are you going to be answering with your experiment? I'm sure that plants produce some heat due to respiration, but I think it would be difficult to measure, and I'm not sure if this would be related to global warming. Did you find a reference on this topic? I recommend that you do more background reading and design an experiment that will answer a question related to your area of interest. The best projects are based on all of the scientific research that has been done before.

I hope this helps.

Donna Hardy

Thanks.
I did some more research and what I will be testing will be which would register a higher temperature; an empty jar or a jar with a plant in it (if I put both in a sunny window)with a thermometer in the jars.

I believe according to my research the empy jar will have a warmer temperature reading. If I understand photosythesis correctly the plant will absorb CO2 (carbon dioxide) and the empty jar will not absorb the CO2 which heats up the air around it. Does this sound logical to you?

Hi,

Thanks for the explanation. Yes, you could do a project like this.

Here is a project on the Science Buddies website that gives an outline of this project idea.

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... p029.shtml

Yes, your understanding of the experiment is clear and very logical.

Good luck on your project!

Donna Hardy