Assistance with potential weather disasters in essay form based on Ted Talks video.

Name ______________________________________ Activity 23

Watch the video Jeff Masters - Nine Potential $100 Billion Weather Disasters of the Next 30 Years.

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxBermuda-Jeff-Masters-Nine-P;search:weather

Your answers should be in full sentences and paragraph form. Please use your own words...copy and pasting from the internet is not allowed. You should site any sources that you use.

Wow, what a video...Hurricanes, Draughts, Floods, Geomagnetic Storms and Nuclear Bombs all threaten our way of life. One thing I think Mr. Masters missed was volcanoes...after all 1816 was the "year without a summer."

For your 1st essay choose one of these categories and do a bit of research. Tell me why you chose the potential disaster you did and what it has done to our climate/atmosphere/way of life IN THE PAST. We have past events (such as the "Little Ice Age" and the "Younger Dryas" just to name a few...)

Same disaster senerio...but this time do a bit of research and write an essay regarding disasters that could occur IN THE FUTURE. Future meteorite/asteroid impacts, super storms, global warming and ocean acidification are just a few examples. Include your research.