Dear Young Robert...

Grace H. | Letter To Young Robert| Yellow Group| June 7, 2019 - June 13, 2019
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Dear Young Robert,

I am writing to inform you that much has changed since 1968. Climate change is a very controversial subject now-a-days. Though it has been scientifically proven that it is real, unfortunately. I am afraid that the cause of climate change is partially our fault, as humans. Your four beloved ski mountains in Rhode Island have been taken down to just one, and rarely is it open. The pressure is now being put on my generation, but I'm not sure how much we can do. Please, if you want to ensure a good future for Earth, be sure to ride your bike to school. I understand very well that it is difficult to force yourself to walk or ride your bike when it is so much easier to just take a car. But if you spread the word to your friends (including Kevin), one bike ride at a time, your generation could make the job of making the world a better place a little bit easier for my generation. There isn't much time, trust me, we need your help.

Troposphere

The troposphere is 7-11 miles up. It's thickest at the equator and thinnest at the poles. This area is where we exist, it's where kites and airplanes fly. Most of the oxygen is in the troposphere. The majority of clouds are in the troposphere, which means that weather exists in the troposphere. By far, it is the wettest layer. When clouds collect too much moisture, they rain, therefore, precipitation exists in the troposphere.

Weather

Weather can change in a blink of an eye. If you look at the chart above, the temperature is continuously changing and the chance of precipitation is decreasing and increasing constantly. Truly though, you can't really predict exactly what the weather will be like. Almost all of weather is in the troposphere. Weather is the conditions of the atmosphere at a given place and time over a short period of time.

Climate

Climate is basically weather in a specific region, or "zone" over a long period of time. The difference between weather and climate is that weather takes only hours or minutes to change, but climate takes hundreds, thousands, possibly even millions of years. There are three separate climate zones:

These interpolation maps are of the total precipitation in Washington in April of 2019 (left) and the total rainfall in Washington in April of 2010 (right). These could connect to climate change because they are finding data change over long periods of time. However, climate change takes much longer than one or two months.

Dear Young Robert,

I am writing once again to remind you to help our environment. I am afraid that in the near future our struggles regarding climate and global warming will continuously go downhill. I've thought of something else that you could do to prevent further damage. Please keep a journal of weather and climate data. You see, it took us far too long to understand and accept the fact that climate change is a real thing. If we didn't waste all of that precious time arguing over the existence of the issue, we could have started fixing it a lot earlier and perhaps prevented the damage that has been done today. You can stop this from happening. If you keep a journal of the change in climate, you could prove to people that it is real early on, therefore taking away the amount of time used on debating the idea. Please, what we really need is more time and you're the only one who can give it to us.

Citations

"Contoocook, NH Forecast." Weather Underground, www.wunderground.com/weather/ KNHCONTO1?cm_ven=localwx_today.
"Earth Observatory." NASA, earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/SeaIce.
"The layer we call home." NASA, spaceplace.nasa.gov/troposphere/en/.
"Past Climate." Climate.org, www.climate.gov/maps-data/primer/past-climate.
"The Troposphere - overview." Center For Science Education, scied.ucar.edu/ shortcontent/troposphere-overview.

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