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Discussion Post: Global Warming and Climate Change

Overview

All scientific inquiry starts with a question. Scientists may wonder why something exists, how it came to be, or how it interacts with other things. Whatever the inspiration, asking questions is at the heart of scientific research. In this activity, you will revise the research question that you would like to concentrate on as you continue working on your project.

Prompt

Use the provided Module Three Activity Template PDF to complete this assignment. You will consider the research questions you wrote in the previous module and choose one to focus on for your project. Use this opportunity to edit your research question based on instructor feedback and what you have learned so far in the course. Revising your question may involve the following:

1. Clarifying language
2. Connecting it more directly to your news story
3. Making it feasible
4. Narrowing its focus
5. Make it measurable
6. Ensuring it is ethical

You will also reflect on how your personal beliefs, assumptions, and values may have impacted how you wrote and revised your research question. For example, maybe a close family member has chronic fatigue syndrome, and you assumed the medical community does not know what causes it. So you decided to focus your research question on what contributes to the disease.

Specifically, you must address the following criteria:

1. Finalize your scientific research question related to main idea of your chosen news story
2. Explain how your beliefs, assumptions, and values may have impacted your research question

Post

Causes and Effects of Global Warming, Climate Change and Ozone Depletion.

Question I: What is the cause of global warming? How do we know that it is caused by human activity?

Question II: How has climate change affected us in the past and how will it affect us in the future?

Question III: What can be done to help reduce global warming and climate change?

Teacher's feedback: You have come up with one or two research questions but did not provide two questions that are both measurable. Recall from the module reading that measurable research questions require the collection and analysis of evidence, and their potential answers go beyond a simple "yes" or "no." For example, the question "has there been an increase in carbon emissions in the past 50 years?" can be answered with a simple "yes." A measurable version of that question could be "How much has the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide increased by in the last 50 years?"