GEOG 205 Lecture Notes - Maple Sugar, Acer Saccharum, Crop Yield
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You can make your midterm mark worth 10% and the final worth 45% but you have to email drew on the 22nd (april 22nd @ 10 am) What we will talk about: increasing levels of carbon dioxide: availability of water, changes in temperature, possible increases in pests. Usa sugar maple: 70% of tree species showing tree range migration in usa, maple trees that produce maple sugar will be moving southward. Great spanish olive migration: spain produces 46% of world"s olive oil, increased from 28% in 2002, gain came at expense of greece & italy where olives died due to high temperatures and lack of water. What makes good science? philosophers of science have 4 criteria: methodology, strength of evidence, performance different metrics that measure the evidence level of consensus. But we find a picture of a black swan so now we have a new proposition: methods. Observation can take scientific measurements or pictures of retreating glaciers.
