2012

Watching the movie 2012 really reminded me of the recent topics we have been discussing in class. First and foremost I though the movie was ridiculous, the movie resembled “The Race to Witch Mountain.” Yes, some parts of the movie was moving and interesting, however I feel like the movie was just…bad, and not at all like everyone was raving it to be. The problem: the earth was receiving great amounts of isolation, the most ever in recorded history and somehow it caused the core of the earth to overheat. Midway through the movie the earth starts cracking and climatic spurts included magma bursting through the ground and melting buildings. The craziest part was fiery meatballs erupting from a volcano, also known as tephra, as we discussed in class. If anything, this course has given me enough surface knowledge to realize the absurdness of this movie. The ending was great tidal waves, not because the arctic was melting like you would think as the first sign of a warming earth, but because of the heat currents from the inside of the earth that caused earthquakes and movement of the plates. And the funniest part was how L.A sunk into the ocean, somehow the San Andres fault split. Crazy right??

You Can Be So Annoying

Yes, you the weather. I hate the way you turn my hair into a frenzy and flip my umbrella inside out. I hate that I must buy more than a dozen umbrellas to last a year here. It gets quite expensive you know. But you don’t really know because you come and go. Adhem*… I felt I would express my annoyance for the windy, wet weather today since today is yet another tragic day for my third umbrella. True, in Sacramento, the weather is milder than other parts of the world and the average here is well, pretty average. However, it feels that only here does the weather bring death to umbrellas and fries eggs on the cement in the summer. Though, this is not considered too extreme, it does make me realize that weather is quite peculiar. I think we have mostly a warm front here because many of the storms are prolonged and mild verses the cold fronts which are short and violent. I know that wind is caused from high and low pressure systems. Mechanism of wind includes: oceanographic, which is wind pushed over a barrier such as a mountain, frontal, which occurs from fronts of either warm or cold air, convergent, is when low pressure converges and lifts, and convectional, temperature differences occurs for example in plowed fields.