Question B for next week please:
From June 2014.
This article from The Guardian builds on the IEA article we studied today. Note the $329 billion dollar clean energy investment figure given for last year. Realistic?
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Geography links for the week ending
1. Useful for year 12 – Channel 4 news report, could this be the end of Schengen?
2. 2015 shattered global temperature records due to global warming and El Nino.
3. Pay farmers to reduce flood risk? The government is looking into it
4. Impressive debris flow video on Aconcagua
5. Cumbria from space.
Geography links for the week ending 17th January
- Useful map for year 13, superpowers, outlining Sunni and Shia populations across the Middle East.
2. One for year 13 – the US is increasing LNG exports
3. Good resource for year 12 on the global and mega cities topic: the impact of severe air pollution found in many cities on people’s health.
Year 13 – Radio 4 PM programme discussion on impact of oil prices on global geopolitics
There is a very good discussion around 34 minutes in on the possible impacts on world politics of the continuing decline of world oil prices. Very useful listening for both energy and superpower topics!
Geography links for the week ending 10th January
1.North Korea claims to have detonated an H bomb, but some are skeptical
2. The horrifying reality of siege warfare in the 21st century – Syria
3. Remember you have access to Foreign Affairs magazine. Lots of relevant articles this month on globalisation. Contact me of you cannot access and article.
Year 12 – links for the LA case study home work
Here is the link to the blog post from last year. This includes useful research links.
Case study to be completed and brought to the next lesson on Monday 18th January.
Mr Monteith
Fancy winning £100? Enter the Geographical Association’s post 16 competition
From the website:
The GA’s Post 16 and HE Phase Committee is running a competition for post 16 students on the theme ‘Making Geographical Connections’. The objective is to create an imaginative resource which explores connections we have with other people and places, or how these connections may change in the future.
There is a prize of £100 for the winning entry which will be published on the GA website.
You can present your work in whatever media and formats you wish, for example in writing, a poster, or podcast. Just amaze the judges! Entries can be submitted on behalf of individual or groups of two to three students and should be your own work
The deadline is Monday 7 March 2016 with judging by a small panel from the Post 16 Committee and the prize will be awarded at the Geographical Association Annual Conference in Manchester, April 2016.
New Year Geography links for the week ending 3rd January 2016
Happy New Year! Kicking off 2016 with a brief snapshot of some of the stories that cropped up in the holiday period.
1. No one can have missed the flooding that occurred across the UK over the Christmas period. This is a very useful collection of many of the key events and issues surrounding the flooding.
2. Greenland’s glaciers are losing a lot of ice, and its only going to get worse…
3. MP’s have given the go ahead for fracking under National Parks.
4. Antarctica from space
