The Pool-Gabby

In the corner of sage with some wood, pool liner, dirt and sod and some magic a small pool will emerge. The idea behind this is to visualize what 6 inches of water looks like and how this small change in ocean levels could wipe out entire cities.

I found this awesome video that shows what happens when the we warm up the planet at the current rate we are going. It may not seam like it is a big deal now but in a few years it will catch up to us. What I find interesting is how people understand climate change and why people seam to question the science behind it.

This is a blurb from my current introduction for my research proposal from my EES thesis that will be studying how people understand climate change.

Climate change is a major issue according to 97% of scientists (John Cook 2013) yet it is still a debated topic on news channels. Since news anchors are debating the science 1 in 4 Americans believe climate change not to be an issue (Saad 2014). Media mostly debates the existence of climate change rather than looking at the facts which skews peoples understanding of climate change. People tend to understand environmental issues when they can visualize them. Because climate change is particularly hard to envision the media limits the public’s understanding. An image of a polar bear on small block of ice does not help ones understanding of the real consequences of climate change. 

I hope my art can be a way in which people can realize the issues facing us when it comes to climate change. It boggles my mind people are still debating that climate change does not exist. The science is in guys...wake up now or wake up in a pool of water.  

Sources

John Cook, Dana Nuccitelli, Sarah A Green, Mark Richardson, Bärbel Winkler, Rob Painting, Robert Way, Peter Jacobs and Andrew Skuce. "Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature." Environmential Research Letters, 2013.

Saad, Lydia. Warming, One in Four in U.S. Are Solidly Skeptical of Global. Aprill 22, 2014. http://www.gallup.com/poll/168620/one-four-solidly-skeptical-global-warming.aspx (accessed 18 2015, 11).