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I am including my quiz response on global changes to showcase how business and jobs can become global issues and become big in news and media.

Deforestation: this is caused by too many trees being cut down for lumber, or converted to farmland or other uses.

Overgrazing: this is caused by farm animals pulling out plants and killing off the plant life in an area too much.

Overcultivation: this is using the land too much and too repeatedly for farming that removes too many nutrients.

My quiz response about bats also showcases the media contributing to a greater cause for the science community because of the widespread effort to save them.

North American bats are facing mass death as disease spreads throughout the population. White nose syndrome spreads and kills very quickly. This could have a very big impact because they are a large consumer of insects such as mosquitos. this could cause an increase in the insect population as a large portion of insect predators disappears.

Lastly, my data summary media piece showcases the use of media and visuals, and technology being used in science.

Data Summary

Source: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Reputability of the Source

This article is well written and has engaging content and data visuals. The source is up to date as of 2020 at least. And the source is reliable, and gains no benefit from spreading misinformation.

Data and Visualizations

The article has many picture and data slides that provide information. One interesting one was the slide out on Ocean warming. The slide provides detailed statistics about the temperature increase, stating that there has been a .67 degree F increase over the past 50 years. This is shown to contribute to the melting poles significantly.

Another Interesting graph is about the atmospheric carbon levels increasing. Utilizing ice core data, it has shown that the levels of carbon dioxide have increased dramatically in recent times. This has been shown to be significantly higher than originally thought with the development of new, high tech instrumental data. This has shown almost a 50% increase since just 1958.

Image taken from https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/