Erin District High School - Wellington County Board of Education - Grade 11 - 2nd Semester 1978

MOTHER EARTH - In the spring of 1978, I took a Grade 11 Ecology class and the following year a Grade 12 Ecology class.  In that first ecology class I learned how methane gas and carbon dioxide would allow solar shortwave radiation to penetrate the atmosphere but block the terrestrial longwave radiation (heat)  from escaping.  In other words, the Greenhouse Effect.  Using 2018 as timepost, that was 40 years ago! I am concerned when our political leaders today resist the basic science that high school students from 40 years ago know.