Hi everyone, my name is Rob Engel.  I’m a junior up here at Penn State main campus and I’m studying history and hope to one day be a social studies teacher for 9th graders.  I’m from West Grove, PA which is about 30 minutes from West Chester University.  I have taken two other geography courses throughout my time here and I hope that after taking this class I can add more knowledge about  geography.

A big issue that has been going on for quite a while is global warming.  Module 1 talks about how the interactions between humans and the environment can cause different outcomes.  Climate change can be observed at a global scale but it can also be observed at a local scale.  Module 1 applies that things done by individuals such as burning fossil fuels can cause climate change.  Climate change can impact different people and ecosystems across the globe.  I hope to learn more about this as the semester moves along and to see what can be done to help keep global warming from causing negative impacts on the planet.