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Topic(s): Emissions Reduction, Personal Responsibility, Fossil Fuels, Efficiency and Conservation

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)

sentence in the foreword: "Some scientists believe that this increase is due to greenhouse gases produced through human activities" is incorrect, because "based on data, scientists have concluded that ...

Using a mass balance model to understand carbon dioxide and its connection to global warming

Topic(s): Greenhouse Effect, Carbon Cycle, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Projections

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

scientist: This e-learning activity explains in a simple way some important concepts about greenhouse gases evolution and its connection to global warming. This material was built on a solid scientifi ...

Fueling the future: Evaluating the sustainability of biofuels

Topic(s): Other Alternatives

Grade Level: High School (9-12)

are one solution to reducing humans' use of non-renewable fossil fuels and to reducing the greenhouse gases that result from their burning. Students explore the potential of biofuels as a renewable en ...

Trees and Carbon

Topic(s): Biogeochemical Processes, Sources and Sinks, Land Use Changes

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

region of the spectrum. The explanation of the greenhouse effect is misleading, because greenhouse gases do not absorb all of the infrared energy. viii) The increase in average temperatures is 0.6 deg ...

Atmospheric Carbon: Can We Offset the Increase?

Topic(s): Climate Feedbacks, Sources and Sinks, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Land Use Changes, Scenario Development, Land Use Changes, Human Responses to Climate

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

feasible or not. The activity could be done in small, in-class groups, following a unit on greenhouse gases and the enhanced greenhouse effect. It might also be assigned for homework prior to a unit o ...

What is the Future of Earth's Climate?

Topic(s): Climate Feedbacks, Aerosols, Greenhouse Gases, Atmospheric Composition, Global Climate Modeling, Measuring and Modeling Climate

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)

In acivity 6, students explore how solar radiation, Earth's surface and oceans, and greenhouse gases interact to cause global warming through a simplified model. They can change variables to determine ...

Carbon Cycle

Topic(s): Greenhouse Effect, Carbon Cycle, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)

of the activity as described. Video on "What's in the Air" about NOAA's Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases group can help provide background on the program: [. A very thorough look at actual data to explor ...

Investigating Climate Change at a Macroscopic and Microscopic Level

Topic(s): Greenhouse Effect, Climate Feedbacks, Greenhouse Gases, Causes of Climate Change, Climate Data, Melting Ice and Permafrost

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), Informal Education

moraines and eskers. - Discuss albedo to further understand the link between glacier and greenhouse gases. Activity is guided by questions that prompt students to play with the simulations, observe in ...

Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming

Topic(s): Albedo, Carbon Cycle, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sea Level Rise, Melting Ice and Permafrost, Emissions Reduction, Personal Responsibility, Fossil Fuels, Efficiency and Conservation, Usage Trends

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)

and both CO2 and CH4 (methane). It shows that over the geologic record, temperature and greenhouse gases change together, although it is not always clear which occurs first. While this is an area of r ...

Scientific Consensus: A Tsunami of Evidence

Topic(s): Cyclical and Natural Changes, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Anthropogenic Changes, Causes of Climate Change, Climate Data, Climate Impacts, Human Responses to Climate, Nature of Climate Science

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

This introductory lesson defines common vocabulary like misconception, peer review, greenhouse gases, anthropogenic, consensus, and logical fallacies through the FLICC framework. This lesson uses evid ...

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