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Topic(s): Land Use Changes, Human Responses to Climate

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

the precise combination of trees that would be most effective in reducing the level of greenhouse gases in the air around Syracuse. Team estimates that the tree combination could reduce carbon dioxide ...

Water, Water Everywhere

Topic(s): Ocean and Climate, Water Cycle, Carbon Cycle, Solar Radiation

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)

water is a short-lived greenhouse gas, this is an excellent description of how one of the greenhouse gases (water vapor) impacts climate. Very basic overview of how the sun drives the water cycle and ...

Studying Global Warming in Biosphere 2

Topic(s): Greenhouse Effect, Measurements and Observations

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

the video. Discusses how human activities have increasingly affected the quantity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Research scientists demonstrate and talk about their research, results and impl ...

At the Core of Climate Change

Topic(s): Paleoclimate Records

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

the greenhouse effect is based on absorption and reemission of Earth's infrared energy by greenhouse gases. Comments from expert scientist: It takes students into the places where the research is cond ...

Climate Science in a Nutshell: Where Does Carbon Dioxide Come From?

Topic(s): Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Anthropogenic Changes, Measurements and Observations, Measuring and Modeling Climate, Fossil Fuels, Energy Use

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

greenhouse effect that does not really explain it. Addresses carbon dioxide but not other greenhouse gases. The claims made in this video are not supported by references in the video or on its webpage ...

Team Marine - Young Voices for the Planet

Topic(s): Energy Use

Grade Level: Middle (6-8)

warming. It would be more accurate to say that the process of creating the bags produces greenhouse gases. Unless they are burned, the bags themselves don't produce carbon emissions. They missed an op ...

Increased Emissions: Climate Change, Lines of Evidence

Topic(s): Anthropogenic Changes

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

of carbon isotopes. Comments from expert scientist: The material goes through the main greenhouse gases and provides a discussion and graphs to indicate that they are increasing in a way that is unpre ...

Four Generations of Green

Topic(s): Emissions Reduction, Mitigation Strategies, Personal Responsibility

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

and reducing its carbon footprint in an industry that is typically a heavy emitter of greenhouse gases. The video briefly discusses the business decisions they've made to reduce their impact on the en ...

Modeling Our Climate

Topic(s): Climate System, Global Climate Modeling, Measuring and Modeling Climate, Process of Science, Nature of Climate Science

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

easy-to-understand resource. Some knowledge is anticipated, such as atmospheric layers and greenhouse gases. As the resource is kept very simple, it could generally be used for any non-scientific targ ...

A guide to the energy of the Earth

Topic(s): Global Energy Balance, Solar Radiation, Climate System, Energy Use

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

knows what convection is, and in this case the animation did not explain it well at all. - Greenhouse gases "trapping" longwave radiation isn't quite right, but is perhaps the best, simple metaphor fo ...

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