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Scientifically and pedagogically reviewed digital resources for teaching about climate science, climate change, and energy awareness
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Climate and Energy Topics
- Climate System 4 matches Includes natural processes within the climate system: orbital patterns, solar radiation, oceans, atmosphere, water cycle, the natural greenhouse effect, carbon cycle, regional climates and differences between climate and weather.
- Causes of Climate Change 2 matches Includes natural changes (cyclic variability, volcanic eruptions, solar output) and human-caused changes (due to GHG emissions and land use changes)
- Measuring and Modeling Climate 12 matches Instrumental measurements, proxy data, climate model projections
- Climate Impacts 19 matches Includes sea level rise; extreme weather; drought; changes to ecosystems, plants and animals; melting ice and permafrost; ocean wamring; impacts to water resources, agriculture, public health and national security
- Human Responses to Climate 3 matches Includes policy, mitigation, adaptation, risk management, personal responsibility
- Nature of Climate Science 1 match Includes the process of science and common misconceptions about climate science
- Energy Use 1 match Sources of energy, usage trends, conservation, policy
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Climate Literacy Principles
- Humans can take action 4 matches Humans can take actions to reduce climate change and its impacts.
- Climate is complex 1 match Climate is regulated by complex interactions among components of the Earth system
- Life affects climate; climate affects life 2 matches Life on Earth depends on, is shaped by, and affects climate
- Climate is variable 7 matches Climate varies over space and time through both natural and man-made processes
- Our understanding of climate 6 matches Our understanding of the climate system is improved through observations, theoretical studies, and modeling
- Climate change has consequences 20 matches Climate change will have consequences for the Earth system and human lives
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Google Earth Tours of Glacier Change
A detailed Google Earth tour of glacier change over the last 50 years is given in class as an introduction. Students are then asked to select from a group of glaciers and create their own Google ...
Changing Planet: Withering Crops
This video examines what will happen to crops as Earth's temperature rises and soils dry out because of changing climate. Students learn that a loss of soil moisture causes stress to plants, leading ...
NOVA ScienceNOW profile on Lonnie Thompson - Tropical Glaciologist
This video describes why tropical ice cores are important and provide different information than polar ice cores, why getting them now is important (they are disappearing), and how scientists get ...
Projected Impact of Climate Change
This visualization is a chart that displays future climate change in terms of temperature increases and the impacts and Food, Water, Ecosystems, Extreme Weather Events, and Risk of Abrupt and ...
Changing Planet: Melting Glaciers
This NBC Learn video features climate scientists doing their research on Mt. Kilimanjaro to study the climate of the past. The scientists put the recently observed changes on the glacier into ...
The impact of a global temperature rise of 2C
This poster, viewable online, highlights some of the impacts of a global-average temperature rise of 2 degrees C above the pre-industrial age climate.
Climate Change Affects Glacial Water Source
This video discusses how the populous areas west of the Andes are largely desert and rely on glacial meltwater as an important source of fresh water. Because the Peruvian glaciers high in the Andes ...
