Climate Change Unit Assignment: Environmental Initiative Proposal This assignment is a tool that is being used to assess your cumulative knowledge of all that you have learned about climate change. You will need to show your knowledge of climate change and your ability to critically analyze the different aspects of the material. In particular, you should consider the following things: 1. You will need to define what exactly Climate Change means so that your audience understands what you are talking about (Audience = Government body; Social media crowd you are catering to) a. Your definition must be simple enough for normal people to understand, but not so simple that basic scientific principles are trivialized b. Define Climate Change using the following parameters i. Primary cause - effect relationship (climate is sensitive to temperature) Secondary cause - effect relationship ii. (global warming is both natural and human caused) iii. Tertiary cause - effect relationship (GHG levels naturally change, but humans are dramatically affecting the concentrations of GHG's in the atmosphere)

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Climate Change Unit Assignment:
Environmental Initiative Proposal
This assignment is a tool that is being used to assess your cumulative knowledge of all
that you have learned about climate change. You will need to show your knowledge of
climate change and your ability to critically analyze the different aspects of the material.
In particular, you should consider the following things:
1. You will need to define what exactly Climate Change means so that your
audience understands what you are talking about
(Audience = Government body; Social media crowd you are catering to)
a. Your definition must be simple enough for normal people to understand,
but not so simple that basic scientific principles are trivialized
b. Define Climate Change using the following parameters
i.
Primary cause - effect relationship
(climate is sensitive to temperature)
Secondary cause - effect relationship
(global warming is both natural and human caused)
Tertiary cause - effect relationship
(GHG levels naturally change, but humans are dramatically
affecting the concentrations of GHG's in the atmosphere)
ii.
ii.
2. What are the effects of all the changing climates around the world?
a. Higher average global air temperature reduces frozen water, affects many
peoples adversely
b. Ocean temperatures rise causing havoc with aquatic ecosystems
c. Sea level rises, which affects coastlines around the world
d. Water changes affects the overall heat flow (air and oceans) resulting in
more frequent violent storms
e. More extreme flooding and droughts
3. What are the causes of Global Warming, which causes Climate Change?
a. Natural warming and cooling trends that occur over geological timescales
(the rising and falling of mountains; shifting of the continents)
b. Many Human promoted causes (individual carbon footprints as well as
other sources of the 4 major greenhouse gases (GHG's)
Transcribed Image Text:Climate Change Unit Assignment: Environmental Initiative Proposal This assignment is a tool that is being used to assess your cumulative knowledge of all that you have learned about climate change. You will need to show your knowledge of climate change and your ability to critically analyze the different aspects of the material. In particular, you should consider the following things: 1. You will need to define what exactly Climate Change means so that your audience understands what you are talking about (Audience = Government body; Social media crowd you are catering to) a. Your definition must be simple enough for normal people to understand, but not so simple that basic scientific principles are trivialized b. Define Climate Change using the following parameters i. Primary cause - effect relationship (climate is sensitive to temperature) Secondary cause - effect relationship (global warming is both natural and human caused) Tertiary cause - effect relationship (GHG levels naturally change, but humans are dramatically affecting the concentrations of GHG's in the atmosphere) ii. ii. 2. What are the effects of all the changing climates around the world? a. Higher average global air temperature reduces frozen water, affects many peoples adversely b. Ocean temperatures rise causing havoc with aquatic ecosystems c. Sea level rises, which affects coastlines around the world d. Water changes affects the overall heat flow (air and oceans) resulting in more frequent violent storms e. More extreme flooding and droughts 3. What are the causes of Global Warming, which causes Climate Change? a. Natural warming and cooling trends that occur over geological timescales (the rising and falling of mountains; shifting of the continents) b. Many Human promoted causes (individual carbon footprints as well as other sources of the 4 major greenhouse gases (GHG's)
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Climate is the long-term average of the weather over almost 30 years. The primary factors of climate are temperature, precipitation, and wind patterns.
Wind circulation and ocean circulation plays a major role in climate pattern over the globe. Climate change has occurred over a geological timescale due to natural and anthropogenic causes.

 

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