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Climate Change Analysis Questions
- What is Climate Change?
- How does it differ from daily variations in the weather?
- Describe two ways that climate change is affecting the Earth.
- How are humans contributing to the current change in climate? (Two things).
- What evidence did you see in the Keeling Curve data to support this belief?
- What was the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and temperature in the graph?
- A car gets very hot in the summer sun. Explain why this happens.
- How is this an example of a greenhouse effect?
- What happens to incoming solar variation? (three events).
- What does the Earth’s natural greenhouse effect do for our survival? (What does it do to affect heat energy that is re-radiated by the earth and atmosphere? (What would the Earth be like without this natural effect?
- How do greenhouse gases help to regulate the Earth’s temperature?
- Which human activities are responsible for the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases?
- What effect does the increased concentration of greenhouse gases have on the natural greenhouse effect?
Keeling Curve Graph Analysis
- What measurements are shown on this graph?
- When did the collection of these data begin?
- What’s the name of the curve you drew (the scientist who discovered these data)?
- What is the relationship between carbon emissions and temperature? (How do the emissions affect the
temperature?)
- What is contributing to the increase in CO2 emissions?
- Do the values go up all the time? What do we call this?
- Why do the values go up and down?
- Do the values generally go up over the course of time? What do we call this?
- The mean temperature of the planet is 13.9 0 How much has the temperature changed?
- What will happen to the mean temperature if carbon emissions continue increasing?
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