Lab Assignment: Climate Change

1. What's the difference between climate and weather?

2. What is positive feedback and give an example as it relates to climates

3. What is negative feedback and give an example as it relates to climates

4. Explain what a greenhouse gas is and list three of them.

5. What are the three components of the Earth's orbit that can contribute to affect climate? what is the name given to these cycles?

Go to climate nasa on the bottom of the screen look for and click artic ice minimum.

6. How has the arctic ice changed through time?

Click on average global temperature.

7. Slide the bar and watch what happens. How has the average temperature of the Earth changed over time?

Click on sea level rise

8. What is the current rate of change in mm per year?

9. How has this level changed historically over time?

Go to the carbon map. Click the play button to see a brief introduction.

10. Click on population, which continent has the greatest human population?

11. Click the reset button in the upper left corner Change the "shade by" to emissions change and click on China. In the past 23 years by what percent has their emissions changed?

12. Now click on India, in the past 23 years by what percent has their emissions changed?

13. Change the "shade by" to CO2 per person. Click on the United States. What is the average amount of CO2 emitted by each person?

14. Now click on China. What is the average amount of CO2 emitted by each person?

15. How many more tons of CO2 is emitted per person in the United States vs. China(think subtraction)

16. Change the "shade by" to GDP per person. Click on the United States. What is the GDP per person?

17. Click on China. What is the GDP per person?

18. As the emerging and developing economies of countries such as China and India continue to grow and the billions of persons in those countries see their wealth grow how may this effect CO2 emitted?

Go to this website: How much fossil fuel has been used in your lifetime?

Click on the down arrows within the pictures to advance, reading the figures along the way. You will eventually reach this screen:

19. At the current rate of consumption about how old will you be when humanity uses up its carbon budget?

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