Chapter 10: Global Climate Change
Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
Be able to describe the greenhouse effect and its importance
Understand how the carbon cycle works
Describe and explain the causes and possible effects of climate changes
Explain the role of recent geologic, environmental, and climate history studies in forecasting the probability and scale of hazardous processes and future natural catastrophes or trends
Reading
Reading
Other Helpful Resources
Other Helpful Resources
Vision Learning: Factors that Control Earth’s Temperature
Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas Video
How much carbon dioxide is produced when different fuels are burned?
NASA: Solutions to Climate Change
Chasing Ice: Award winning documentary of Global Climate Change
350.Org: Building a Global Climate Movement