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Enrichments

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  • The Simplest Climate Model
  • Weather Forecasts End, But Climate Forecasts Continue
  • Carbon Dioxide is more Important than Water Vapor as a Greenhouse Gas
  • Humans are Primarily Responsible for the Rise in CO2
  • Global Warming Did Not Stop Recently
  • Better Climate Models
‹ Summary and Final Tasks up The Simplest Climate Model ›

Earth 104: Energy and the Environment

Modules

  • Unit 1: Energy and Environment
    • Module 1: Why Energy Matters
    • Module 2: What is Energy?
    • Module 3: Oil, Coal & Natural Gas | Drilling, Fracking & Reserves
    • Module 4: Global Warming - Physics
      • Goals and Objectives
      • Roadmap
      • The Unavoidable Warmness of Burning
      • The Warming from the So-Far-Unavoidable Burning
      • Summative Assessment
      • Summary and Final Tasks
      • Enrichments
        • The Simplest Climate Model
        • Weather Forecasts End, But Climate Forecasts Continue
        • Carbon Dioxide is more Important than Water Vapor as a Greenhouse Gas
        • Humans are Primarily Responsible for the Rise in CO2
        • Global Warming Did Not Stop Recently
        • Better Climate Models
    • Module 5: Global Warming - History
  • Unit 2: Comparing Energy Choices
  • Unit 3: A Path Forward

Authors: Richard B. Alley, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, Seth Blumsack, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, David Bice, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, Team Lead: Maureen Feineman, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University. Learning Designer: April Millet, The Pennsylvania State University

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