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Earth 104: Climate, Energy, and Our Future

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  2. EARTH 104 - Climate, Energy and Our Future
  3. Unit 1: Energy and Environment
  4. Module 4: Global Warming - Physics

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

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Modules

  • EARTH 104 - Climate, Energy and Our Future
    • 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
        • 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, Seth Blumsack, and David Bice, The Pennsylvania State University

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