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Climate Change
Global Climate Change, a topic that includes Global Warming, refers to the relatively abrupt shift in weather patterns during the last hundred years.
Click here for a site map of the Climate Change Collection in the Encyclopedia of Earth.
Climate change information in the Encyclopedia of Earth derives from The Climate, Adaptation, Mitigation, E-Learning (CAMEL) project from the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD) of the National Council for Science and the Environment and is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education (0950396).
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Antarctic Ice: An 800,000 Year Record of Climate Change
Antarctic Ice: An 800,000 Year Record of Climate Change provides an extraordinary opportunity for scientists to reconstruct climate events of the past. Scientists have recently been able to assemble...
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Video: Global Warming's Six Americas
SUMMARY Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, discusses the divergent views of Americans over climate change. GOALS This help to clear the idea of what actually people think about climate change and...
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2011: Ninth Warmest Year
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth Warmest Year on Record The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which...
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Clouds exhibit schizophrenic tendencies with respect to Earths energy budget. They reflect incoming solar radi...
A wide range of organisms measure the CO2 concentration of their surroundings and are likely to alter their be...
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A three-year series of research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprec...
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As the sun sets over the Arctic Ocean and the air and water cool, sea ice begins its annual freeze-up. Arctic...
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World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event thatis aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated ...
SUMMARY Data Description Landsat Data has been prepared for each participating campus. Using the 30 yr Land...
SUMMARY This is a data-driven module designed to address key questions about the stability of the Earths cl...
SUMMARY In this computer exercise, students will compare and contrast satellite and ground data for temperatu...
SUMMARY Background:Though Florida AM University (FAMU) is an HBCU (Historically Black College/University), it...
SUMMARY Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, discusses the div...
SUMMARY CLEAN, the Climate Literacy Energy Awareness Network, is a National Science Digital Library Pathway o...
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Photos submitted by Donald Blake, University of California, Irvine. Images by NOAA P-3, taken July 2010....
The practice of science depends on the availability, and reliability, of a wide spectrum of tools. We are fami...
Agriculture Gallery II Humans began to cultivate food crops about 10,000 years ago. Prior to that time, hun...
Agriculture Gallery I Humans began to cultivate food crops about 10,000 years ago. Prior to that time, hunte...
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This is the third video in the Chemistry Calendar 2011, a joint project between Molecular Frontiers, Chalmers ...- On March 3, 1990, a team of six men from six different countries and their 42 sled dogs completed the first-e...
- Residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, and experts like John Holdren, exploring the human impacts of global climate ...
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