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Climate Contributions
Provided by: King's Centre for Visualization in Science |Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- In this interactive graph, students choose different factors that have historically contributed to climate change and observe how the factors impact changes in average global temperature.
- Students will learn how solar radiation, volcanic activity, aerosols, land use, ozone, and other greenhouse gases have impacted the average global temperature, according to historical simulations.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: King's Center for Visualization in Science
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- Students can spend time experimenting with changing and combining factors on the graph to observe how they caused changes in global average temperature.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students should be familiar with greenhouse gases, aerosols, land use change, carbon sinks, solar radiation, volcanic activity, and ozone.
- The graph shows the temperature change in Celsius.
Differentiation
- Students could discuss why the graph includes the horizontal line representing the global average temperature for the pre-industrial period of 1850-1859.
- Earth science classes could reflect on the following questions:
- Why do some factors have both cooling and heating effects?
- According to the graph, deforestation has a net cooling effect. Does this mean that cutting down forests will help to solve climate change? Why or why not?
- Aerosols can have a net cooling or a net warming effect. What do you know about the net cooling effects of certain aerosols? Could there be any negative ramifications to net cooling aerosols?
- Which of the factors on the graph are within human control? Which factors do humans have little or no control over?
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About the Partner Provider
King's Centre for Visualization in Science
The King's Centre for Visualization in Science is a research center committed to improving the global public understanding of science through research and the creation and dissemination of peer-reviewed interactive electronic learning tools to see and understand science.
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