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Feedback Loops - Atmosphere

Provided by: Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops |Published on: June 14, 2022
Videos Grades 9-12

Synopsis

  • This video outlines two feedback loops related to the effects of global warming on moisture in the atmosphere and changes in the jet streams. 
  • It uses graphics, maps, interviews, and video footage to explain the connections between changing weather patterns and global warming, and provides information about solutions that will help fight climate change.
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Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Bonnie Waltch, Susan Gray
Region: Global
Languages: English

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Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops
While most people have heard of global warming, few understand environmental feedback loops, which are amplifying and accelerating the process. In Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops, a series of five short films ranging from 8-14 minutes, 12 climate scientists explain how warming caused by human activity is setting in motion Earth’s own natural mechanisms, releasing additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and further heating up the planet. Out of dozens of environmental feedback loops, Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops focuses on four areas, explaining how warming in forests, permafrost, the atmosphere, and the poles work together to accelerate warming cycles.

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