Climate Change: Fitting the Pieces Together
Earth Gauge and the COMET Program have designed a two-hour course for that provides a basic overview of climate change science and resources to answer common questions about climate change. Although initially designed for broadcast meteorologists, the course is a good primer for anyone interested in climate change.
This and other COMET-NEEF courses are offered for continuing education credit under the American Meteorological Society’s Certified Broadcast Meteorology Program.
What You’ll Learn
What Changes Climate? From the whirling of the Earth to combustion chambers of a V-8 engine, a look at what influences Earth’s climate. Plus, climate highlights of a few hundred million years of Earth’s history.
Is It Real? Warming air and oceans, beetle-ridden trees and thawing glaciers are sending a message. This unit examines the evidence for change and what we know about its probable cause.
How Do We Know? From old-fashioned thermometers to computers running mind-bending mathematical models, this is how we know what’s happening now, and what’s likely to happen in the future.
Why Should We Care? Why a few degrees warming should make us sit up and take notice, and why most of us in the U.S. may see the first effects of climate change in our mailboxes.
How Sure are Scientists? Learn about the buzzwords that describe IPCC scientists’ level of certainty about current and future climate changes. Also, a look at what climate scientists really think.
What Next? Don’t panic, but don’t get complacent either. Here’s what we as a society and as individuals can do, as well as how climate science is progressing.
