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Global Environmental Obstacles
Walter Borowski, Eastern Kentucky University
The course uses Mackenzie's Our Changing Planet as a template and investigates world population, diminishing water resources, anthropogenic effects on the atmosphere (ozone hole and acid rain), and global ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geoscience:Hydrology, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Air Quality, Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Ozone depletion, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science:Human Population
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory

The Earth's Climate System
Louisa Bradtmiller, Macalester College
This course will be taught once per year. It provides an introduction to the climate system through lectures, labs, discussions and activities. It uses lecture and inquiry based activities to help students gain ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse effect, Climate feedbacks, Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino, Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Greenhouse gas emissions, Global change modeling, Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic causes, Paleoclimate records, Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Solar radiation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, El Nino/La Nina
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory

Global Climate Change
This interdisciplinary courses focuses on how and why Earth's climate has changed thoughout its history and how it is likely to change in the near future. It draws from geology, chemistry, meteorology, ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Environmental Science:Policy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)

Causes and Implications of Global Change
This course embodies an integrated introduction to the broad scientific and social aspects of the global change "problem." Two large Global Change issues are discussed in terms of the science, the impacts ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Public policy , Greenhouse effect, Geoscience, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Public policy, Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Policy
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?
Jonathan Geisler, Georgia Southern University
Skip to Main ContentSkip to Navigation Login Teach the Earth the portal for Earth Education From NAGT's On the Cutting Edge Collection ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change:Greenhouse effect
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)