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    The Greenhouse Effect [Text]
    The carbon cycle and how people are changing it's balance [Video, 4minutes]
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    How ESA deploys their satelites to understand climate change [Video, 5 minutes]
    Quiz on Climate change Basics
    The detailed physical sciences report of IPCC
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    3. Understanding risks related to climate change
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    • Why another course on climate change?
    • 1. Climate change Basics
    • 2. Impacts of climate change
    • 3. Understanding risks related to climate change
    • 4. Key concepts in climate action
    • 5. Climate justice, climate governance and enabling mecahnisms
    • 6. Individual and collective actions for change
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    • 1. Climate change Basics

      1. Climate change Basics

      ( Approximately 1 hour 25 minutes of on-screen time = 4 hours 15 mins of student workload hours)

      Understanding climate concepts

        The Earth's climate is changing, and people's activities are the main cause.

      Our world is always changing. Look out your window long enough, and you might see the weather change. Look even longer, and you'll see the seasons change. The Earth's climate is changing, too, but in ways that you can't easily see. The Earth is getting warmer because people are adding heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere, mainly by burning fossil fuels. These gases are called greenhouse gases. Warmer temperatures are causing other changes around the world, such as melting glaciers and stronger storms. These changes are happening because the Earth's air, water, and land are all linked to the climate. The Earth's climate has changed before, but this time is different. People are causing these changes, which are bigger and happening faster than any climate changes that modern society has ever seen before. 

      • Climate change basics [Video, 3 minutes] URL
      • Understanding climate change the WWF way [External content, 30 mins] URL
      • Deepening the understanding of climate concepts [Text] Page
      • The Greenhouse Effect [Text] Page
      • The carbon cycle and how people are changing it's balance [Video, 4minutes] URL
      • Earth's climate in the past [Text] Page
      • The physical science basis [Video, 9 minutes] URL
      • What are RCP's? [Text] Page
      • How ESA deploys their satelites to understand climate change [Video, 5 minutes] URL
      • Quiz on Climate change Basics

        Answer the 10 random question. You need to score a minimum of 6 to advance to the next section



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      • The detailed physical sciences report of IPCC URL
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