Module 1: What’s the problem?
Module 1.0: Overview
Let’s get started. Module 1 consists of 3 sub-modules that cover the following topics:
- Core concepts of climate science
- Global context
- Greenhouse effect, global trend on GHG concentrations, global temperature trend
- Difference between weather, natural climate variability, climate change
- Weather, natural climate variability, & climate change each represent different time scales, from immediate short-term days and weeks, to years, to multiple-decades
- BC trends and scenarios
- Using climate change information in applications
- Sources of climate and climate change information
- Importance of tracking changes in water, snow and ice