Large iceberg (~42 km in long dimension) breaking up after calving from the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. Image aquired by NASA using the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 on December 15, 2017 (pineisland_oli_2017349_lrg.jpg).

1. Read : the study questions for this section, listed at https://croninprojects.org/Vince/Course/PhysGeol/Geo1405-Climate-Q.html and keep them in mind as you read the following assignments. Most, if not all, of the answers will be in the reading assignments for this topic.
2. Read: Earth , chapter 21 — the whole tamale.
   *Read means just what it says — read through the headings, stop to read text that seems interesting to you, look at the figures, and view all of the AV stuff (videos, animations, tutorials, concept checkers). Do these things in light of the study questions, so that you pick-up some information and know where to look for more information as you work to find the answers to those questions and understand the associated content.

Mastering Geology Reminder

Complete the Dyamic Study Module called Global Climate Change and then complete HW21 (online homework for chapter 21) by going to Mastering Geology through the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS).

Recommended Internet Resources

American Chemical Society (ACS)

ACS Climate Science Toolkit—
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience.html

ACS State of the Climate 2020 —
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/102/8/2021BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.xml

NASA

NASA Earth Observatory—
https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov

NASA Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet—
https://climate.nasa.gov

NASA Earth Observatory: The Carbon Cycle—
https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CarbonCycle

NASA Sea Level Change: Understanding Sea Level—
https://sealevel.nasa.gov

NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP), version 4, from NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies—
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

NOAA: Climate portal—
https://www.noaa.gov/climate

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory at the Mauna Loa Observatory—
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/mlo/

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory: data from the Mauna Loa Observatory showing trends in atmospheric CO₂—
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/data.html

NOAA Tides and Currents: Sea Level Trends—
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Argo Program—
http://www.argo.ucsd.edu

CO₂ Program—
https://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu

The Keeling Curve: atmospheric monitoring laboratory at the Mauna Loa Observatory—
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/

US Global Change Research Program (USGCRF)

USGCRF homepage
https://www.globalchange.gov

USGCRP Indicators of Climate Change
https://www.globalchange.gov/indicators
https://data.globalchange.gov/indicator?current=1

USGCRP, Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume 1
https://science2017.globalchange.gov

USGCRP, Fourth National Climate Assessment, Executive Summary
https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/executive-summary/

USGCRP, Fourth National Climate Assessment, Our Globally Changing Climate, v 1 ch 1
https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/1/

USGCRP, Fourth National Climate Assessment, V 2, Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States
https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-1
https://nca2018.globalchange.gov

United Nations (UN)

UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) homepage
https://www.ipcc.ch

UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/

UN Environmental Program | Emissions Gap Report 2021
https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2021

UN World Meteorological Organization | State of Global Climate 2021
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/state-of-climate-2021-extreme-events-and-major-impacts

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