1) "It's not warming

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1) "It's not warming."

• Explain 'Cherry Picking' data in time (is it getting colder or warmer?) or space ("It's so cold in this location this winter")
• Consider factors other than the temperature record that indicate that the globe is warming
• How many scientific organizations agree that the Earth is warming?
• Temperature fluctuations are a natural process.
  • Explain the difference between climate change and natural variation
    • climate variation

2. How do we know it's not the Sun: Sunspots, Milankovitch Cycles, nights warming faster than days, the stratosphere is cooling.

• How do we know it's not Volcanoes: calculations, the Keeling curve.
• Three factors can change a planet's temperature: The Sun, the Albedo, and Greenhouse Gases
  • We explained the Sun above,
  • Deforestation is causing land surfaces to become lighter which would cool the Earth,
  • That leaves us with Greenhouse gases.
• Greenhouse gases do warm air
  • Explain the Greenhouse Effect
  • Explain the CO₂ in a bottle experiment
• The rising CO₂ IS from Humans:
  • The timing and the amount add up: we are emitting twice as much CO₂ as that being added to the atmosphere (where does the rest go?)
  • It's not from Volcanoes: calculations, the Keeling curve, declining O₂ shows that respiration or burning were involved.
  • The steady decline in ¹⁴C shows the signature of ¹⁴C depleted fossil fuels being added to the atmosphere

3. 2°C can't have an impact" (3.6°F) 

• Arctic amplification and the Wavy Jet Stream
• Melting Greenland and arctic Ice and the slowing of the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt
• Sea Level Rise - use some specifics
• Provide examples of extreme weather events that are already happening.
• Coral Reefs

4. here is nothing we can do to solve this problem

• Compare and contrast the various greenhouse gases and what would need to be done to reduce these emissions.
• Compare and contrast Carbon incentives, Carbon Tax, and Carbon Fee and Dividend.
  • Discuss the results of  Carbon Footprint.