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Climate Science in the Classroom

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ClimateScience

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Classroom

Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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Use the science of climate and climate change to engage students as you introduce or exemplify many classroom chemistry concepts; for example

• phase change• electromagnetic radiation energy• energy conservation• molecular structure• isotopes• heat capacity• equilibrium• acid-base chemistry

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Phase changes in Earth’s ice/water

Land and sea ice are disappearing. Why?

Grinnell Glacier, Glacier Nat'l Park, 1940

Grinnell Glacier, Glacier Nat'l Park, 2006

Source: NOAA

Source: NOAA

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Electromagnetic radiation

Source: Wikipedia

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Electromagnetic radiation and planetary energy balance

Energy balance: solar energy in = planet radiant energy out

(mostly visible) (thermal infrared)

Source: WikipediaSource: American Chemical Society (ACS)

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Electromagnetic radiation and planetary energy balance

Energy balance: solar energy in = planet radiant energy out

(mostly visible) (thermal infrared)

Source: ACS

Source: ACS

Source: ACS

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Electromagnetic radiation and planetary energy balance

Energy balance: solar energy in = planet radiant energy out

(mostly visible) (thermal infrared)

Tobs > T P Are the atmospheres responsible? If so, how?Source: ACS

Source: ACS

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Electromagnetic radiation and planetary energy balance

Energy imbalance: solar energy in > planet radiant energy out

(mostly visible) (thermal infrared)

Source: ACS

Source: ACS

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Electromagnetic radiation and planetary energy balance

Energy balance is attained when the planet is warm enough to emit

sufficient energy to compensate for the atmospheric trapping.

Tobs > T P

Source: ACS

Source: ACS

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Electromagnetic radiation and planetary energy balance

Since the Industrial Revolution, burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, & gas) has

added large amounts of greenhouse gases to Earth's atmosphere.

Source: IPCC

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Electromagnetic radiation and planetary energy balance

Since the Industrial Revolution, burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, & gas) has

added large amounts of greenhouse gases to Earth's atmosphere.

Source: IPCC

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Electromagnetic radiation and planetary energy balance

Since the Industrial Revolution, burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, & gas) has

added large amounts of greenhouse gases to Earth's atmosphere.

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energy imbalance

balance T? > Tobs

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Electromagnetic radiation and planetary energy balance

Due to the energy imbalance (more in than out), Earth is warming as

the extra energy is being stored.

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Skeptical Science

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Oceans' role in climate science

Oceans store energy, move it around the planet in great currents, and

dissolve carbon dioxide.

CO2(g) <==> CO2(aq)

CO2(aq) + H2O <==> HOCO2–(aq) + H+(aq)

HOCO2–(aq) <==> CO3

2–(aq) + H+(aq)

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Oceans' role in climate science

Oceans store energy, move it around the planet in great currents, and

dissolve carbon dioxide.

CO2(g) <==> CO2(aq)

CO2(aq) + H2O <==> HOCO2–(aq) + H+(aq)

HOCO2–(aq) <==> CO3

2–(aq) + H+(aq)

Ca2+(aq) + 2HOCO2–(aq) <==> CaCO3 + CO2(aq) + H2O

Phytoplankton are the base of the oceanic food chain.

Source: Alison R. Taylor (University of North Carolina Wilmington Microscopy Facility)

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Oceans' role in climate science

Oceans store energy, move it around the planet in great currents, and

dissolve carbon dioxide.

CO2(g) <==> CO2(aq)

CO2(aq) + H2O <==> HOCO2–(aq) + H+(aq)

HOCO2–(aq) <==> CO3

2–(aq) + H+(aq)

Ca2+(aq) + 2HOCO2–(aq) <==> CaCO3 + CO2(aq) + H2O

Phytoplankton are the base of the oceanic food chain.

Ocean acidification

Source: Alison R. Taylor (University of North Carolina Wilmington Microscopy Facility

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Source: IPCC