A Curriculum Guide to Confronting Climate Change in California

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Today's students need to know about climate change-- what it is, why it is occurring, how it will impact them, and what can be done about it. Heat-trapping gas emissions from power plants, vehicles, and clearing forests are contributing to rising global temperatures and a changing climate. Without a reduction in these emissions, the Earth's surface temperature is predicted to rise 2.5 to 10.4 F between 1990 and 2100 during the lifetime of today's students. Such an increase is likely to have dramatic impacts upon human society. It will be up to today's students to make many of the crucial decisions on how human society will meet the climate change challenge. It is our responsibility to ensure that future generations are prepared.

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Primary or BEN resource type	Assignment/activity (non-laboratory)
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Format	pdf
Ecological Core Concept	Human impacts -- Climate change Human impacts
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Pedagogical Use Description	A series of classroom activities to address the likely impacts of climate change. It is designed to be used with the ESA/UCS report Confronting Climate Change in California. Educators are encouraged to select and modify the activities in accordance with their curricular needs.
Keywords	California, climate change, global warming, curriculum guide, carbon, carbon dioxide
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	Union of Concerned Scientists
Primary Author Affiliation	Union of Concerned Scientists
Primary Author email	n/a
Rights	n/a
Resource Editor	Unknown
Reviewer A	Unknown
Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	2001-01-01

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