1.2 The Causes of Climate Change

1.2.1 Causes of Climate Change

1.2.2 Video: Steroids, Baseball, and Climate Change

This is an animated short with a good illustration of how weather and climate differ, and how climate is a statistical description of weather. AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system. Statistics and extreme behavior are involved, whether we're talking about baseball or Earth's atmosphere. https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/attribution/steroids-baseball-climate-change.

1.2.3 Video: The Carbon Cycle: Where Does Atmospheric Carbon Come From?

NSF video that addresses the question, "Where does the carbon in the atmosphere come from?