Introduction to Modern Climate Change

Chapter 07  ·  Resources

Why is the Climate Changing?

Attribution: how the planet’s orbit distributes sunlight, what internal variability does, and the authoritative summaries of the evidence.

Evidence and causes

Climate change: questions and answers The U.K. Royal Society has put out a nice "questions and answers" about climate change that summarizes many of the things talked about in Chapter 7 (as well as the other chapters in the book).
royalsociety.org ↗
Climate Change: Evidence & Causes Together with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, they’ve also put out a longer report that covers much of the same ground.
nationalacademies.org ↗

The planet’s orbit

How tilt distributes sunlight If you want to understand how the tilt of the planet affects how sunlight is distributed over the year, watch this video.
youtube.com ↗

ENSO

The drinking bird An analogue for internal variability of the climate system.
youtube.com ↗