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  • Home
    • IB Geography Intro
    • Assessment Outline >
      • Mark Bands
      • Command Terms
    • Concepts in IB Geography
  • IB Geo Units
    • The Core >
      • 1. Changing Population >
        • 1. Population and economic development patterns
        • 2. Changing population & places
        • 3. Challenges & opportunities
      • 2. Global Climate Change >
        • 1. Causes of climate change
        • 2. Consequences of climate change
        • 3. Responding to climate change
      • 3. Global Resource Consumption >
        • 1. Global trends in consumption
        • 2. The Impacts of changing trends in resource consumption
        • 3. Resource stewardship
      • Infographic Analysis
    • Options >
      • B. Oceans & Coastal Margins >
        • 1. Ocean–atmosphere interactions
        • 2. Oceans & Coastal Places
        • 3. Managing coastal margins
        • 4. Ocean management futures
      • D: Geophysical Hazards >
        • 1. Geophysical systems
        • 2. Geophysical Hazard Risks
        • 3. Hazard Risk and Vulnerability
        • 4. Future Resilience and Adaptation
      • E. Leisure, Tourism & Sport >
        • 1. Changing leisure patterns
        • 2. Tourism and sport at the local and national scale
        • 3. Tourism & sport at the international scale
        • 4. Managing tourism and sport for the future
      • F. Food & Health >
        • 1. Measuring Food & Health
        • 2. Food Systems & Spread of Disease
        • 3. Stakeholders in Food & Health
        • 4. Future Health & Food Secuirty
      • G. Urban Environments >
        • 1. The variety of urban environments
        • 2. Changing urban systems
        • 3. Urban stresses
        • 4. Sustainable Cities
    • Global Interactions >
      • 4. Power, Place and Networks >
        • 1. Global interactions and global power
        • 2. Global networks and flows
        • 3. Human and physical influences on global interactions
      • 5. Human development and diversity >
        • 1. Development opportunities
        • 2. Changing identities and cultures
        • 3. Local responses to global interactions
      • 6. Global risks and resilience >
        • 1. Geopolitical and economic risks
        • 2. Environmental risks
        • 3. Local and global resilience
    • Case Studies
    • Internal Assessment >
      • Ko Samet Introduction
      • Butlers Model
      • Fieldwork Prep
      • Report Prep Resources
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      • GPS - Geographic Proficiency Skills
      • Map Skills
      • Written Skills
      • Analytical Skills
      • Field Work Skills
    • Revision
  • MYP I&S
    • Y9 I&S >
      • Unit 1: Sustainable Futures >
        • 1. Introducing Sustainability
        • 2. Visioning Our Future
        • 3. Creating Sustainable Futures
      • Unit 2: Money Matters
      • Unit 3: Conflict
      • Y9 Current Events
    • Y10 I&S >
      • Castaway - Intro Activity
      • Unit 1: Oceans - The Big Blue
      • Unit 2: It's All Connected
      • Unit 3: Social Enterprises
      • Unit 4: Catalysts for Change
      • Unit 5: IDU - Expressions for Change
      • UN SDGs
      • Current Events
    • Y11 I&S >
      • Unit 1: Development
      • Unit 2: The Psychology of Marginalization
      • Unit 3: The Russian Revolution
  • Geo@NIST
    • Support Resources
    • Extended Essay
    • Geo Inspiration
    • Why Geography?
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1. Causes of global climate change

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Syllabus Link: How natural and human processesaffect the

​                                     global energy balance

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The Atmospheric System

The atmospheric system, including the natural greenhouse effect and energy balance (incoming shortwave radiation and outgoing longwave radiation) ​

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   Activity: Layers of the Atmosphere
   Website: The atmosphere and the greenhouse effect
   Activity: Fill in the blanks
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   PDF: Guide to the atmosphere


Changes in the Global Energy Balance

Changes in the global energy balance, and the role of feedback loops, resulting from:

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   Articles: Risk of domino effect through tipping points
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   Article: Domino effect could turn world into a hothouse
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   Article: Our oceans broke heat records, the consequences could be catastrophic
   Article: 
Tipping point for arctic hotspot   

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   Notes: Changes in the Global Energy Balance
   Website: Changes in the Energy Budget

Solar radiation variations, including global dimming due to volcanic eruptions

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Terrestrial albedo changes and feedback loops

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Methane gas release and feedback loops 

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         Article: Huge ice age methane blowout
      

The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect

The enhanced greenhouse effect and international variations in greenhouse gas sources and emissions, in relation to economic development, globalization and trade ​

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   Interactive:  What's warming the world?
   Video Map: The carbon map
 
 Article: Big rise in CO2 expected
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   Article: 70% of emissions from 100 companies
   
Article: HL Connection- Is globalization worsening the effects of climate change

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