AHS278

Describe the climate system, its components, and their interactions.

Describe how the greenhouse effect warms the earth and identify the relationship between greenhouse gases and changing climate.

Identify the main features of the atmospheric and oceanic circulations and explain their role in maintaining the climatic equilibrium.

Explain why a warmer climate may be more variable or extreme and why it may be less variable or extreme.

Analyze the impact of changing climate on human society and society’s historical response to these changes.

Identify the international organizations addressing climate change and assess their organizational strengths and weaknesses.

Identify possible solutions to mitigate and/or adapt to modern climate change and evaluate one such solution in terms of how effective it might be.