1. Title and introduction:
Include in your introduction a brief discussion of what climate change is.
2. Causes of climate change:
What are the major factors that cause climate change?
Provide at least two major mechanisms and explain how they cause climate change. Discuss how they cause positive and negative feedbacks between each other.
3. The historical context of climate change in your geographic area:
What are some of the major climatic events in your area from 3 billion years ago to 1850 CE?
Provide at least two major events, discuss how we know they happened, and the impacts that they had on the area.
How has the climate in your area changed over the past ~100 years?
Use temperature data to reconstruct local temperature over the last 100 years for your area (you may have to look slightly farther afield for a dataset). Include a line of best fit, the equation of the line and the R2 value and a brief discussion of the graphs interpretation.
4. The implications of climate change in your geographic area:
Discuss at least two relevant regional and environmental issues with climate change in terms of natural resources (e.g. land use, extinction, invasive species, fires, hunting, etc.) in your area.
Discuss at least two relevant socio-economic effects (e.g. jobs, tourism, agriculture, water resources, etc.) of climate change in your area.
Discuss at least two mitigation and geoengineering strategies that may be applicable to your area to address continued and expected climate change.
Discuss what modeling and predictions have to say about climate change in your area and what you should expect in the future. Mention the limitations to such predictions.
5. Conclusion / Summary:
Provide a brief synopsis of all info found/reported
6 Citations:
Provide at the end of the assignment citations to the resources used in the creation of the assignment.
