Climate Change - Y11 Activity

The syllabus states that:

"Students should be aware of the conflicting nature of the evidence for and against global warming".

Your task is to produce a report entitled

"The Greenhouse Effect:

Fact or Fiction?"

• Begin by...including an introduction in which you explain about the NATURAL Greenhouse Effect and then discuss the ENHANCED Greenhouse Effect (diagrams would be useful here)
• Then...state the evidence from the scientific community that i) climate change is happening and the enhanced greenhouse effect is fact and ii) climate change is not happening and the enhanced greenhouse effect is fiction (think carefully about layout and presentation - make your text accessible to the reader via bullet points, tables, diagrams etc.)
• Finally...evaluate this evidence and come to your own conclusion using the evidence to support what you are saying.

Use the following PAPER RESOURCES:

1 GeoFile 386
2 GeoActive 202

Use the following WEBSITES:

Background Information:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/

Evidence FOR:

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/index.cfm

http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/issues/climate_change/index.html

http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/0,12374,782494,00.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/

http://www.climatehotmap.org/euroruss.html

Evidence AGAINST:

http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg16221923.000-greenhouse-sceptics.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/in_depth/629/629/7074601.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_467000/467007.stm

http://www.john-daly.com/

http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html