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Carbon cycle diagram

Carbon Cycle Diagram

Carbon Cycle Diagram

Carbon Cycle Diagram from the DOE

Climate system from IPCC AR4

Climate system from IPCC AR4

Koppen Geiger Climate Classification

Climates of the World

Coal strip mine and truck carrying dirt

Coal Strip Mine

Map of where the Glacial Lake Agassiz was located in North America. The Glacial Lake Agassiz covered much of the Canadian province of Manitoba, extending into Saskatchewan and Ontario, and south into North Dakota and Minnesota.

Glacial Lake Agassiz

The graph shows global annual mean surface temperature change from 1880 to 2020. The temperature anomaly begins at -0.2 degrees Celcius in 1880 and dips down to -0.4 degrees by 1910, but then raises steadily to around zero by 1940. From 1940 to 1980 it averages around zero, but then increases steadily all the way to 2000.

Global annual mean surface temperature change

Diagram demonstrating how greenhouse gases trap heat

How Greenhouse Gases Trap Heat

part of the comic explaining how to calculate global average temperature

How to Measure Global Average Temperature in Five Easy Steps

A line graph showing temperature change over time, both with the impact of humans and without.

Just Add Humans: Model Simulations of 20th Century Climate

Drawings of close up pollen particles from pine, hemlock, and sweet gum

Pollen Picture

Image showing global energy flows radiating and absorbing between the sun and the surface of the earth

Radiation Budget Diagram for Earth's Atmosphere

Map of unusual cold temperatures in Europe during the summer of 1816 showing summer temperatures up to three degrees C lower than usual.

The Year Without a Summer

Tree Rings

Tree Rings

Effects of an Increase on Mean Temperature

What Does it Mean to Change the Mean?

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This material is based upon work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, a major facility sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.