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Week 14: Causes of Climate Change

  What did you do in lab today?  This week in lab, we watched a video that discussed the science of climate change, and we also had a chance to work with an online simulation. This lab allowed us to play around with different molecules and observe how they were different from one another. I learned through this lab that the molecules that are vibrating are the major greenhouse gases.  ​ What was the big question? " What are the major causes of climate change?" What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion? In discussion this week I learned more about the albedo effect- both what it is and what it means. The albedo effect is the reflectivity of a surface, and I learned more specifically that an Albedo that = 1 means that it completely reflects radiation. Likewise, an albedo that = 0 completely absorbs radiation.  ​ Read the online textbook chapter:                                  ...