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INTRODUCTORY GEOLOGY
CLIMATE CHANGE
6.8 STUDENT RESPONSES
1. Based exclusively on the data provided and your graph, what conclusion would
you make regarding climate change?
a. Sea ice is expanding, which indicates an increase in temperature
b. Sea ice is expanding, which indicates a decrease in temperature
c. Sea ice is contracting, which indicates an increase in temperature
d. Sea ice is contracting, which indicates a decrease in temperature
2.
What is slope of the line of best Ft for this data?
a. 0.008 million square kilometers per year
b. 0.05 million square kilometers per year
c. -0.05 million square kilometers per year
d. 0.017 million square kilometers per year
e. -0.17 million square kilometer per year
f. 0.033 million square kilometer per year
3. Even though the above data is accurate, give and explain two reasons why this
dataset might lead you to an incorrect conclusion regarding global climate change.
4.
What is the slope of the line of best Ft you estimated for this data set?
Make
sure to show your work.
5. What conclusion about climate change could you make from this dataset? How
does your result for the extended dataset compare to the results from the data
presented in the article (Part A)?

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6.1 INTRODUCTION
Climate is an average of the long-term weather patterns across a geographic ar-
ea, which is a complicated metric controlled by factors within the lithosphere, at-
mosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and anthrosphere as well as factors
beyond our own planet. It is helpful to separate out humans from other life (anthro
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sphere verses biosphere) for several reasons, primarily because many of our activi-
ties are unique amongst life (industrialization) and it is helpful in understanding our
role in climate change. Therefore, the science examining past, current, and future
climate is extremely complex and interdisciplinary. You may not think of climate
as a geological Feld of study, but the history of climate is recorded within rocks, the
current climate is altered by geologic events, and future climate will be in±uenced by
our use of geological resources such as fossil fuels.
In addition to the complex nature
of this subject, it is also one, if not the most, important scientiFc Felds of study both
in terms of understanding the dynamics and implications of future climate change
as well as attempting to combat or mitigate the potential e²ects.
Though the basic science behind climate and climate change has been well
studied to a point of near consensus within the scientiFc community, there is still
signiFcant debate amongst the broader population. This is likely related to many
factors beyond science including economics, politics, the portrayal of the science
by the media, and the overall public’s scientiFc literacy. Gaining a better under
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standing of this issue is di³cult given the enormous wealth of information and
disparity in scientiFc literacy. This lab will explore this issue by examining climate
data as well as how we, as scientists or scientiFc minded citizens, make interpreta
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tions and conclusions regarding data, how it is presented, and how it relates to our
understanding of the world around us.
6.1.1 Learning Outcomes
After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
• Describe the climate system and how di²erent variables are related
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Climate Change
Bradley Deline

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Currents</h2><p> The water in the ocean is constantly moving. Ocean currents are
typically driven by surface wind and can have a huge impact on climate.
Northwest Europe is moderately temperate considering its latitude because the
Gulf Stream off of the eastern coast of the United States transports warm water
north to those areas. In fact, the Atlantic Ocean along the U.S. coast is much
warmer than the Pacific Ocean along the U.S. coast because of the warm water
transported in the Gulf Stream. In this visualization, a model created by NASA,
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