Student Activities for Climate Impacts:
1. Given a list of potential risks of climate change, use climate model output and an understanding of basic drivers underlying the effects on the human system to assess climate change-related risks in your geographic area. Compare to risks in another geographic area.
2. Given the frequency of past extremes of flooding or heat in the past, assess how changes in mean sea level or temperature will affect these frequencies. (For example: your beach house, which is located 2 meters above sea level, has flooded three times in the past thirty years. Your neighbor’s house, which is located 1 meter above sea level, has flooded ten times in the past thirty years. Predict how a one-meter increase in sea level would affect your house and your neighbor’s house.)
3. Given a distribution of projected climate changes (e.g., temperature, sea level), assess the risk of specific socio-economic impacts, accounting for the uncertainty in the projected changes.
1. Given a list of potential risks of climate change, use climate model output and an understanding of basic drivers underlying the effects on the human system to assess climate change-related risks in your geographic area. Compare to risks in another geographic area.
2. Given the frequency of past extremes of flooding or heat in the past, assess how changes in mean sea level or temperature will affect these frequencies. (For example: your beach house, which is located 2 meters above sea level, has flooded three times in the past thirty years. Your neighbor’s house, which is located 1 meter above sea level, has flooded ten times in the past thirty years. Predict how a one-meter increase in sea level would affect your house and your neighbor’s house.)
3. Given a distribution of projected climate changes (e.g., temperature, sea level), assess the risk of specific socio-economic impacts, accounting for the uncertainty in the projected changes.