Climate Change, After the Storm

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This 3-activity sequence addresses the question: &amp;amp;quot;To what extent should coastal communities build or rebuild?&amp;amp;quot; The activity uses social science and geoscience data to prepare an evidence-based response to the question, in targeted US coastal communities.

HS-ESS3-5 Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence-based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.

Current models predict that, although future regional climate changes will be complex and varied, average global temperatures will continue to rise. The outcomes predicted by global climate models strongly depend on the amounts of human-generated greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere each year and by the ways in which these gases are absorbed by the ocean and biosphere.

Though the magnitudes of human impacts are greater than they have ever been, so too are human abilities to model, predict, and manage current and future impacts.

Cause and effect relationships can be suggested and predicted for complex natural and human designed systems by examining what is known about smaller scale mechanisms within the system.

Change and rates of change can be quantified and modeled over very short or very long periods of time. Some system changes are irreversible.

Climate Change, After the Storm

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