The Basics You Need
Climate Models — How Do We Know What Happens in 2100?
Prerequisites: what a model is, radiation balance, greenhouse effect. Anchor: Boston in 2050 introduced.
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6 pagesLesson 3 — The Basics You Need
Understanding the Complex: Climate Models — How Do We Know What Happens in 2100?
If you already know the difference between weather and climate, what greenhouse gases do, and what "radiative forcing" means, skim this lesson. The concepts will come up again in Lessons 4–6.
For everyone else: this lesson gives you four concepts and one anchor example. That's it. No history of atmospheric science, no complete thermodynamics course. Just what the next three lessons need.