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{ Climate Change Contents } { All GSS Books } Adler, Jerry, with Hager, Mary, “Inside the Greenhouse: Heat Waves,” Newsweek, July 11, 1988, pp. 16-24. Ball, Philip, Desiging the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.  Barnum, Alex, “Global Warnings: Warmer Climates Predicted to Turn Delta Into Inland Sea,” […]

CLIMATE CHANGE addresses the controversial question of how human activities may be changing Earth’s climate. See Overview. Contents Chapter Titles Investigations Stay Current 1. The Greenhouse Effect 1.1 Light In Air1.2. Podcasts and Videos Chapter 1 2. What’s So Special About CO2? 2.1 Two Prisms2.2 IR TV Remote2.3 Molecules Absorb IR Energy2.4 Singing Piano Chapter […]

Staying current for Chapter 9 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } The Mysteries of the Cosmos – a panel discussion with astronomers Phil Plait, Mike Brown, Debra Fischer, Andrea Ghez, and Saul Perlmutter. Topics: newly discovered solar system objects; the black hole in our galaxy; expansion of our universe. 2024-06-22. Piping Up at the Gates of […]

Staying current for Chapter 8 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2008–present NASA’s Kepler mission (to find Earth size planets in the habitable zones of stars): see also PASS Kepler page, archive of Kepler News stories, and kepler.nasa.gov (Kepler education website).  For the Exoplanet Transits investigation, data to generate a light curves for various exoplanets: 2024-06-20. […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } See also articles from 2008–2020. Asteroid visualization (YouTube) – an animation of the solar system showing asteroid discoveries starting in 1980. Earth Crossers are Red. Earth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow. All Others are Green. Articles from 2021–present 2024-07-15. Yes, there are probably […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2006–present 2024-06-28. If Betelgeuse Explodes, Just How Bright Will It Get? By RHETT ALLAIN, Wired. Excerpt: Betelgeuse, …red supergiant has dimmed repeatedly in the past few years, which could mean that it’s ready to go full supernova quite soon—and by “soon” we […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2011–present 2011-05-25. NASA’s Kepler Yields the Next Harvest: A bounty of findings delivered at the 218th Meeting of the AAS in Boston. Kepler News. Excerpt: Soeren Meibom, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is studying the stars… in the Kepler field of view. There […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2009–present 2016-12-30. Astronomer Edwin Hubble announced the discovery of other galaxies beyond the Milky Way on this date in 1924. By Writer’s Almanac. Excerpt: …Before he made his discovery, everyone thought that our Milky Way galaxy was the only galaxy in the universe, and […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2005–present 2024-01-04. Mapping the Moon to Shield Astronauts from Radiation. [https://eos.org/articles/mapping-the-moon-to-shield-astronauts-from-radiation] By Sierra Bouchér, Eos/AGU. Excerpt: In October 1989, the Sun spit a blast of high-energy particles into the solar system. Earth’s protective magnetic field kept us safe, but the Moon received […]

Staying current for Chapter 2 { A Changing Cosmos Contents } Articles from 2009–present 2024-06-25. China Becomes First Country to Retrieve Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side. By Katrina Miller, The New York Times. Excerpt: China brought a capsule full of lunar soil from the far side of the moon down to Earth on Tuesday, […]