Use these websites, the internet, and your own critical evaluation skills to find reliable information about global climate change and the human activities that cause it:

• NASA: Global Climate Change: How Do We Know? https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/   
• U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program: Understand Climate Change  https://www.globalchange.gov/climate-change  
• Climate Change Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying – IPCC  https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-20210809-pr/

Then answer at least one of the questions below. Also, everyone  participating in this discussion should answer question (d). 

a. Explain the greenhouse effect in your own words. What is the connection between the greenhouse effect and climate change? Explain how at least two of your daily activities contribute to the greenhouse effect.

b. Describe at least three predicted effects of human-caused global climate change (there are many more). 

c. Explain whether the deduction that humans are causing most of today’s climate change is based on science or pseudoscience.  Include your references and defend your answer.

d. Read the Yale E360 interview/ article, How Can We Make People Care About Climate Change? at https://e360.yale.edu/features/how_can_we_make_people_care_about_climate_change.  Which of the five main psychological barriers resonates the most with you personally, with regard to climate change, and why?  How do you think it has affected your thoughts and behaviors?