1.1.1 Introduction to Climate Science & Climate Change

1.1.2 Video: What is Climate? Climate Change Lines of Evidence: Chapter 1

This video helps summarize what is known about climate and climate change. This is part one of a seven-part series by the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences.  

1.1.3 Video: The Earth's Energy Balance

Earth's energy balance will enable you to understand radiative equilibrium. You will also be able to recognize that the temperature of earth depends on the amount of solar energy that it absorbs.  

1.2.1 Causes of Climate Change

1.2.2 Video: Steroids, Baseball, and Climate Change

This is an animated short with a good illustration of how weather and climate differ, and how climate is a statistical description of weather. AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system. Statistics and extreme behavior are involved, whether we're talking about baseball or Earth's atmosphere. https://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/attribution/steroids-baseball-climate-change.

1.2.3 Video: The Carbon Cycle: Where Does Atmospheric Carbon Come From?

NSF video that addresses the question, "Where does the carbon in the atmosphere come from?

1.3.1 Climate Intensification: Floods & Droughts

1.3.2 Case Examples

An extensive image library of case examples can be found here at: BCC 1.3. Climate Intensification: Floods and Droughts. Part 2, Case Examples

1.3.3 Video: Towers in the Tempest

Hurricane intensification can be caused by phenomenon called 'hot towers', which form as air spirals inward towards the eye and is forced rapidly upwards, accelerating the movement of energy into high altitude clouds.   

1.3.4 Video: Will the Wet Get Wetter and the Dry Drier?

With the help of computer model simulations this NOAA video describes climate intensification and its causes.  

1.4.1 Climate Modeling

1.4.2 Video: Taking Earth's Temperature

This NOAA video describes grid resolution of climate models.   

1.4.3 Video: How Do We Know? Reducing Greenhouse Gases

 NSF video on how climate models are refined and validated.