Mapping the IPCC Report onto the Curriculum: Land-Water

Higher temperature dries land surfaces, moving water to the atmosphere, and moves frozen water from storage on land as glaciers into the ocean.

IPCC Summary for Policymakers (SPM) content

A.1.5 Human influence is very likely the main driver of the global retreat of glaciers since the 1990s
B.2.5 Additional warming is projected to further amplify permafrost thawing, and loss of seasonal snow cover, of land ice and of Arctic sea ice
B.3.2 A warmer climate will intensify very wet and very dry weather and climate events and seasons, with implications for flooding or drought

Science Standards: NGSS SEP, DCI, CC

SEP: Analyzing & interpreting data

SEP: Developing & using models

LS2.B Cycles of matter & energy transfer

ESS2.C The roles of water in Earth processes

ESS2.D Weather & climate

ESS3.D Global climate change

CC: Energy & matter

CC: Scale, proportion & quantity

PRI Climate Resources

Climate Toolkit: Watershed Comparisons (2.06 MB)