So What's Up with this Climate Change Stuff

NASA has been an import source of  research and  probing, investigating and asking questions about both  Earth and our relationship to other planetary objects,which has provided an abundance of evidence of climate change. NASA is responsible for the many satellites constantly traveling overhead recording both incoming and outgoing radiation, as well as measuring greenhouse gases. As stated in the short video, solar activities are an activity that can have changing impacts on the incoming radiation levels, but these are not the cause of this increase (we are currently in the hottest decade in recorded time) because it has been a decade of low solar activity. When I have taught lessons about climate change in the past I have found that students have a tough time conceptualizing albedo or the reflective quality of different surfaces. It is not a black and white issue. I think one of the scariest parts of this whole issue is the idea that when ice is lost and turns to water we go from a white very reflective substance to a dark absorbent substance.  And then there are clouds which are reflective, but are composed of water vapor (which is a major greenhouse gas).  So I guess I am not surprised that students have issues with these understandings. The vast amount of evidence continues to indicate that climate change is real and it has been caused by us.