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Questions: Review the website and, as described in assignment 1, use screen capture as needed to identify the following information:

1. "Milestones in Climate Science" timeline. Identify (by placing a box or a bubble around, or use Canvas tools to annotate) the author's included in this week's reading (all can be found except for Bill McKibben, who you can ignore for this task).
2. Take a screen shot of Fourier, Tyndall, and Arrhenius. Describe the papers they wrote (or their significant research) and identify the year they wrote this.
3. Identify who disputed the published work of Arrhenius (almost immediately) and describe whether the criticism was warranted. What transpired in the debate?
4. Describe what happened post 1945 that allowed Climate Change Research to advance?
5. Who was Gilbert Plass? What did he say that was important? When did he say it?
6. What is the difference between Carbon 14 and Carbon 12? Why is this important in the discussion of Climate Change?
7. Identify who pointed out "human beings are carrying out a large-scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past or be reproduced in the future". What research did this scientist conduct and why was it important?
8. What did Charles Keeling do that was significant and why is this important in the Climate Change discussion?
9. Who developed the first computer model simulating the planet's climate. What significant observation did this modeling make?
10. Describe why ice cores are important to Climate Change research. What do the ice cores show?
11. Who opposes Climate Science and Why? What tactics to they take.
12. Summary and Conclusions. What did you learn?