Today, Atticus and I continued our discussion about sustainability which we began with our study of the importance of pollinators. Today's lesson introduced climate change and global warming. We read the introductory chapter of a book on global warming and took notes. We discussed that global warming is when the sun's energy gets trapped in the Earth's atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to heat up too much. We discussed that carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels causes this problem. We discussed and notated the negative effects of global warming. We ended with watching a short National Geographic video summarizing what global warming is, how it's caused, what the effects are, and things we can do to decrease it.