Episode 1: It's All About Carbon

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Causes of Climate Change 
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  *Episode 1: It's All About Carbon*

Listen to this story...
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[Correction: The on-air version of this story stated that energy is 
released when carbon-atom bonds are broken. To be more precise, energy 
is released after the bond is broken and carbon atoms grab on to other 
atoms.]
 
A Carbon Atom    <http://www.npr.org/news/specials/climate/video/>
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2007 · When the subject is global warming, our mood is usually "uh-oh."

Which makes sense, because a warmer Earth will lead to all kinds of 
disruptions and expensive adjustments that we could do without.
But there is another way to think about all of this.
What we have done here is a chemistry lesson, one that begins with the 
elemental cause of global warming: the behavior of the carbon atom.

First of all, carbon is everywhere.
Yes, most of you is water.
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Man at Bus Stop    

But a surprising part of the rest of you is carbon! This is you, without 
water:
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Carbon pile at bus stop.    

And this is the carbon atom:
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A Carbon Atom    

Since carbon atoms are rather small and since we're offering this lesson 
not on the radio, but right here, on this page, (it's right up there, on 
the left), we have turned our atom into a cartoon. Just so you can see 
it better.
 
This is the introductory segment of a five-part series that explains how 
carbon atoms form bonds, break apart and create the conditions that can 
lead to global warming. Since most of us are beginners when it comes to 
elemental chemistry, this is a lesson in five, easy-to-grasp steps. And 
grasping, by the way, is a big part of our story.
 
I know a lot of chemistry teachers may happen by, so let me say, right 
from the start that this is not even remotely hard science; this is a 
whet-your-appetite exercise that we hope will get lots and lots of 
people, especially people who don't rush to chemistry class, familiar 
with the root causes of our warming problem.
 
In this, the first lesson, we introduce our atom.  You may be surprised 
to know that you, the person reading this, are to a significant degree a 
carbon-based organism. So are your friends, your pets, your plants, and 
every living thing on Earth.
And there's a reason for that, which we get to in the next episode: 
/It's About Bonds./
 
So take a look. <http://www.npr.org/news/specials/climate/video/>


(Play videos from Robert Krulwich's five-part cartoon series, /Global 
Warming: It's All About Carbon./

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Chronicles/*)
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