Geography Question - Please help!!!

[Flowertop]

My DS has a homework question as follows: Draw a diagram to show how latitude is important to global warming

I am not looking for someone to do his homework but if you could point me in the right direction and explain roughly what is expected I would appreciate it as I am a little thick .
Thank you

I'm guessing that it has something to do with where the equator is - i.e. the hotter parts of the world are going to get even hotter? so maybe a diagram of the world with the equator drawn on and some relevant countries.
What year is DS in?

National Geographic? DD did something about global warming and the polar regions a while back and she used an issue from 2009 that had diagrams. Sorry, that's not very useful.

Some stuff here about polar regions, boring through the ice to find climate history, etc. I recall DD talking about ozone levels near the north pole, melting ice sheets and glaciers, rising sea levels in more temperate latitudes, worse hurricanes and other weather effects of having more water in the oceans.

Hi thanks so much for replying. He is in year 6.
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MA - that is a great website - thanks! I have saved to favourites.
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How old is your DS, flowertop?

I think the issue of global warming is that it is 'global', ie not restricted to one latitude. The importance of latitude is in relationship to where the sun is overhead (between the tropics), but that has nothing to do with how much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are in the atmosphere.

The atmospheres in the north and south hemispheres do not mix. I'm not sure if this means that the north will be, on average, warmer because of more anthropogenic factors in the north - with the knock on effects of changing winds. Either way, rising sea levels will affect both hemispheres more or less equally.

The one thing where latitude would be important is our own, and the potential reversal of the thermo-haline current (gulf stream). The other, obviously, would be the icecaps themselves.

ah - y6 bit beyond me! Best to listen to mathanxiety instead of me! oops!

Y6 - ignore me.

What has he been taught about a) latitude, and b) global warming?