Part II: Background of Global Climate Change
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Class 3 SCIENCE OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE Monday, June 30 |
DUE: EMISSIONS SOURCE ANALYSIS
For Emissions Source Analysis (prompt):
Complete Environmental Scorecard
Take Ecological Footprint Quiz
Determine Your Electricity Profile (from EPA)
Personal Carbon Counter
FILM: The Eleventh Hour (Part II)
Priority One Readings
CC (2007) Chapter 2, "A Primer on Global Climate Change and Its Likely Impacts," pp. 11-43.
CC (2007) Chapter 4, "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How do we Know We're Not Wrong," pp. 65-93.
CI (2007) Preface & Chapter 1, "Polar Bears: Today's Canaries in the Coal Mine?", pp. 3-9.
IPCC 4th Assessment (2007), Working Group I, The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, Summary, pp. 2-17.
Priority Two Readings
CI (2007) Chapter 2, "It's Getting Hotter," pp. 10-52.
IPCC 4th Assessment Report Summary, Union of Concerned Scientists
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Class 4 CLIMATE EFFECTS & IMPACTS Wednesday, July 2 |
VIDEO: Glacial Melt in Peru
VIDEO: Arctic Ice Abrupt Withdrawal (Present-2040) (30sec)
VIDEO: Arctic: Arctic Sea Ice loss 1979 to 2007 (1<m)
VIDEO: Kiribati Faces Doom from Rising Sea Levels (6m)
VIDEO: Bangladesh Environmental Refugees - Mohan's story (9m)
VIDEO: Climate Change and Oceans (31m)
VIDEO: CORAL REEFS: In Hot Water (10m)
FILM: An Inconvenient Truth
Priority One Readings
CC (2007) Chapter 3, "Climate Change Effects: Global and Local Views," pp. 45-64.
IPCC 4th Assessment (2007), Working Group II, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Summary, pp. 8-20.
IPCC 4th Assessment (2007), Working Group III, The Mitigation of Climate Change, Summary, pp. 3-22.
Mark Lynas, "Peru's Melting Point," High Tide: The Truth About our Climate Crisis," pp. 199-252.
Stern Report, "How Climate Change will Affect People Around the World," pp. 56-84.
Priority Two Readings
Pielke, et al (2008) “Dangerous Assumptions (of IPCC 2007),” Nature 45:2/3.
CI (2007) Chapter 3, "Global Warming: Our Many Worries," pp. 53-112.
Epoch Times, "Inuit Culture, Frozen in Time, Now Melting Away", Aug 18-25, 2005.
Nature Magazine (2005). Hurricane Intensity and Global Warming
"The Sinking of Tuvalu," Feb. 13, 2005 (with pictures)
"Uncertainty Grips the Arctic: Climate Change Impacting Northern Ecosystems", Aug 27, 2005.
Leslie Joesephs, February 16, 2007, "Peru's Montain Glaciers are Melting Away: Area has Shrunk 22 % since 1970." MSNBC