Date
|
Topic |
Reading
RG = Rough Guide
|
Quiz |
HW
Open/Due
|
1/5
|
Climate
Change
Primer
Survey Results
|
RG
p 3-19
|
|
Make-up
Survey
|
1/7
|
Who is Responsible?
|
RG
p 32-42
Copenhagen
Accord
2009
|
|
Make-up
Questions
(no more make-ups)
|
|
Sections
|
|
|
HW1
open 1/9 |
1/12
|
Radiation
in
the
Atmosphere
|
Ahrens
p
35-43
|
|
|
1/14
|
Causes
and
Consequences
of
Climate
Change |
RG
p 20-31
|
|
|
|
Sections
|
|
|
HW1
due
1/15
HW2
open
1/16 |
1/19
|
Heat waves, Floods, Droughts |
RG
p 45-74 |
#1
|
|
1/21
|
Droughts cont. and Ice
|
RG
p 75-105 |
|
|
|
Sections
|
|
|
HW2
due 1/22
HW3
open 1/23 |
1/26
|
Ice
cont. and Oceans
|
RG
p 106-127
polar
bear
listing (optional reading)
|
|
|
1/28
|
Ocean
and
ocean ecology
Summary of Oceans added
later
|
Carbon
Cycle
required
supplemental
reading
(read p307-308, skim 309, read 310-313 up to
the integrated carbon cycle)
RG p 147-162 (optional reading)
|
|
|
|
Sections
|
|
|
HW3
due 1/29
HW4
open 1/30 |
2/2
|
Carbon
Cycle
|
RG
p 128-146
|
#2
|
|
2/4
|
Storms continued,
World water and food
|
Battisti and Naylor on Food Security
RG p 162-168
|
|
|
|
Sections |
|
|
HW4
due 2/5
HW5
open 2/6 |
2/9
|
Modern
records |
RG
p 171-192 |
|
|
2/11
|
Paleoclimate
|
RG
p 193-226 |
|
|
|
Sections |
|
|
HW5
due 2/12
HW6
open 2/13 |
2/16
|
Paleoclimate continued
|
|
#3
|
|
2/18
|
Climate
Models
and
Future
Projections |
RG
p 227-244
US Climate Modeling Report Exec. Summary
full
report
available
on
line (optional reading)
|
|
|
|
Sections |
|
|
HW6
due 2/19
HW7
open 2/20 |
2/23
|
Uncertainty
|
IPCC 2007 Uncertainty Guide
|
|
|
2/25
|
Skeptics (now with links to videos and
one corrected slide)
correction to one slide alone
|
RG
p 247-277
Scientific
Consensus
|
|
|
|
Sections
|
|
|
HW7
due 2/26
HW8
open 2/27 |
3/2
|
Technical
Solutions
|
RG
p 278-285, 306-332
|
#4
|
|
3/4
|
Geoengineering
|
Can
Dr
Evil
Save
the
World?
20 Reasons why Geoengineering
may be bad
|
|
|
|
Sections |
|
|
HW8
due 3/5
HW9
open 3/5 |
3/9
|
Economics/Politics
|
RG
p 278-305 and reread about cost RG p 264-5
Cartoon
Introduction
to
Economics,
just the excerpt given there beginning with
Rule #3 (5 pages of cartoons), Climate
Pricing
Fact
Sheet
on Sightline (2 pages)
|
|
|
3/11
|
Politics/Economics
|
|
|
|
|
Sections
|
|
|
HW9
due 3/12 |
3/17
4:30-
6:20 |
Comprehensive
Final Exam |
|
|
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