Atmospheric Sciences 111 - winter 2010
Global Warming
http://www.
atmos.washington.edu/2010Q1/111/schedule.html

This schedule will be updated throughout the course. Please check it often.
A pdf of the lecture slides will be posted under the link in the topic column shortly after the lecture.

Homework and some readings are given on the our separate Moodle Homework Web Site. You will need an enrollment key given in class.
Instructions to Register your Clicker for this class.

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