| Schedule: |
Leaders |
| Jan 14 Causes: Scientific Basis for
Global Warming |
Tiffany, Jim |
- The Global Atmosphere from Global Environmental Change:
An Atmospheric Perspective (1997) by John Horel and Jack Geisler
- The Greenhouse Effect from Global Warming: The Complete
Briefing (1997) by John Houghton
- Climates of the Past from Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
(1997) by John Houghton
- The Natural Variability of the Earth-Atmosphere System from
Global Environmental Change: An Atmospheric Perspective (1997)
by John Horel and Jack Geisler
- IPCC WG1Third Assesment Report - Summary for Policymakers by IPCC
, John Houghton, ed. (February, 2001) (also available online as a pdf
file - download here)
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| Jan 28 Fossil Fuels and the Politics
of Climate Change |
Joe, Kim |
- The Changing Climate of Business from The Heat is On
(1997) by Ross Gelbspan
- Climate Change and the Bonn Agreement: Questions and Answers from
the IEA (August, 2001) by International Energy Agency (also available
online as a pdf file - download
here)
- How Economists have Misjudged Global Warming from World
Watch (2001) by Robert Ayres
- Misc. recent articles from the Environmental News Network
Optional:
- Annals of Science: Ice Memory from The New Yorker (2002) by Elizabeth
Kolbert (online
article)
- Live online Discussion
with Seth Dunn at the Worldwatch Institure on Moving the Climate
Change Agenda Forward - Friday January 25th from 9-10 AM
|
| Feb 11 Effects (PNW Focus) |
Lindsey, Tiffany |
- Wildlife on the Hot Seat from National Wildlife (Aug/Sept
2000) by Sharon Levy
- Wounded Air/What's Coming Down? from Over our Heads
(1997) by John Ryan
- Climate Change and Washington from - EPA report (about the
effects in the PNW) (September, 1997) (also available online
in html or as a pdf file - download
here)
- PCC WG 2 Third Assesment Report Summary for Policymakers:
Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (February, 2001) (also available
online as a pdf file - download
here)
- Packet of misc.short articles on specific effects of warming from
a variety of recent news sources
|
| Feb 25 Ozone the other big
atmospheric issue |
Kelly, Shawn |
- Learning from the Ozone Experience from State of the World
1997 (1997) by Hillary French
- Modeling the Climate from Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
(1997) by John Houghton
- Packet of misc.short articles on ozone from a variety of recent news
sources
Guest Speaker (2nd hour): Mark Baldwin (NW Research Associates) on"
Modeling the Stratosphere"
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| Mar 11 Alternatives and Solutions |
Heather, Lisa, Andrea |
- The Energy We Overlook fromWorldwatch (Nov/Dec 2001)
by Robert Ayres
- Blowing Smoke from The Economist (Feb. 16, 2002) by
staff writers
- PCC WG3 Third Assesment Report Summary for Policymakers:
Mitigation (February, 2001) (also available online as a pdf file
- download here)
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