Is the Climate Changing?

Readings

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)
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"

 

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)

Last Updated Monday, March 4, 2002

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