WEEK
1: Introduction to Global Climate Change
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| Lecture 2: Three
global changes issues. Climate vs.
weather.
Forcings. |
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| Lecture 3:
More on global warming. Intro to atmospheric
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Lecture 4: Intro to ozone
depletion: A brief history of ozone and CFCs
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WEEK
2: Ozone Depletion
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Lecture 5: UV and
biology; Where ozone comes from.
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Lecture 6: Catalytic
destruction of ozone.
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Lecture 7: The ozone hole.
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Lecture 8: The ozone debate
and ozone misinformation
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| WEEK
3: Systems |
Lecture 9: Introduction to
systems
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Lecture 10: Daisyworld
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WEEK
4: Greenhouse effect
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Lecture 11: Daisyworld
debrief, Intro to greenhouse effect
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Lecture 12: Planets and
radiation
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Lecture 13: Planetary
energy balance; Atmos. structure recap
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Lecture 14: Greenhouse gases
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WEEK
5: Atmospheric and oceanic circulation
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Lecture 15: Introduction to
terminology; Hadley circulation
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Lecture 16: Tropical,
extratropical circulations
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| Lecture 17: Ocean currents
and circulations |
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Lecture 18: Gyres, boundary
currents, and the THC
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WEEK
6: Evolution of Earth's climate and atmosphere
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Lecture 19: Geological
timescale; Origin of Earth's atmosphere
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Lecture 20: More on origin
of the atmosphere; Geologic carbon cycle
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Lecture 21: Prebiotic
atmosphere; effect of life; oxygenation
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Lecture 22: Rise of oxygen
in the atmosphere
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WEEK
7: More ancient climate: Ice ages, volcanoes & solar variability
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Lecture 23: Recap on oxygen
history; Snowball Earth
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Lecture 24: Overview of
Mesozoic & Cenozoic climate. Intro to Pleistocene
glacial-interglacial cycles
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Lecture 25:
Glacial-interglacial cycles. Relevance to global warming.
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WEEK
8: Global warming science
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Lecture 26: Guest lecture: Evidence for
global warming (Prof. Richard Gammon)
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Summary for Policymakers
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Lecture 27: The
Millennial temperature record & proxy data
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Lecture 28: Climate
change caused by volcanoes and the Sun
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Lecture 29: The El
Nino Southern Oscillation
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| WEEK
9: Global warming debate |
| Lecture 30:
Human-perturbed carbon cycle |
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Lecture 31: Guest lecture: Aerosol forcing
and causal attribution of global warming (Prof. Tad Anderson)
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| Lecture 32: Projected
future global warming; sea-level rise |
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Lecture 33: Sea-level
rise continued; Global warming "skeptics"
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accompanied by a handout on global
warming "skeptics"
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WEEK
10: Global warming impacts and policy solutions
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Lecture 34: Guest lecture: Impacts in the
Pacific Northwest (Prof. Phil Mote - state climatologist for Washington
State)
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Lecture 35: Global warming impact on biology
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Lecture 36: Global warming solutions/policies (FINAL
LECTURE)
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Review sheet to help with revising for the
final.
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