Course Materials

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Lectures

6/18: Lecture 1 slides -- (Overview)
6/19: Lecture 2 (continuation of L1) slides -- (Overview)
6/20: Lecture 3 slides, including Albedo lyrics -- (Global Warming Primer)
6/21: Lecture 4 slides -- (Greenhouse gases, start Forcings)
6/25: Lecture 5 slides -- (Climate Forcings)
6/26: Lecture 6 slides -- (Climate Feedbacks)
6/27: Lecture 7 slides -- (Who's Responsible?)
6/28: Lecture 8 slides -- (Extreme Heat)
7/2: Lecture 9 slides -- (Floods & Droughts)
7/3: Lecture 10 slides -- (Finish F&D, start Ice & Snow)
7/5: Lecture 11 slides -- (Ice & Snow)
7/9: Lecture 12 slides -- (Oceans)
7/10: Lecture 13 (continuation of L12) slides -- (Oceans)
7/11: Lecture 14 (short lecture / quiz) slides -- (Hurricanes)
7/12: Lecture 15 (continuation of L14) slides -- (Hurricanes)
7/16: Lecture 16 slides -- (Impacts on Agriculture)
7/17: Lecture 17 slides -- (PNW Impacts)
7/17-7/18: Lecture 17-18 slides -- (Impacts on Ecosystems)
7/18-7/19: Lecture 18-19 slides -- (Climate Records)
7/23: Lecture 20 (quiz review / short lecture) slides -- (very beginning of Paleoclimate)
7/24: Lecture 21 slides -- (Paleoclimate)
7/25: Lecture 22 (short lecture / quiz) slides -- (brief Alternative Energy preview)
7/27: Lecture 23 (Field trip debrief / short lecture) slides -- (Paleoclimate)
7/30: Lecture 24 slides -- (Paleoclimate)
7/31: Lecture 25 slides -- (Paleoclimate / Climate models)
8/1: Lecture 26 slides -- (Climate Models)
8/2: Lecture 27 slides -- (Climate Models)
8/6: Lecture 28 / discussion with Mike Warner slides -- (Skeptics' arguments)
8/7: Lecture 29 slides -- (The Debate)
8/8: Lecture 30 slides -- (The Debate / The Predicament)
8/9: Lecture 31 slides -- (The Predicament / Alternative Energies)
8/10: Lecture 32 slides -- (Alternative Energies)
8/14: Lecture 33 slides -- (Political Solutions)
8/15: Lecture 34 slides -- (Political Solutions)
8/16: Lecture 35 slides -- (Geoengineering)

Homework

HW 1 and solutions
HW 2 and solutions
HW 3 and solutions
HW 4 and solutions
Field trip make-up assignment
HW 5 and solutions

Final Exam Review sheet

Activities (typically each Friday)

6/22: Fun with IR thermometers activity and slides
6/29: Finish Extreme Heat, Skeptic's arguments slides
7/6: Finish Ice & Snow, and Trivia game (Quiz review) slides
7/13: Polar Bears and Tipping Points discussion, plus Feedback lyrics by Dargan Frierson. slides
7/20: Review ocean circulation slides. Quiz 2 review: Blank worksheet and answer key
7/26: Field trip to Wild Horse Wind Farm photos
8/3: "The Conversion of a Climate Change Skeptic" NYT Article (7/28/2012) and worksheet. General discussion worksheet
8/13 (Mon): Stabilization Wedges handout and activity worksheet

Additional Reading

Battisti and Naylor, Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity With Unprecedented Seasonal Heat. Science, 2009 (pdf) (required)
Pacala and Socolow, Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problemfor the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies Science, 2004 (pdf) (suggested)

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