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Monday’s Class : Climate Change: The Science
Before Class:
- Finish PS#4
- See this video about what causes climate changes CC Causes
- See the Effects of CC … Can you distinguish climate change from the ozone hole UV problems? and CC Slides, also see the Slide of GHG Sources
- Effects of CC are first physical, and then biological… in one extreme example: no male sea turtles?
- Please read the GHG part of Arrhenius biography
- If you want more information about radiative forcing, see this NOAA document.
- NPR: 2016 was the hottest year yet. and 2017 was the 3rd hottest.
- Massive die off of endangered antelope… by climate change? – spoiler: photo of cute baby.
- WOW! Please read… no one knows how severe tundra-methane feedback could be. It could radically change the earth in our time.
- Deadly diseases?… more death from the permafrost?
- Check out our dear state of California on the EIA website. At the very top above the word “California”, you can click on “US States” and check out West Virginia.
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Wednesday’s Class: Climate Change, the Policy and Politics.
Before Class
- Please finish PS #4 if you hadn’t already. Please hand it in today.
- Please see Social Change
- Please see the video Response to CC Also see Slides about Human Response
- Please look up and understand what the Anthropocene Epoch is.
- While you read about the Kübler-Ross model, please ponder why I’d have you read this while studying human response to climate change.
- Please see this very short video from around 2006 CEI CO2 is life, by the Competitive Enterprise Institute , It’s interesting to note that last year, Trump chose the leader of CEI, Myron Bell, to lead the EPA transition team .
- ….And should our present top federal environmental counselor also think that CO2 is life? – note that this is from this week.
- Please see Science Guy Denial
- CC Policy
- We can speculate why Trump wanted the names of scientists working on climate change, but this isn’t the first time that there has been a Ban on talking about CC
- Please look at Jones Kammen paper for problem set, see Fig. 2.
- California has not been acting as a regular state. On some levels, California has lead or been in direct opposition to Washington DC. Jerry Brown has brought this to a head with respect to Climate Change and Immigration: read CNN.
- This is not new. A decade ago, REPUBLICAN Arnold Schwarzenegger initiated “international” climate change mitigation talks with UK’s Tony Blair saying that President George W. Bush was “late to the after party party”
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Friday’s activity: I’ll see you all at 2:00. We will have class (see below). After Taylor comes at 3:00, we will walk to the student experimental farm via a short visit to see Greg Schwartz’s Fish Lab. Please come in something that comfortable to walk in. The walk is probably a half mile. If you need to drive, I understand.
Friday:
Before Class
- Please see Story of Stuff
- Please see Pete’s Energy Experiments at Home
- This article describes how the cost of climate change is more than what has been already calculated because the impact will be much greater on the days of greatest strain on the electrical system.
- NPR article about Environmental Impact of Food Choices and the calculated figures that compare different foods.
- Please read my letter to SLO commissioners regarding Phillips 66 Oil Train Proposal. Our officials rejected Phillips 66 proposal to build a rail spur that would bring oil trains to their refinery – through San Luis Obispo, by Cal Poly.
- Read about how Bitcoins are destroying the environment.
- Please read: Faced with the US retreat on Climate Change, Europe looks to China for leadership.
- The Pope, Politicians, and Business Interests
- The Daily Show attempted to explain some of the political issues in a language and humor common to the public.
- Environmental Justice: Who benefits most from carbon dioxide production? Who bears the burden most? Poor Countries Demand Payment
- Please check out the graph in this article showing how the price of Natural Gas has changed wildly over the past 20 years, and in particular what effect fracking has had.
- Happiness and resource use. Please see this excellent (in my opinion) article in NPR that explicitly weighs these two issues.
During Class
- Hand in MT #1 corrections.
After Class
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