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Assignments are Tentative
IPCC Summary for Policymakers, 2007
Readings from Ruddiman (2001), Earth's Climate, Past and Future
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Climate Change
2007: The Scientific Basis
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Date
Topic
Readings
M 1/28
Introduction, Overview of Climate System, Climate Change
2-17
W 1/30
Review of Earth's Climate System , IPCC Summary
images18-39, IPCC link, above
M 2/4
Earth's climate system today Ch 2 images
39-46
W 2/6
Biosphere today, Climate Archives
Begin Ex. 1,47-52, 54-64
M 2/11 Climate Proxies, Geomorphic Records Ch3 images 64-71 W 2/13 Dating Climate Records, handout 59-67 M 2/18 President's Day, no classes W 2/20 Climate Models, GCMs, images (Ex. 1 due 2/20) 71-82 M 2/25 Tectonic scale climate change, CO2 87-93 W 2/27 Weathering and CO2, Gaia hypothesis, Review
93-102 M 3/3 First Midterm
W 3/5 Plate tectonics and climate
103-127
M 3/10 Greenhouse Earth, Images 130-143 W 3/12 Milankovich orbital parameters 175- 189 M 3/17 Orbital scale interactions, Images 255-262 W 3/19 Orbital scale interactions, Images
255-262
Mar 24-31 Spring Break, Chavez Day, no classes
W 4/2 Ice sheets & 100 k yr cycle Images 263-272 M 4/7 Wisconsinan glaciation, Last Glacial Maximum 277-292 W 4/9 Deglaciation, Younger Dryas 302-312 M 4/14 Second Midterm W 4/16 Holocene record, Future orbital change, AAG (Ex. 2) 313-328 M 4/21 Historical climate changes 355-370 W 4/23 Recent climate changes 370-381 M 4/28 Humans and climate change (Ex. 2 due) 384-395 W 4/30 Late 20th-early 21st century 396-408 M 5/5 Effects on Biosphere 408-421 W 5/7 Climate change in the next 1000 yrs
IPCC Summary for Policy Makers reprise424-440
W 5/9 IPCC Summary for Policy Makers WG 1, 07 link at top of page M 5/12
W 5/14
IPCC Summary for Policy Makers WG II, 07
Discussion of assigned readings for final take home essay
link at top of page
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