Files / Materials
Course Logistics
UMass Conference / Climate Change Survey
- UMass U-Grad Research Conference (25 April 2014)
- Climate Change Questionnaire Spring 2014
- Climate Change - The State of the Science
- Yale Survey (November 2013)
- UMass Conference Abstracts (2012)
- UMass Conference Abstract Guidelines
- Writing a Conference Abstract
- 4 + 19 Questions!
- 4 + 20 Question, sorted into categories
- Climate Change Survey Groups and Logistics
- Using Google Forms for Surveys
- Conference Abstracts
- The 6 Americas Profiles (explained)
- The 6 Americas Results
- The Survey!
- The Survey Results!
Climate Change Solutions
- Hoffman (2012): Climate Science as Culture War
- Paths to a 'Good' Anthropocene (50:00 minute, YouTube)
- Stabilization Wedges (Princeton University)
- Enhanced Geothermal Systems
- Flat, Hot, Crowded
- Carbon Tax and 100 Percent Dividend
- Cap and Refund
Climate Change Economics
- Nicholas Stern Interview 1 (9:59 minute video)
- Nicholas Stern Interview 2 (26:59 minute video)
- Improve economic models of climate change (Nature, 10 April 2014)
- See For Yourself! (Simple Economic Model from Yale University)
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
- MIT CCS
- Learning to Live With Fossil Fuels (Sarewitz and Pielke, 24 April 2014)
- CCS: Panacea or Pipe Dream? (Huffington Post, 10 September 2013)
- Scott et al. (Nature Climate Change, February 2013)
- Baeckstrand et al. (Gobal Environmental Change, 2011, volume 21)
- Carbon Capture and Storage (8:01 minute video, energyNOW!)
- The Future of Coal (7:08 minute video, energyNOW!)
Mitigation
- IPCC AR5 WG III: Mitigation of Climate Change
- Global CO2 emissions by country
- EPA Large Facilities CO2 emissions
- CARMA (CO2 emissions from power plants worldwide)
Climate Change Impacts in New England
The IPCC / National Academy of Sciences
- Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis
- Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
- Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change
- State of the science (Nature CC, December 2013)
- NAS: Climate Change Evidence and Causes
Climate Change Impacts
- AAAS: What We Know
- NAS: Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change
- Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change (4:15 minute video)
- Climate Impacts FAQ (via Dot Earth)
- The inevitability of sea level rise (from RealClimate)
- The Science behind Rising Seas (GlobalPost, 9 March 2014)
- Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities (NOAA)
- Climate Impacts on US Winter Tourism (NRDC)
Climate Prediction and Modeling
- Climate Models Overview
- Climate Models CliffsNotes
- The Climate Machine (Nature, 25 February 2010)
- How reliable are climate models? (IPCC AR4 WGI)
- Climate models at their limit? (Nature, 14 June 2012)
- Emissions Scenarios
- Emissions scenarios (graph)
- Climate models are wrong and valuable (Gavin Schmidt, 12:10 minute YouTube)
The Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age
- Overview: MWP and LIA
- Encyclopedia Britannica: Medieval Warm Period
- Encyclopedia Britannica: Little Ice Age
- Why did the Vikings abandon Greenland?
- Vikings During the Medieval Warm Period
- The End of the Vikings in Greenland
- Norse Settlement and the Decline of Greenland
Holocene Climate
- Marcott et al. (2013)
- Oregon State press release (7 March 2013)
- New York Times article (7 March 2013)
- Dot Earth Blog (7 March 2013)
- Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (31 March 2013)
Ice Ages
- What Triggers Ice Ages? Website or PDF
- The Ice Age (9:55 minutes YouTube video)
- CO2 & the Atmosphere (9:05 minutes YouTube video)
- What Caused the Ice Ages... (PDF)
- Ice Age (Wikipedia)
- A framework for the Ice Ages
Feedbacks
- Climate feedbacks (UK Met Office)
- Hot Times in Alaska (Scientific American Frontiers, PBS)
- Ice albedo feedback (0:50 minutes, NASA)
- Why is the ice sheet melting? (4:33 minutes, Dartmouth University)
Ice Cores
Paleoclimatology: The Ice Core Record (by NASA)
- Paleoclimatology: The Oxygen Balance (by NASA)
- Ice Core 101 (UMaine)
- Stories in the Ice (NOVA)
- CO2 in the ice core record (3:01 minutes by Richard Alley)
- Inside an Antarctic time machine (9:45 minutes, TED.com)
- EPICA Dome C 800,000 year CO2 data
Paleoclimate / Proxy Records
- Bradley (2011) Natural Archives, changing climates
- NOAA Introduction to Paleoclimatology
- NOAA Introduction to Proxies
- NASA Paleoclimatology: Introduction
- Proxy record data sheet
The Instrumental Record
- NASA: 1880 to 2011 Spatial Patterns
- The Case of the Missing Heat (Nature 16 January 2014)
- Why did climate cool in the mid-20th Century? (Skeptical Science)
- Smith et al. (2011) Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850-2005
- Vogel and Lazar: Global Cooling: Science and Myth (Weatherwise, 2010)
- Peterson et al.: The Myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus (BAMS, 2008)
- What's in a Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change (NASA)
Ozone and Radiative Forcing
- David Doniger (2012) The world's governments saved the ozone layer. They can save climate too.
- Solomon and Chanin (2011) The Antarctic Ozone Hole: A Unique Example of the Science and Policy Interface.
- EPA Ozone Information
- NASA The Good, the Bad and the Ozone
- NOAA Ozone Basics
Climate System Basics / Greenhouse Effect / Radiative Forcing
- Review Material (online textbooks, websites, and animations)
- Climate System Basics (seasons, etc.)
- Radiative Forcing
- The Greenhouse Effect (interactive visualization)
The Role of Science
- The Social Science Explaining Why More Climate Science Hasn’t Led to Greenhouse Action (Dot Earth)
- Andy Revkin at 2013 Seattle Science Festival (YouTube, 15:56 minutes)
- Michael Mann: If You See Something, Say Something. NYT Sunday Review Opinion, 17 January 2014.
- Gavin Schmidt: What should a climate scientist advocate for? (56:11 minutes)
- Gavin Schmidt...Speaking up and speaking out (Yale Climate Connections, 12 December 2013)
- Salad with a Scientist feat. Gavin Schmidt (4:55 minute, YouTube)
- Naomi Oreskes: Earth science: How plate tectonics clicked. Nature, 4 September 2013.
- Naomi Oreskes: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change. Science, 3 December 2004.
- Naomi Oreskes: The American Denial of Global Warming (58:36 minutes)
- Dan Kahan: Fixing the communications failure. Nature, 21 January 2010.
- Katharine Hayhoe: Climate Scientist and Evangelical Christian (8:07 minutes)
Nuclear Energy
- Does the world need nuclear energy? (TED Talk, 22:57 minutes)
- James Hansen on Nuclear Power (YouTube, 9:57 minutes)
- Nuclear Power (Union of Concerned Scientist)
- A US nuclear future? (Nature, 23 September 2010)
- Fuel and waste no bar to US nuclear growth (Nature, 23 September 2010)
- Is Nuclear Power the Answer? (NYT Room for Debate, 14 November 2013)
- To Those Influencing Environmental Policy But Opposed to Nuclear Power (Dot Earth, 3 November 2013)
Population Growth, The Tragedy of the Commons
- Garrett Hardin: The Tragedy of the Commons. Science, 13 December 1968.
- Hans Rosling: Population growth and climate change (YouTube, 3:19 minutes)
- David Susuki: Overpopulation (YouTube, 3:26 minutes)
- Joel Cohen: Malthus Miffed - Are People the Problem, the Solution, or Both? (YouTube, 43:21 minutes)
- Greg Craven: The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See (YouTube, 9:34 minutes)
- Greg Craven: How It All Ends (YouTube, 9:58 minutes)
The Winter of 2013/2014