Climate 2020 - preclass assignments

very optional: ‎www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/acpd-15-20059-2015.pdf This is the original article by Hansen et al. It's very hard reading (but worth the effort) so if anyone wants to read it, let me know and I will give you some recommendations on how to read, understand & to a large extent skip all the science modeling & mathematics.

November 2

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2020-10-13/world-burns

Maine may be the BEST state in the US for dealing with covid & keeping the state's economy open. They don't mention the social pressures of friends & neighbors when a group flouts science, ↑ covid19 infections→ change from green to yellow → ↑ kids stay home from school & don't have sports, etc. A lot of unhappy people scrambling. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-straight-talk-helped-one-state-control-covid/

excellent overall assessment: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability/our-insights/climate-risk-and-response-physical-hazards-and-socioeconomic-impacts?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck&hdpid=31f8d806-b0e5-4efa-bf44-78b8a29720f7&hctky=11795620&hlkid=ac8af93f09b746d095e6016af8da23c9#

optional: https://climatechange.umaine.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/439/2020/02/Maines-Climate-Future-2020-Update-3.pdf optional but the best [and very detailed] information on Maine:

https://econofact.org/would-a-carbon-tax-hurt-the-poor-and-the-middle-class-video

The most uplifting and hence the best book on climate that I have ever read: 2015, Bloomberg & Pope, Climate of Hope

For the masochists [I could only handle this in measured doses] but it accurately presents good science: 2019, Davis Wallace-Wells The Uninhabitable Earth, Life after Warming. The first 2/3s is the better than the last [which I mostly skipped].