Assessment
Block 1: Climate and Agents of Global Change
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"Today the scale of our interventions in nature is increasing and the physical effects of our decisions spill across national frontiers. The growth in economic interaction between nations amplifies the wider consequences of national decisions. Economics and ecology bind us in ever tightening networks. Today many regions face risks of irreversible damage to the human environment that threaten the basis for human progress."
Our Common Future
The World Commission on
Environment and Development 1987
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Required Reading
Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander
N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, 1996: Climate
Change
1995. The Science of Climate Change. Cambridge University
Press, pp 55-57.
Subcategories of Global Change The United
States Global Change Research Program
(USGCRP) 1993 Report on
the U.S. Global Change Research
Program An introduction to the science
of man-made climate change (From the
United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP)
Recommended Reading
Bloom, David E., 1995:
International public opinion on the
environment. Science, Vol. 269: 354-358. UNEP Climate Change Fact
Sheets
References
Bruce, J., H. Lee, and E. Haites,
1996: Climate Change 1995:
Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change (IPCC Working
Group I Report). Cambridge University Press . Houghton, J. T. et al., eds., 1996:
Climate Change 1995:
The Science of Climate Change (IPCC Working Group
I Report). Cambridge University Press . The Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change home page Watson, R.T., M. C. Zinyowera, and R.
H. Moss: 1996:
Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of
Climate Change (IPCC Working Group I Report).
Cambridge University Press .
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You must complete the assignments BEFORE the next lecture (Evolution of
the
Earth's atmosphere), after the Evolution of the
Earth's atmosphere lecture they will be unavailable!
Answer the following question:
Why did you choose to take this course?
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to obtain the assignment page. Re-acquaint yourself with your knowledge of
world geography by visiting
the Virtual Tourist - City.Net
World Map which provides general information on many world regions,
countries and cities. Link to the
Sensitive Map of World Climate Regions from the Department of
Geography, University of
South Carolina. Your task is to report on the similarities/differences
of temperature
and precipitation of at least two world cities. An ideal comparison
would include cities
with the same longitude or latitude (northern hemisphere, southern
hemisphere or both).
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assignment page. Participate in informal Internet discussion
on
the topic Overview of Global
Change. See Electronic
Dialog discussion requirements for information on required submissions.
Check your understanding
via ClassNet.
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list.
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