Day 5 – 24 January

News

Ventusky Weather Site – graphic display of global wind and weather

When scientists tagged a curious seal, he led them to signs of a potential climate disaster

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test Is a Smashing Success

Climate change fiction

If you have read any of these or watched the movies, please speak up in class! Email me if you have others to add to the list.

The Ministery for the Future – Rolling Stone interview with the author – Bill Gates review

Termination Shock – Author interview – Slate review

The Deluge (just published) – Author interview – Times review

Climate change movies and documentaries

Assignment

Day 5 Slides

NASA – The Carbon Cycle

Last class, we looked at the IPCC projections of how much the climate might change with different emissions scenarios. In this class we are going to look at the potential impacts of those changes. This is a 34-page summary for policymakers (non-scientists and lawyers) of the major report on climate as of 2022. Read through it to get. This is a link to the full report. Download it and browse through it to get a sense of the overall scope of the work in the reports.

IPCC, 2022: Summary for Policymakers [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, M. Tignor, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem (eds.)]. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.