Moodle Attendance
There are three options to choose for attendance status: present, corrected, and absent. Moodle auto-populated the point allocation for each, giving “present” 2 points, “corrected” 1 point, and “absent” 0 points.
As the “corrected” status is merely used for administrative purposes, and functionally serves the same purpose as “present,” the point allocations for both “present” and “corrected” have been set to 1.
News
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Assignment
We will finish our discussion of the IPCC report from the last class. Be sure you have read the report. I have updated the slides: Day 6 – revised
We conclude our discussion of the potential impacts of climate change. The next section is a look at mitigation – what needs to change to limit GHG emissions. We may not get to this material until next class.
This is the official strategy of the Biden administration. Read through Chapter 4, which ends on page 34. It’s written for laymen and is fast reading. We will discuss this in class. Look at the graphs and try to understand what the graph is showing. Try to get through by Tuesday.
Watch this video. It is a panel of some of the leading experts on the legal pathways to reducing GHGs. We will also discuss this in class.
Slides – Pathways to deep decarbonization in the United States