The periodical New Scientist has an excellent section on climate change on its website. Some of the articles would provide a good overview for high school and undergraduate students, while some of the more advanced materials would be appropriate for graduate students. There is an RSS feed option also.
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UNEP recently released a new analysis (10 pages) this week of what additional steps States need to take to meet the Copenhagen Accord goal of avoiding a temperature increase of 2C above Pre-Industrial levels. It provides some interesting insights also as to temporal considerations in climate policy making. Among the important take-aways of the report: [...]
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Climate Patriots is a short video that provides a military perspective on energy, climate change and American national security. The Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate conducted a series of interviews with former military leaders to discuss the challenges posed to the U.S. armed forces due to the impacts of climate change and [...]
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There are, of course, many reviews of COP15 that one can assign to students, including a number that have been reviewed recently on the blog. However, one of the best ones I’ve reviewed to date is: Benito Mueller, Copenhagen 2009: Failure or Final Wake-Up Call for Our Leaders?, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Feb. 2010. Mueller [...]
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For instructors in climate change courses that like to include multi-media presentations in their lectures or readings, I would suggest checking out Climate-Change.tv. The focus of the site is interviews with policymakers, academics and members of the NGO community on issues associated with international climate change negotiations and climate science, including the COPs, the Ad-Hoc [...]
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While most of the analyses of the Copenhagen Accord to date have focused on its mitigation provisions, its adapatation provisions could also be critical given projected temperature increases this century of 2-4C. Linda Siegle of the Foundation for International Environmental Law & Development (FIELD) has prepared an excellent briefing note (5 pages) on the subject, Adaptation [...]
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FYI, for those who use videos in class. Dear Colleagues, We invite you to view this short video http://bit.ly/aKJchj on Grenada, highlighting the impacts of climate change and recent hurricane devastation on the island’s development. The production is a product of the United Nations Department of Public Information in partnership with UN-DESA. Best wishes, Lauren [...]
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Ever needed responses to the argument of skeptics while on the road speaking somewhere. Check out the new iphone app developed by the folks at Skeptical Science: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=2996
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The Utah House of Representative in the United States has passed a resolution declaring climate change a hoax, indeed perhaps a conspiracy, and it has called for suspension of pertinent federal regulations: http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/02/house-resolution-passed-in-utah-climate-change-a-conspiracy/ This might be a good jumping off point to discuss the current status of climate change science and whether “Climategate” warrants responses [...]
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A very recent piece in Science, Robock, et al., A Test for Geoengineering?, 327 Science 530-31 (2010) provides an excellent critique of why one of the chief claims of proponents of solar radiation management geoengineering (most prominently, injecting sulfur dioxide or other particles into the stratosphere to reflect incoming solar radiation), that we can start [...]
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