The political economy of solar geoengineering

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/29/criticism-harvard-solar-geoengineering-research-distorted?CMP=share_btn_fb

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/mar/27/trump-presidency-opens-door-to-planet-hacking-geoengineer-experiments

GL 4003 second take-home exam

GL4003 Global Change

Second Midterm Exam

Professor Womersley

Due Wednesday April 19th in class or by email

Instructions

This is a take-home exam. Answer all questions, showing work where necessary to demonstrate skills or learning, diagrams if asked or if it helps. If you don’t know or can’t work out an answer, put down what you do know. You may research answers.  You may discuss them with the instructor. You may not confer with other students. Submit electronically, multiple files allowed including statistical files in JMP, Excel, or Smith’s.

Exam is 20% of grade for class, 10% given for each problem below

1. Test the hypotheses that change in average annual temperature is a function of the phase of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation, the level of deposition of volcanic aerosols in the atmosphere, the amount of solar energy hitting the top of the atmosphere, and the combined effect of anthropogenic influences, following the method pioneered by Judith Lean and David Rind (2008). Timelag manipulation is no longer required. Report the results, with all statistical parameters explained. Provide a discussion of the meaning of the results.

2. Using the model or estimator produced by the above method (i.e., using the full equation), and Microsoft Excel, compare the predicted time series to the actual (HadCRU 3) using a graph. How accurate is your model? To what use might it be put?

EII second response paper

This assignment is an exercise in research, critical thinking and informal writing.

Follow all instructions. Due Friday April 7th by email or hard copy.

1. Identify two extant US environmental organizations, one you generally agree with and support, and one you don't
2. Research their missions, goals and methods carefully, using online and print resources, as well as any other social science case study methods you like. Be sure to ask the instructor ahead of time if you choose to interview human subjects
3. Identify some of the different types of careers that are possible within both institutions, and determine the qualifications and experience required
4. In an informal essay, compare and contrast the two organizations and summarize these career pathways
5. Conclude with your own considered viewpoint of each organization
6. Cite your research sources. No particular citation format is required, but your citations should be consistent and give complete information to the reader in case they wish to review your sources.

Mick's 2004 article for ULSF

http://ulsf.org/preaching-not-to-the-converted-why-sustainability-courses-should-be-required-for-all-students-at-all-colleges-and-universities/

Today's question (for ESS, and perhaps posterity)

Ruling on the second travel ban

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3518057/Order.pdf

ESS readings week 8

Cultural cognition:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1549444

Global Warming's Six Americas

http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2009_05_Global-Warmings-Six-Americas.pdf


and update

http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/six-americas-2016-election/

TGIF

           TOADS   by Phillip Larkin

Why should I let the toad work

 Squat on my life?

Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork

 And drive the brute off?

Six days of the week it soils

 With its sickening poison -

Just for paying a few bills!

 That's out of proportion.

Lots of folk live on their wits:

 Lecturers, lispers,

Losels, loblolly-men, louts-

 They don't end as paupers;

Lots of folk live up lanes

 With fires in a bucket,

Eat windfalls and tinned sardines-

 they seem to like it.

Their nippers have got bare feet,

 Their unspeakable wives

Are skinny as whippets - and yet

 No one actually starves.

Ah, were I courageous enough

 To shout Stuff your pension!

But I know, all too well, that's the stuff

 That dreams are made on:

For something sufficiently toad-like

 Squats in me, too;

Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck,

 And cold as snow,

And will never allow me to blarney

 My way of getting

The fame and the girl and the money

 All at one sitting.

I don't say, one bodies the other

 One's spiritual truth;

But I do say it's hard to lose either,

 When you have both.

Videos for EII: The sixties and seventies in the American Zeitgeist

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000002566509/love-canal-a-legacy-of-doubt.html

Vostok Ice Core video for GL4003

BBC - Horizon - 2000 - The Lost World of Lake... by DocumentaryHD2014