UCSD ESYS 10 Introduction to Environmental Systems
Winter 2006
March 7
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Home page:
http://talleylab.ucsd.edu/ltalley/esys10/esys10_talley_2006.htm
Reading: Chapter 16
Problems: Due Thursday
March 16. Chapter 16 review
questions 2, 3, 10
Due today: problems,
chapter 8
Due next Tuesday: case
study 3
Due next Thursday, plus
presentation: Term
papers
Lecture: Global warming
Natural
climate variations Powerpoint
lecture
Global
change Powerpoint
lecture
Next lecture: Lisa Shaffer,
guest speaker
Discussion period: complete Case Study 3: Biodiversity (fisheries)
Handout for Case
study 4 (global warming) (no
writeup)
Topics (with selected links):
Carbon Reservoirs Fossil Fuel Reserves
ForEST: Overview of
Fossil Fuel Energy Resources
EcoWorld:
Energy Overview
Fossil Energy (Department of Energy)
Fossil
Fuel Reserves (U. Sydney)
Drilling to the Ends of
the Earth (Rainforest Action Network)
Missing Carbon Sink
The Missing Carbon Sink
(Woods Hole Research Center)
International Group
Searches For Missing Carbon Sink (UniSci)
A Sink for Missing
Carbon Discovered in Northern Forests (Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the USA)
The
CO2 Fertilization Factor and the ``Missing'' Carbon Sink
Mystery
of the Missing Carbon (NASA)
Forecasting Future Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Climate Change
2001: The Scientific Basis (IPCC)
IPCC Emissions
Scenarios
IPCC Projections for
Future Climate Change
Overview of the Earth System
Bretherton diagram
Bretherton diagram in color
Alternative energy
Wind farm in Palm
Springs
Solar electricity (Solar
electric power association)
Global change
Today's
alarmist article: NASA and deep freeze in western Europe
Abrupt Climate
Change - Physics Today with many
references
Scientific integrity and
the global environment
UCSUSA
report on Scientific Integrity in Policymaking
Last
modification March 7, 2006
email: Lynne Talley