Earth System, Changing Global Climate,
Hurricanes and Extreme Weather

Seattle, 22-24 June 2006

Chautauqua workshop by Dr. Richard Gammon, University of Washington

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Participants: (front) Judith Slon, Hilbert College, Hamburg NY (jslon@hilbert.edu)
our fearless leader, Richard Gammon (gammon@u.washington.edu)
Dean Campbell, Bradley University, Peoria IL (campbell@bradley.edu)
Jeanne Arquette, Phoenix College, Phoenix AZ (jeanne.arquette@pcmail.maricopa.edu)
(middle) Mary Urban, College of Lake County, Grayslake IL (murban@clcillinois.edu)
(back) Brian Pankuch, Union County College, Cranford NJ (pankuch@eclipse.net)
Ellen Pankuch, Drew University, Madison NJ (EPankuch@Drew.edu)
Philip Penner, Borough of Manhattan Community College, NY NY (ppenner@bmcc.cuny.edu)
E.J. Zita, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA (zita@evergreen.edu)
Anthony Allison, University Prep. Academy, Seattle WA (anthonyallison@comcast.net)
Alisan Giesy, Shorewood HS, Shoreline WA (alisan.giesy@shorelineschools.org)

Links:


An Inconvenient Truth

NASA Earth Observatory

Key Points from IPCC (Gammon)

IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: www.ipcc.ch

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCC) Sound Science - Global Warming FAQ

National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Climate Solutions

 

Workshops: 1: Number of stars in the Universe 2: Steady state birth rate of humans
3: Age of the Ocean 4: Age of the Sun 5: Lifetime of the Sun
6: Density of moist air 7: Rate of change of atmospheric Carbon 8: Energy costs, needs, and availability

 

PowerPoint presentations: Thanks to all the authors who shared these with Dr. Gammon and participants. Please credit the authors if you use these presentations,
Cosmic Story Climate Change Hurricanes
Origin of Life Biota in Danger Greenland
Microbial World Ocean Acidification Policy Responses

"Leave it to the US to do the right thing when all other options have been exhausted." Winston Churchill

"We can save the world for 1% of GDP." Richard Gammon

Scientific American articles:

The Dangers of Ocean Acidification, March 2006, Scott C. Doney

Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb, March 2004, James Hansen

 

Something nasty in the greenhouse, James Lovelock, Atmospheric Science Letters, www.interscience.wiley.com DOI: 10.1002/asl.75

Time magazine special report on Global Warming: Be worried. Be very worried. 3 April 2006

Ethics and Global Climate Change, Steven Gardner, Ethics 114 (April 2004)- what responsibility do we bear for disproportionally polluting? Also summarizes literature with a goal of making the science accessible to non-scientists.

Books

Chem Connections - What should we do about Global Warming? - workshop-based critical thinking text, Sharon Anthony, Thomas W. Brauch, Elizabeth J. Longley, Norton 2004

The Earth System (2d ed.), Lee R. Kump, James F. Kasting, Robert G. Crane, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 1999/2004 (our primary text - good broad undergrad text)

Earth System Science: From biogeochemical cycles to golbal change, Michael C. Jacobson, Robert UJ. Charlson, Henning Rodhe, Gordon H. Orians, Academic Press 2000 (International Geophysics Series Vol. 72) - upper undergrad, beginning grad text

Consider a spherical cow: A course in envionmental problem solving, John Harte, University Science Books 1988

Stormy Weather: 101 solutions to global climate change, Guy Dauncey with Patrick Mazza, British Columbia Arts Council 2001 - inlcudes rebuttals to anti-scientists' arguments

Laboratory Earth: The planetary gamble we can't afford to lose, Stephen H. Schneider, BasicBooks 1997

Developing Ecological Consciousness: Path to a sustainable world, Christopher Uhl, Rowman & Littlefield 2004

One world: The ethics of globalization, Peter Singer, Yale 2002

IPCC Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report, ed. Robert T. Watson and the Core Writing Team, Cambridge 2001

IPCC Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, ed. J.T. Houghton, Y.Ding, et al. , Cambridge 2001

Climate Change Policy: A survey, ed. Stephen H. Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, John O. Niles, Ilsand Press 2002

Climate Change: Causes, Effects, and Solutions, John T. Hardy, Wiley 2003

Gaia: A new look at life on Earth, JE Lovelock, Oxford 1979

The ages of Gaia: A biography of our living Earth, Lames Lovelock, Norton 1988

Red sky at morning: America and the crisis of global environment: A citizen's agenda for action, James Gustave Speth, Yale 2004

Plan B: Rescuing a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble, Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Norton, 2003

The End of Nature, Bill McKibben, Randon House 1989

The End of Oil: On the edge of a perilous new world, Paul Roberts, Houghton Mifflin 2004 - also a great analysis of technologies and prospects for alternative energies

Fieldnotes from a catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert - highly recommended

Hulbert's Peak: The impending world oil shortage, Keneth S. Deffeyes, Princeton 2001

50 simple things kids can do to save the Earth, The Earth Works Group, Scholastics Inc. 1990

Policy implications of greenhouse warming, National Academy Press 1991 (bizarre technological propositions)

Role of the Sun in Climate Change, Hoyt and Schatten

anti-global warming books

The Satanic Gases, Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr., Cato Institute 2000

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the real state of the world, Bjorn Lomborg, Cambridge 2001

Hot talk, cold science: Global warming's unfinished debate, S. Fred Singer, The Independent Institute, 1997

Climate of fear, Michael Creighton

 

 

 

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