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Assigned Class Videos to View Complete Lecture Feedback Form [ 23 June 2009 ] Support Material

Section Session 1 24 June 2009

Assigned Class Videos to View Complete Lecture Feedback Form 25 June 2009 Support Material

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Introduction to Course

When you have completed the form, check your computer configurations to make sure that you have installed on your computer a RealPlayer to be able to hear and view streaming media files. In addition you will need to install an Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to read PDF (Portable Document Files).

          For more information on the technical requirements for viewing lectures, please see the Technical Requirements page

You can obtain free copies of these software programs by clicking on the following icons
and following the instructions for downloading and installation.

Note: If you have RealPlayer installed correctly, you may click on the picture of Earth from the moon below. After a moment, you should hear the "introduction" to the BBC documentary called "Climate Wars," broadcast on 13 January 2004.

If you are hearing nothing, you need to try again to install the RealPlayer program, and then click on this picture once again:

Click the Blue Marble to Hear BBC "Climate-Wars" Excerpts

To test the Acrobat Reader, click on the following and think about going to the forthcoming film about the Mystic River.

Required Reading: Spencer Weart   2003/ 2008 The Discovery of Global Warming (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2003/2008) [with support material.]     Start especially with the, Introduction: A Hyperlinked History of Climate Change Science Required Viewing: YouTube - whitehouse   2009 "White House Releases Landmark Climate Change Report," YouTube - whitehouse, (16 June 2009).   Supplementary Materials Voice of America 2008 "Report Says Significant Climate Change Ahead for US," Voice of America (VOA), 29 May 2008. Consider the converging crises we now face...   What is the appropriate context for studying climate change? What is the nature of "our moment"? In other words, in what continuum should we start to view our changing climate? "Picture This..."   [Who is saying this? Why is this significant...? Should you pay attention to this? If so, why? If not, why not?] Six Degrees of Warming  2008 National Geographic Magazine, with Mark Lynas What are other experts saying about the converging crises...? Consider the recent work of Gus Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

 

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