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Harvard Extension Environmental Social Meet and Greet
Tonight! - Wednesday, 8 July, 7:00-11:00pm

The Cryosphere and the Possibility of Abrupt Climate Change
Thresholds and Tipping Points in a Non-Linear System

  Required Reading:
Eugene Linden
 
2007
 The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations (New York, Simon Schuster, 2007) [entire]
Suggested Viewing and Readings:
PBS - NOVA
2009
 "NOVA | Extreme Ice | PBS," YouTube - PBS, (19 March 2009).
     [ Watch Full Documentary online.]
National Geographic
2008
 "Story of Earth's Ice.," National Geographic, (13 July 2008 10pm EST). [This is an announcement of a program that is forthcoming. You may wish to record it if you have access to the National Geographic Channel and appropriate equipment.]

Supplemental Information on Abrupt Climate Change
The Thermohaline Circulation Sustem: Potential Changes and Implications
Selected references (via RefShare) relating to global ice and climate change dynamics.

Adrian Campbell,
2000
 "[The BBC's Adrian Campbell "These dramatic images are likely to rekindle anxieties about climate change"] North Pole ice 'turns to water'," BBC World Service, (20 August, 2000, 02:16 GMT 03:16 UK Sunday).
Discovery Channel
2008
 At Antarctic Peninsula, Fast Change, Discovery Channel, 10 July 2008.
WBUR - On Point
2008
 "Early Spring," WBUR - On Point, (22 April 2008).
Bill Baker
2008
 "Oceanographer James McCarthy: A witness to global warming," The Boston Globe - Boston.Com, (7 April 2008).
Science Magazine
2008
 Interview with Science Magazine, SCIENCE, vol 318, 25 JANUARY 2008.
BBC World Service
2000
 "North Pole ice 'turns to water'," BBC World Service, (20 August, 2000, 02:16 GMT 03:16 UK Sunday).

James J. McCarthy
2001
 "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Third Assessment Report, 2001," The Climate Report, Vol. 2, No. 1, (Winter, 2001), pp. 2-5.
IPCC - Working Group II (James J. McCarthy, Co-Chair)
2001
 Climate Change 2001: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, (Cambridge, England, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC), 2001).
Alvin Powell
2001
 "Some don't like it hot: James McCarthy knows what's around the corner," Harvard University Gazette, (March 22, 2001).
Jonathan Shaw
2002
 "The Great Global Experiment," Harvard Magazine.(November-December 2002).

and

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA)
2004

and documentation, particularly:

the ACIA Highlights
and Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment

Robert Corell, (member of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment team)
2004

“Where on Earth are We Going?" Symposium in honor of Maurice Strong, September 11, 2004, Wesleyan University, Middletown Connecticut.
 

further ice news...

Christine McGourty,
  "Global warming threatens Arctic ice," BBC News Online, (6 November 2004).
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
  "Arctic ice melt to threaten Florida, scientists say," Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, (8 November 2004 17:10:29 EST).
PBS Newshour
  "Polar Warming," PBS - Newshour Online, (8 November 2004).

the reports continue....

 Bill Blakemore
  "Glacier Meltdown Warning," ABC News Online, (22 February 2006).
NOVA
 2006
 "Dimming the Sun," PBS - NOVA, (18 April 2006).
Home Box Office
 2006
 "Too Hot Not to Handle," HBO Documentary Films, (22 April 2006).
Paramount Pictures
 2006
 "An Inconvenient Truth," Forthcoming Movie, (2 June 2006).


Special In-Class Discussion Session
8 July 2009
(with hands-on applications):

How Can Scientists More Effectively Communicate
The Impending Climate Crisis to the Public?

What do you think of initiatives like this one?
"Awakening The Dreamer: Changing the Dream"

Can the Internet and the tools of "Web 2.0" enable
us to act upon what scientists now know
in time to make a difference?

 
"Making Your Point with PowerPoint and Other Visual Media"
8 July 2009
 
Readings:
George Siemens
2004
 Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age, elearnspace, 12 December 2004).
 Claire Hoffman
 2006
 Making a (Power)Point of Not Being Tiresome, LA Times (19 April 2006).
 Edward Tufte
 2003

PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely, Wired Magazine, (September, 2003). See also:
Essay: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within

Educause Learning Initiative
 2009
 7 Things You Should Know about VoiceThread, Educause Learning Initiative
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Further Resource Materials from Official Reports

 
National Assessment Synthesis Team, US Global Change Research Program
2000

Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences
of Climate Variability and Change
Alaska [HTML] [PDF]
About Scenarios & Uncertainty [HTML] [PDF]

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC)
2001

Climate Change 2001: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC, 2001),
16. Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic) [HTML] [PDF]

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) - 4th Assessment Reports
2007

Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Summary for Policymakers [Contribution of Working Group I] to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (This Summary for Policymakers was formally approved at the 10th Session of Working Group I of the IPCC, Paris, February 2007.)], (Geneva, Switzerland, IPCC, 2 February 2007).
 
Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Summary for Policymakers: Working Group II Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report Climate Change 2007 [ IPCC WGII Fourth Assessment Report ], (Geneva, Switzerland, Brussles, Belgium, 6 April 2006).
 
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group III — Summary for Policymakers, (Bangkok, Thailand, 4 May 2007).
 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report—Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report— Summary for Policymakers. UNFCCC. (17 November 2007).
 
Note especially the sections devoted to ice in each report.
 


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