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Video Links
• IPCC 4th Assessment Report on Climate
Change – Synthesis Report
• An Inconvenient Truth (library)
• The Great Climate Warming Swindle
Detailed IPCC Presentations
• IPCC 4th Assessment Report on Climate
Change – Synthesis Report
• IPCC WG1 Report: The Physical Science
Basis of Climate Change (slide share)
• IPCC WG2 Report: Impacts, Adaptation &
Vulnerability
• IPCC WG3 Report: Climate Change
Mitigation
Group Discussions
• Break up into groups with no more than 5 people.
• Select a person as the secretary.
Discuss the following topics for no more than 20 minutes
– What do you think about Global Climate Change (GCC) ?
– Is it an under-appreciated or an over-blown issue?
– Why your position?
Secretaries to summarize the views.
• After time is up, everyone EXCEPT the secretary moves
into another group, and re-deliberate for another 20
minutes.
• Secretaries or a designated person to report comments
– What do you think about Global Climate Change (GCC) ?
– Is it an under-appreciated or an over-blown issue?
– Why your position?
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There are tons of sources out there; how do we know which ones are credible?
Scientists?! They can’t even predict the weather, and they don’t have
agreement amongst themselves, why should we trust them on Global Climate
Change (GCC).
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How arrogant to think that we can change the globe. We're too small to have an
effect.
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Remember Nuclear Winter? People are indulging in irresponsible scare
mongering.
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There is little argument on the existence of global warming, but there's still a
lot on its causes. There are at least 3 documentaries on YouTube disproving
AGW (anthroprogenic global warming).
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One hundred years of data is not enough to know thousands of years of the
past climate! GCC is just a MODEL prediction!
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We are too small. There is really not much we can do as individual to stop
emission of greenhouse gases.
Assignment 1
• Write an essay, in no more than 2 pages, on:
What do YOU think about Global
Climate Change? Is it true? Even if it
is true, is it an under-appreciated or
an over-blown issue?
• submit electronically to me, [email protected], no
later than 2nd March 2009.
Risk Mgt Approach to GCC
• How it all ends by Greg Craven
– Oregon school science teacher
– The Manpollo Project
• Answers to questions from Skeptics
Assignment 2
Dear Students,
Your second assignment is related to the UN Geo4 report:
(a) Read the Summary for Decision Markers of the Fourth UNEP
Global Environmental Outlook Report (GEO4), available on the course
website.
(b) Write a short essay, start by linking a recent news event to one
(some) of the global environmental stresses discussed in the
report, and then discuss how similar stress(es) may impact on
people in Hong Kong or the Pearl River Delta.
By replying this email, send your word or pdf file to me and your TA no
later than 15th March 2009.
Alexis Lau
Course Instructor