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Climate Change: An Inter-disciplinary
Approach to Problem Solving
(CLIMATE 480 // NRE 480)
Richard B. Rood
Cell: 301-526-8572
2525 Space Research Building (North Campus)
[email protected]
http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/rbrood
Winter 2016
Class 1, January 7, 2016
Class Information and News
• Ctools site: CLIMATE_480_001_W16
– Record of course
• Rood’s Class MediaWiki Site
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http://climateknowledge.org/classes/index.php/Climate_Change:_The_Move_to_Action
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Course Description Overview
Who are we?
Some Questions and Discussion
Glimpse in the Climate Change Problem
From Course Description
• This is not a math-oriented course
• Identify the important elements of science,
policy, economics, public health, etc.
– Where should we pay attention?
– What do we know versus what do we believe?
• Identify and map the interactions between
these elements and connections to other
external elements
– How big is the problem?
• How is all of this changing?
Readings, Class Participation, Response
• Readings and Participation
– I (and possible guest lecturers) will assign
small “reading” requirements
– Response questions and polls in Ctools
– “Readings”
• Papers
• Descriptions of key figures
• Lectures
Focus / Project
• This year we are going to think about the results
of the Conference of the Parties in Paris, COP
21
– What are the challenges of meeting the goals
of COP 21?
– Scenarios of what the world will look like in 30
to 50 years
• How do these scenarios help us plan
Course strategy
• Series of lectures and introduction to
climate science.
– Break into groups focused on different subject
areas, e.g. energy, sea level rise, agriculture,
health, waste management, etc.
• Readings/lectures that provide entre into the field
will be assigned, but groups will take on learning
and introducing these subjects to the class
• Focus on the use of scientific knowledge in
planning and decision making
Who Am I?
• Richard (Ricky) Rood, Department Climate and Space
Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP) with an appointment
in Natural Resources and Environment
– Current research – improving the use of knowledge
about climate change in policy and planning
– Advisor CLaSP Masters of Engineering in Applied
Climate and undergraduate degree in Climate
Impacts Engineering
– Wunderground.com “expert” blogger
• Teaching this course for the tenth time.
• Teaching, overseeing projects in several other courses
Who are we?
• Name:
• Major or Interest:
• Any course or background expertise that you think might
be important for this course
• Any particular reason you wanted to take this course
• Where do you get your news?
• James Apfel,
Mechanical,
• Vahid Arefi,
Mechanical,
• Phoebe Aron, Earth
and environmental
science,
• Jason Bohrer,
computer science,
• Erika Fluehr, SNRE,
history,
• Dean Fogarasi,
SNRE, atmospheric
science,
• Hayden Hedman
• Samuel Jagodzinski,
Chemical
Engineering,
• Ishi Keenum – CEE • Nurie Kim – CEE • Erik Kostrzewa –
CLaSP, Met,
• Pratik Lakhani, CEE,
El Nino interest,
• Ashley Lucier, PiTE,
• Jack Magri, CEE,
• Ben Mallernee,
CLaSP, Climate,
• Kelly McDonald,
Cognitive Science,
• John Mirandette,
International Studies,
sustainability,
• Sarah Paleg
• Jasmine
Sholapurwalla, IOE,
PiTE,
• Jayson Toweh, PiTE,
• Nathan Wallace,
Chem Engineer,
PiTE, emission
reduction,
• Trevor, IOP
• Wen Juan, Visiting
Scholar,
Let’s see if we will talk
• Some questions for motivation:
– Is there anything in the recent news that alerts you to climate
change as an important issue?
– When some one asks you about global warming, or you hear
about global warming, what is your first reaction?
– Do you think that the planet is warming?
• Is this warming consequential?
• Is this warming manmade?
• Can we do something about it?
– Are we cooked?
End of 2016 1st Class
The motivator: Increase of CO2
(Keeling et al., 1996)
Climate Change Relationships
CLIMATE CHANGE
SOCIETAL SUCCESS
• Consumption // Population // Energy
ENERGY
POPULATION
CONSUMPTION
Projected Global Temperature Trends
2071-2100 temperatures relative to 1961-1990.
Special Report on Emissions Scenarios Storyline B2 (middle of the road warming).
IPCC ‘01
IPCC 2007:
The last
~100 years
What parameters/events do we care about?
• Temperature
• Water
– Precipitation
– Evaporation
– Humidity
• Droughts
• Floods
• Extreme Weather
• Air Composition
– Air quality
– Aerosols
– Carbon dioxide
• Winds
• Clouds / Sunlight
The impact of climate change is
Water for Ecosystems
Water for People
Water for Energy
Water for Physical Climate
Thanks