ENVS 301 Environmental Issues Today

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Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3

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Topic 2: Impacts of Climate Change
Sept 25 - Oct 16

Sept 25

James Angel

Climate Change and Illinois.

Assignment:

Angel, "Temperature Variability in Illinois: 1895-2002," Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science.

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Sept 27

John Walsh

Climate Change and Arctic Cryosphere.

Assignment:

Synthesis/Summary chapter on the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2005).

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Oct 2

Haroon Kheshgi

Long Term Carbon and Energy Management.

Assignment:

"International Policy Approaches to Address the Climate Change Challanges”, Summary Report, an IPIECA Workshop, Beijing, China, 25-26 October 2005. Oct 2001, pp14.

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Oct 9

Rao Kottamarthi

Climate Change and Air Pollution.

Assignment:

Prather et al. "Fresh air in the 21st century?". Geophy Res. Letter, 30(2), 1100, doi:10.1029/2002GL016285 (2003).

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Oct 10

Dev Niyogi

Climate Change and Agriculture.

Assignment:

R. Pielke et al., "A New Paradigm for Assessing the Role of Agriculture in the Climate System and in Climate Change".

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Oct 16

Murugesu Sivapalan

Climate Change and Water.

Assignment:

P.C.D. Milly et al., "Increasing risk of great foods in a changing climate".

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Oct 18

Students

Synthesis papers due. Discussion of student synthesis papers for Topic 2.