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Feb 15

John Walsh

Climate Change and Arctic Cryosphere.

Assignment:

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

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Feb 17

Somnath Baidya Roy

Climate Change and Water Resources.

Assignment:

(1) Piao et al., "The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China". Nature, 467, pp 43-51 (2010).

(2) Milly et al., "Stationarity is dead: Whiter water management". Science, 319, pp 573-574 (2008).

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Feb 22

Atul Jain

Climate Change Impacts: An Overview.

Assignment:

IPCC Working Group II Summary for Policymakers, "Climate Change 2007:Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability," (2007).

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Feb 24

James Angel

Climate Change and Illinois.

Assignment:

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Mar 1

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.

Mar 3

Suresh Rao

Climate Change and Water-Food-Bioenergy Sustainability.

Assignment:

Raudsepp-Hearne et al., "Untangling the environmentalist's paradox: Why is human well-being increasing as ecosystem services degrade?". Nature, 576, pp 576-587 (2010).

Questions:

Assigned Questions.

Mar 8

Students

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