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OLLI WEEK 1, September 16, 2014

Climate Principles, feedbacks, cycles and climate self-regulation

Welcome class, our first class Tuesday September 16th 9:30-11:30

 My email contact is (copy/paste)  pebelanger@glassdesignresources.com

Week 1 syllabus:

• Introductions
• web page: https://denverclimatestudygroup.com/
• DU portfolio: http://portfolio.du.edu/earthclimate
• Key principles of climate change
• The difference between weather and climate
• Climate system: feedbacks, cycles and self-regulation (climate, not government)
• What determines Earth’s climate

Detailed week 1 syllabus with Links –

Word document Belanger – Earth climate past present future – week 1 – links work here

pdf – but links don’t work?: Belanger – Earth climate past present future – week 1

Other links:

• recommended books: Climate summary books
• recommended article: A human induced climate-GSAtoday2012-02
• recommended web sites:
  • http://www.skepticalscience.com/
  • http://www.realclimate.org/
  • http://www.climatecentral.org/ 
  • NOAA: http://www.noaa.gov/climate.html, http://www.climate.gov/ and http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/

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Belanger OLLI week1 final slides – PDF, 1.4 MB

Belanger OLLI week1 final – PPTX, 5 MB

credit to University of Exeter MOOC course 2014 (link )

UPDATE EMAILS:

#1 9/20/2014 – supplemental; 2 page support: 

• Global warming ‘pause’ explained and reference: Atlantic and missing heat Science-2014-Kintisch-860-1
• SkepticalScienceHandbook

#2 9/22/2014 – Earth’s heat budget

• WG1AR5_global mean energy budget

#3 9/22/2014 – Update, has it been cooling, and economics

• http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/25/3475168/global-warming-atlantic/

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