{"id":19,"date":"2014-10-07T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/wp\/?p=19"},"modified":"2016-01-21T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T00:09:03","slug":"olli-course-announcement-earths-climate-past-present-and-future-and-reasons-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denverclimatestudygroup.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"OLLI course blog 2015 and now at OLLI central Spring 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

1\/21\/2016 – I’ll be teaching this course for OLLI at OLLI central at DU – more to follow<\/p>\n

2015 information:<\/p>\n

“Earth’s Climate; past, present and future and reasons for concern” Fall 2015; click on OLLI tab above for details\/links<\/p>\n

My course description can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n

My syllabus can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n

Book: What we know about Climate change by Kerry Emanuel<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0p.75-76;\u00a0comment on p. 75 to<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026we could elect and do nothing and gamble on a benign outcome. But if we are wrong we will saddle our grandchildren and their descendents (sic) with enormous problems. At the other, we could make serious economic and other tangible sacrifices that might prove unnecessary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

e.g. curb use of fossil fuels independent of climate\/GHGs issues: At what point do we encourage alternative energy sources, despite some greater cost to us now, let\u2019s bank it for our children<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0which leads to this quote on p. 76:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026costs may be high and those paying them are not likely to be serious beneficiaries of their own actions. Indeed, there are few, if any, historical examples of civilizations consciously making sacrifices on behalf of descendents (sic) two or more generations removed<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the discount rate is about.\u00a0<\/span>In that regard we need a social paradigm shift<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"