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Week 11
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Social Impact of Climate Change:

Polar Transformations: The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment and Its Implications

Professor James J. McCarthy
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Readings:

Adrian Campbell,
2000	"[The BBC's Adrian Campbell "These dramatic images are likely to rekindle anxieties about climate change"] North Pole ice 'turns to water'," BBC World Service, (20 August, 2000, 02:16 GMT 03:16 UK Sunday).

BBC World Service
2000	"North Pole ice 'turns to water'," BBC World Service, (20 August, 2000, 02:16 GMT 03:16 UK Sunday).

James J. McCarthy
2001	"Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Third Assessment Report, 2001," The Climate Report, Vol. 2, No. 1, (Winter, 2001), pp. 2-5.

IPCC - Working Group II (James J. McCarthy, Co-Chair)
2001	Climate Change 2001: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, (Cambridge, England, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC), 2001).

Alvin Powell
2001	"Some don't like it hot: James McCarthy knows what's around the corner," Harvard University Gazette, (March 22, 2001).

Jonathan Shaw
2002	"The Great Global Experiment," Harvard Magazine.(November-December 2002).

and

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA)
2004	and documentation, particularly: the ACIA Highlights and Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment

Robert Corell, (member of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment team)
2004	“Where on Earth are We Going?" Symposium in honor of Maurice Strong, September 11, 2004, Wesleyan University, Middletown Connecticut.

Supplementary Material

CBS Evening News
	"Inside Story (Arctic Warming)," CBS Evening News, (31 May 2004).

CBS News
	"What Does it Mean to You? (Global Warming)," CBS Evening News, (27 October 2004).

Christine McGourty,
	"Global warming threatens Arctic ice," BBC News Online, (6 November 2004).

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
	"Arctic ice melt to threaten Florida, scientists say," Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, (8 November 2004 17:10:29 EST).

PBS Newshour
	"Polar Warming," PBS - Newshour Online, (8 November 2004).