Class Research Resources and Assignments

Week 12
Video of Lectures


Social Impact of Climate Change: on Earth Day 2008

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).
WBUR - On Point
2008
"Early Spring," WBUR - On Point, (22 April 2008).
Bill Baker
2008
"Oceanographer James McCarthy: A witness to global warming," The Boston Globe - Boston.Com, (7 April 2008).
Science Magazine
2008
Interview with Science Magazine, SCIENCE, vol 318, 25 JANUARY 2008.
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.

 

further ice news...

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).

the reports continue....

 Bill Blakemore
  "Glacier Meltdown Warning," ABC News Online, (22 February 2006).
NOVA
 2006
"Dimming the Sun," PBS - NOVA, (18 April 2006).
Home Box Office
 2006
"Too Hot Not to Handle," HBO Documentary Films, (22 April 2006).
Paramount Pictures
 2006
"An Inconvenient Truth," Forthcoming Movie, (2 June 2006).

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