ENV 2073

Global Warming: Science and Politics of a Contemporary Issue

University of South Florida

Fall 2009 semester

Instructor: J.A. Cunningham (cunning@eng.usf.edu)

Links to Course Handouts and Documents

Note that all course materials are copyrighted and are intended only for the personal use by students registered in the class.

Documents may not be distributed without the written consent of the course instructor.

These files are PDF format unless otherwise stated.

∙ Class syllabus

∙ First writing assignment:

Overall instructions for the assignment

Instructions for the reference list (10% of assignment grade)

Instructions for the rough draft (15% of assignment grade)

Instructions for the peer review (15% of assignment grade)

Instructions for the final draft (60% of assignment grade)

∙ First examination:

Exam questions

My written answers to the first exam

∙ Second writing assignment:

Overall instructions for the assignment

Other Documents and Figures

∙ Understanding and Responding to Climate Change: a nice “primer” on climate change prepared by the U.S. National Academies, the foremost scientific body of our country

∙ A Skeptic’s Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism: a compilation of speeches and documents put together by Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), a U.S. senator famous for wondering if the concept of man-made global climate change is the “greatest hoax ever perpretated on the American people”

∙ IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 4th Assessment Synthesis Report

∙ IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 4th Assessment Summary for Policymakers

Site created: 25 August 2009

Last modified: 20 October 2009