ENV 2073
Global Warming: Science and Politics of a Contemporary Issue
Fall 2011 semester
Instructor: J.A. Cunningham (cunning@usf.edu)
Links to
Course Handouts and Documents
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∙ Class syllabus for Fall 2011
∙ List of optional reading that could be relevant for this class
∙ Reading and homework assignments:
Reading assignment for weeks
1–3 (and part of week 4)
Homework #1, due Thursday, September 8
Reading assignments for weeks 4–5
(and part of week 6)
Homework #2, due Thursday,
September 22
Reading assignments for weeks 6–8
Reading assignments for weeks 9–10
Homework #3, due Thursday,
October 20
Reading assignments for weeks 11–12
Homework #4, due Thursday,
November 10
Homework #5, due Thursday,
December 1
∙ First writing assignment:
ENV 2073 writing rubric that
shows you how your writing will be evaluated (and helps guide your writing,
too)
Overview of first assignment,
including writing prompts, due dates, etc.
Instructions for part 1, the
opening paragraph, due Sept 8
Instructions for part 2, the
preliminary reference list, due Sept 15
Instructions for part 3,
the outline, due Sept 22
Instructions for part 4,
the rough draft, due Sept 29
Instructions for part 5,
the peer review, due Oct 6
Instructions for part 6,
the final paper, due Oct 13
∙ Second writing assignment:
Overview of the
second assignment, including writing prompts, due dates, etc.
Instructions for part 1,
the opening paragraph, due October 27
Instructions for part 2,
the reference list, due November 3
Instructions for part 3,
the outline, due November 10
Instructions for part 4,
the rough draft, due November 17
Instructions for part 5,
the peer review, due November 29
Instructions for part 6,
the final paper, due December 6
∙ Exams
from 2009 and 2010
Below are links to exams from 2009 and 2010, along with my own answers to the
questions asked on those exams.
2009 exam #1 and my answers to exam questions
2010 exam #1 and my answers to exam questions
2009 exam #2 and my answers to exam questions
2010 exam #2
∙ Exams from this semester (fall 2011)
2011 exam #1 and my answers to exam questions
2011 exam #2 and my answers to
exam questions
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 questioning if the concept of man-made global climate change is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated 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
∙ America’s Climate Choices, a 2011 report from the National Research Council
∙ Our
Changing Planet, the 2011 report from the U.S. Global Change Research
Program (USGCRP, a federal program)
Draft Strategic Plan
from the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP, a federal program)
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Last modified: 1 December 2011