ENV 2073

Global Warming: Science and Politics of a Contemporary Issue

University of South Florida

Spring 2019 semester

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

 

 

 

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 usually PDF format but sometimes other formats (Word, PowerPoint, etc.) may be used.

 

 

Syllabus and course information

∙   Class syllabus for Spring 2019

∙   List of optional reading that could be relevant for this class

 

 

Reading and homework assignments

∙   Reading assignment for weeks 1–2

∙   Reading assignment for weeks 3–4

∙   Reading assignment for weeks 5–6

∙   Reading assignment for weeks 7–8 (and part of week 9)

∙   Reading assignment for weeks 9–11

∙   Reading assignment for weeks 12-13

∙   Reading assignment for weeks 14-16

 

 

Writing assignments

∙   First writing assignment:
Overview of first writing assignment
Stage 1: Opening paragraph, due 22 January
Stage 2: Annotated reference list, due 29 January
Stage 3: Outline, due 7 February
Stage 4: Rough draft, due 14 February
Stage 5: Peer reviews, due 21 February
Stage 6: Final paper, due 28 February

∙   Second writing assignment:
Overview of the second writing assignment
Stage 1: Opening paragraph, due 7 March
Stage 2: Annotated reference list, due 21 March
Stage 3: Outline, due 2 April
Stage 4: Rough draft, due 11 April
Stage 5: Peer reviews, due 18 April
Stage 6: Final paper, due 30 April, in the morning

∙   ENV 2073 writing rubric that shows you how your writing will be evaluated (and helps guide your writing, too)

∙   Document about how to write a good outline, to help with the assignments.

 

Other Documents and Figures

The following documents are listed from newest to oldest.  New information and reports about global climate change become available frequently, so it is important to stay up-to-date with the latest findings.

∙    Two documents on carbon pricing, both from late 2018:
World Bank report on carbon pricing
Schultz-Baker plan on carbon pricing coupled with “carbon dividends”

∙    IPCC Special Report (summary for policymakers) (Autumn 2018).  Investigates the impacts of global warming if the average global tempearture rises by 1.5 C (2.7 F) above pre-industrial levels.

∙    The Conservative Case for Climate Dividends (February 2017).  A document prepared by prominent U.S. Republican politicians on how to combat climate change.

∙    Highlights of Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (2014).  Produced by an advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, for the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, and at the request of the U.S. Government.

∙    IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 5th Assessment (2014), Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers

∙    IPCC 5th Assessment (2014), Synthesis Report, full report

∙    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)

∙   Understanding and Responding to Climate Change (2008): 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”

 

 

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Last modified: 18 April 2019