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Jan 8 | Introduction to the course; students' views; the greenhouse effect | |
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Jan 10 | The Keeling curve for CO2; simple projection for future | |
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Jan 15 | The geologic record; 100K year cycles; & the end of the ice ages | |
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Jan 17 | Scientific discoveries; the carbon cycle; CO2 projections from MIT | |
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Jan 22 | Feedback control, physiology and homeostasis | |
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Jan 24 | Daisyworld and homeostasis | |
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Jan 29 | More examples of negative and positive feedbacks | |
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Feb 5 | The modelers, feedback and the Other GHG (handout) | |
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Feb 7 | The Stern Review and goals for emission reduction | Stern Review, Ford pp 16-21 |
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Feb 12 | class cancelled | |
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Feb 19 | Energy Use, Wedges and the CAFE standard (slides) | |
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Feb 21 | A Carbon Tax or a Carbon Market; the European Market | |
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Feb 26 | Cap and Trade via Senate Bill 139 (McCain-Leiberman): EIA Study of the projected impact for the USA |
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Feb 28 | Closer Look at Senate Bill 139: WSU study of the impact in the western power system |
Ford, pp 37-42 |
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Mar 4 | Efficiency wedges and exercise on new light bulbs. History of the eletric power industry and efficiency in the 1980s |
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Mar 6 | Efficiency accomplished in the 1980s (with utility programs) Efficiency projections with cap-and-trade |
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Mar 18 | Wind Generation: S139 results, US policy and European policy | |
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Mar 20 | Wind Generation: the RPS and Tradeable Green Certificates | |
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Mar 25 | or Candidates' Views on Cap and Trade |
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Mar 27 | Advanced Technolgy: Electric Vehicles | |
| 23 | April 1 | class cancelled | |
| 24 | April 3 | ||
| 25 | April 8 | George Mount, Environmental Engineering and the Lab for Atmospheric Research: Ethical Issues in Climate Change | |
| 26 | Apr 10 | 2nd exam discussion; student presentation; Dr. Mount's lecture. | |
| 27 | Apr 15 | Bill Budd, Dept. of Political Science and Criminal Justice: King County Prepares for Climate Change |
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| 28 | Apr 17 | Jeff Vervoort, SEES: The Oceanic System and the Thermohaline Circulation pattern (image) | |
| 29 | Apr 22 | short meeting for student presentations; take-home questions;
and class evalulations |
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| 30 | Apr 24 | dead week -- no class | |
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