This is a collection of recorded lectures that serve as a 1 - 3 hour introduction to climate change science. It is made of two other collections: https://openclimate.org/one-hour-summary-of-climate-change-short-course/ and https://openclimate.org/basics-of-the-causes-of-climate-change/ This material has evolved from several years of doing one or [...]
Figure: Hurricane Isabel on the Chesapeake Bay, Cape Anne, Maryland, 2003. The pier in the picture is normally several feet above the water. Introduction This is the collection of lectures, assignments, and other resources for CLIMATE/EARTH 401 at the University of Michigan. [...]
This lecture discusses "framing" in my approach to climate change problem solving. First, I introduce what I mean by structured problem solving. I, then, motivate the need to take some control over the fact that we will be living in a strongly [...]
These lectures are part of my problem solving collection. Lecture 1: The first annotated lecture is motivated by the fact that we find it difficult to think about how to plan when we are faced with a growing threat. We struggle with [...]
Image: The overlooked power of renewables 2007-2013: From Environmental Defense Fund This lecture is an introduction to energy production and use and their relation to climate change. In this lecture, "energy" is the energy we use as a society. That is, usable [...]
This lecture is part of my problem solving collection. This focuses on some aspects of Communications. For an introduction to the roles of Communications and Continuity in problem solving, please go to this link. Specifically, I introduce rhetoric, the skill of persuasion. The [...]
This annotated lecture is part of my problem solving collection. In this, I introduce the concept of using 2-dimensional graphs to start the analysis of related parts of a problem. societal success and energy societal success and consumption consumption and population consumption [...]
This annotated lecture is part of my problem solving collection. In this, I introduce the concept of approaching a complex problem by considering the time scales, spatial scales, and wealth. short term or long term local or global rich or poor Wealth [...]
Image: Tower of the Winds, Athens, Greece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Winds: This annotated lecture introduces how to take measurements of the Earth's climate, uncertainty associated with measurements, how observations have changed over time, challenges in interpretation of climate change. Despite the shortcomings of temperature as [...]
This annotated lecture introduces my approach to problem solving. It, first, motivates the need to take some control over the fact that we will be living in a strongly warming climate for upcoming decades. However, we have experience in dealing with weather [...]