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 [...]
Image: The author in his kayak, Hurricane Isabel, Cape Anne, Maryland: This annotated lecture starts with a very short history of climate change. It relies on Spencer Weart's, The Discovery of Global Warming. Then it states the outcomes of the scientific [...]
This annotated lecture introduces the measurements of temperature as well as projections of temperature to 2100. There is an emphasis on the physical reasons of what is presented. Link to lecture (12 minutes)
This annotated lecture introduces the measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There is discussion of the behavior of carbon dioxide, including the trend from fossil fuel burning and the take up and release of carbon dioxide by plants. There is also [...]
This annotated lecture presents three slides of observations on how the climate is changing. The perspective is on the fact that heat is accumulating in the environment. Much of the heat is stored in the oceans. Some of the heat is melting [...]