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Seminar in Environmental Science

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2008

Required for all Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences majors in the Environmental Science track, this course is an introduction to current research in the field. Stresses integration of central scientific concepts in environmental policy making and the chemistry, biology, and geology environmental science tracks. Revisits selected core themes for students who have already acquired a basic understanding of environmental science concepts. The topic for this term is geoengineering.

Readings

  • Bengtsson, Lennart. “Geo-engineering to Confine Climate Change: Is it at all Feasible?” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 229-234.
    Listed reading
  • Cicerone, Ralph J. “Geoengineering: Encouraging Research and Overseeing Implementation.” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 221-226.
    Listed reading
  • Crutzen, Paul J. “Albedo Enhancement by Stratospheric Sulfur Injections: A Contribution to Resolve a Policy Dilemma?” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 211-219.
    Listed reading
  • Keith, D. W. “Geoengineering the Climate: History and prospect.” Annual Review of Energy and Environment 25 (2000): 245-284.
    Listed reading
  • Kiehl, Jeffrey T. “Geoengineering Climate Change: Treating the symptom over the cause?” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 227-228.
    Listed reading
  • Lawrence, Mark G. “The Geoengineering Dilemma: To Speak or Not to Speak.” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 245-248.
    Listed reading
  • MacCracken, Michael C. “Geoengineering: Worthy of Cautious Evaluation?” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 235-243.
    Listed reading
  • Teller, E., L. Wood, and R. Hyde. “Global Warming and Ice Ages: I. Prospects for Physics Based Modulation of Global Change.” Livermore, CA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Report: UCRL-JC-128157, 1997.
    Listed reading
  • Panel on Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, “Geoengineering.” In Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base . Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1992, chapter 28, pp. 433-364 and appendix Q, pp. 817-835.
    Listed reading
  • Broad, W. J. “How to Cool a Planet (Maybe).” New York Times , 27 June 2006.
    Listed reading
  • Michaelson, J. “Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project.” Stanford Environmental Law Journal 17 (1998):73-140.
    Listed reading
  • Dyson, Freeman J. “Can We Control the Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere?” Energy 2 (1977): 287-291.
    Listed reading
  • Flannery, B. P., H. Kheshgi, G. Marland, and M. C. MacCracken. “Geoengineering Climate.” In Engineering Response to Global Climate Change . Edited by R. G. Watts. Boca Raton, Lewis Publishers, 1997, pp. 379-427.
    Listed reading
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