MODULES

WEEK 1: Introductory Material W1-1: National Climate Assessment report W1-2: Resistance to Changing our Habits W1-3: Personal Evidence of Climate Change W1-4: Indicators of climate change? W1-5: Regional Impacts Hurricane Joaquin W1-6: Historical Examples of Drought and culture response W1-7: Inuit Observations of Climate Change	WEEK 2: Data Analysis and Tools W2-1: The Bell Curve and Probability W2-2 The Z-test The Z-test Calculator Example Spread Sheet Climate Events in Eugene Exercise Eugene Climate Norms Some Possible Results Cal-Adapt Tools National Climate Data Viewer Risk Perception I Risk Perception 2 George Carlin: The Big Electron Possion Statistics (not that hard!) Poisson state calculator
WEEK 3: Noisy and Biased Data W3-1: Natural Climate Variability W3-2: Decadel Climate Cycles Fitting El Nino time Series W3-3: Urbanization and Bias in the climate record	WEEK 4: Models of the Climate System IPCC Process and General Models Complications in the Models First Group Presentations
WEEK 5: Feedbacks in the Climate System The Role of Methane READ THIS Running the Melting the polar caps simulator Radiaton Balance and Feedbacks	WEEK 6: Changing the Emissions Profiles RCP Database A primer on the RCP scenarios Global Carbon Atlas Project Stablization Wedges Carbon Capture and Storage The 1950s and the Birth of Consumerism
WEEK 7: Climate Change Denial W7-1: Americans Perception of Climate Change First our own poll W7-2: Climate Change affirmation by the Pentagon; Denial by Congress Second Group Presentations	WEEK 8: Climate Change impacts on the Biosphere, Water Resources and our Future W8-1: Documented Loss of Biodiversity to date W8-2: Water threats and vector borne disease W8-3: Stresses on the Global Water Supply Project Aqueduct W8-4: The Tibeten Plateau Problem W8-5: State of the Future Index W8-6: Climate Change and Food Security
WEEK 9: Risk Assessment and Climate Change Billion Dollar Weather Disasters W9-2: The Insurance Industry view of Climate Change as a Natural Hazard	WEEK 10: Climate Change Policy Elements of climate Change Policy Third Group Presentations