Readings

• Christian Parenti. 2012. The Tropic of Chaos. NY: Nation Books (Chapters 1-2). In Canvas.
• Tim Flannery. 2005. The Weather Makers. NY: Grove Press (Chapters 1-3 , pp 11 – 35). In Canvas.
• W. Ripple, C. Wolf, J. Gregg, J. Rockstrom, M. Mann, N. Oreskes, T. Lenton, S. Rahmstorf, t. Newsome, Chi Xu, J-C. Svenning, C Cardosa Pereira, B. Law, T. Crowther. 2024. 2024 State of the climate report: Perilous times on Planet Earth. BioScience 74(12) December: 812–824. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae087

(optional)

• E.O. Wilson. 2003. The Future of Life. NY: Vintage (Chapter 3, ‘Nature’s last stand’). In Canvas.

Lecture pages

• Global warming, climate change, and related concepts
• Glaciation and glaciers
• Humans’ role(s)–let us count the ways
• ‘Tropic of chaos‘
• Climate change action

 Videos (watch at least 2)

• Yale Environment 360. 2010. When the water ends: Africa’s climate conflicts (turn on closed caption).
• Shayla Harris and Andrew Testa. 2012. Greenland’s unfrozen future. Sept 18, New York Times.
• Bill McKibben. Do the math. youtube.com.
• J. Orlowski, J. Aronson, P. DuPré, M. Monroe, J. Balog, J. Svavar, A.  LeWinter, Cinedigm . 2013. Chasing ice. New York: Docuramafilms (excerpt).
• James Hansen, Congressional testimony, 1988 (with commentary).
• Jim Bridenstine, NASA Director, 2018