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Geography 202: Supplemental Readings (updated periodically)

Week 1
  • Tollefson, 2010: An Erosion of Trust?, Nature
  • Lloyd, 2011: Why are Americans so ill-informed about climate change? Scientific American
  • Oreskes 2007, The scientific consensus on climate change: How do we know we're not wrong? MIT Press, pp65-99
  • Robinson and Robinson, 1997, The Science has spoken: Global Warming is a Myth, Dow Jones
Week 2-3
  • Trenberth, 2010: Tracking Earth's Energy, Science
Week 4
  • Tollefson, 2012: Climate Forecasting: A Break in the Clouds, Scientific American
  • Black Carbon: A Review and Policy Recommendations (chapters 1-2), Princeton, 2009
  • Cloud Infographics
  • Clouds: The wildcard of climate change (NSF)
  • Aerosols and Climate
  • Global Dimming: BBC Documentary

Week 5-6

  • IPCC synthesis of global trends in climate
  • Wallace, 2012, Weather and Climate Extreme Events: Teachable Moments, EOS
Week 8
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles and the Physical Climate System (Chapters 1-4, pp 1-28), UCAR
  • Dr. Richard Alley's lecture "The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in the Earth's Climate History"

Week 10

  • A Paleoclimatic Enigma?, Ruddimann, 2010, Science
Week 11
  • Copenhagen Diagnosis
  • IPCC Summary for Policymakers: Physical Climate

Week 12

  • Future Climate in the Pacific Northwest, Mote and Salathe, 2010



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Data Links

  • Inland NW Climate Tracker
  • WestWide Drought Tracker
  • WestMap
  • US Climate Monitoring
  • Western Regional Climate Center
  • NASA Global Monitoring
  • NOAA Earth Research Laboratory
  • State of the CryosphereGlobal SST Anomaly
  • CO2 Concentrations

Climate Science Links

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  • NOAA Climate Watch
  • Climate Impacts Group

Forecasts + Scenarios

  • Climate Prediction Center
  • Climate Wizard
  • PNW scenarios

Blogs and Media

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  • Real Climate
  • Skeptical Science
  • Dot Earth
  • Watts Up With That