Skeptics Hot List / Solar Article

http://www.skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=60

More Scientific Evidence

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE58D20U20090914?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews

Cool Link

http://www.bestfutures.org/

Sustainability Major!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/education/20GREEN.html?ref=business

Paragraphs for Research Paper

PARAGRAPHS: RESEARCH FORUMLA

1. INTRODUCE SOURCE / SUMMARY OF IT

2. Introduce specific idea

3. Select passage from text and quote from it (use proper citation)

4. paraphrase and translate passage

5. why is this passage important?

Why is it meaningful?

What are the keywords (define)?

Link to ideas

6. connect back to thesis

7. transition

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Climate Change in the news

RECORD HEAT in the USA:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090730/ap_on_re_us/us_northwest_heat;_ylt=AvSUaNhnrItAIG.qfSaHQUR2wPIE;_ylu=X3oDMTJrOXN0aWMxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNzMwL3VzX25vcnRod2VzdF9oZWF0BGNwb3MDNARwb3MDNARzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA25vcnRod2VzdGRyaQ--

Climate Change in the News

FUEL FROM FEATHERS:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28obfeathers.html?_r=1&ref=science

Commercial Links

Colgate 1950s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFydzXFcA-Y

Slinky 1960s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZL6RGkPjws

Big Mac 1970s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en4muUSIRT4

Kraft 1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz7UD-OnwxQ

Pizza Hut 1990s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDAyOf6j1A&feature=PlayList&p=74DA9A21F5ED2E27&index=31&playnext=3&playnext_from=PL

Jetta 2000s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7iaM82P8bE

Pepsi 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZUWDKVuz9k


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Cigarettes 1950s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=690HqDSBRVs

Miller Beer 1970s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj-lYM5GCQg

Banned Clinton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahdnOQ9XCA

The Story of Stuff

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Dead Cities citation

Davis, Mike. Dead Cities. New York: The New Press, 2002.

Climate Change in the news

ANOTHER GLACIER NEAR ANTARCTICA

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090722/sc_afp/scienceclimatewarmingglacier

Research Assignment: Statement of intent

Assignment for Research Statement

5 questions that animate (motivate) your research (drive your research).


Bibliography (at least three entries / at least one book)


Statement of intent (1-3) sentences

I intend to study …

I intend to study this because…(The reason for this is…)

Video: "The Katrina Myth"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wln_iq5bc8k

Emile's Echo: Shelly's Ozymandias

Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

Climate Change in the News

New Clouds!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/nightclouds?npu=1&mbid=yhp

Key Words: Radiant City

Disaggregates

Misallocation – wrongly placed

Cartoonification – clownish, “perfect”

House pods – people of certain incomes live in one area

Andre Duany – architect, town planner

Subdivision – different sections of suburban homes

Monocultures – singular cultures – clusters that are spread out (suburbia)

Traditional town – place where civic buildings, shops, work places, and homes are not disaggregated, but together

20th century nervous breakdown: downfall, tragic à building culture

Urban and suburban --

“energy scarce future”

Suburbia Links

Viewing: “Sprawl City”
http://www.sprawlcity.org/

“Radiant City: Suburban Landscape”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCeWCVWZbdo&feature=fvw

“Radiant City: Commuting”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXNb1uifds&feature=channel

“1950s”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkhA2w4cXs&feature=related

“Gangs and White Flight”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVHMJz0IYQM

“End of Suburbia: Trailer”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM
“James Howard Kunstler: The Tragedy of Suburbia”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ&feature=related

Climate Change in the News

THE US TO CHINA: It's coming for you

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/world/asia/16warming.html?ref=world

THE US TO CHINA: Let's go for green buildings

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/world/asia/17beijing.html?ref=world

Ray's Recommendations

James Hansen speaks out:

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TwentyYearsLater_20080623.pdf

A response to Climate Change skepticism (sponsored by Exxon Mobil):



http://www.exxposeexxon.com/facts/exxonspin.pdf

Reacting to Mass Death

Discussion: – National Geographic (six degrees)
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ZQRIsn2pA&feature=channel
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-0_gDXqYeQ&feature=channel
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rdLu7wiZOE&feature=channel
4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFrR3g4BRQ&feature=channel
5- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nRf2RTqANg&feature=channel
6- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8qmaAMK4cM&feature=fvw

Climate Change in the News

The Public doubts the scientists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/science/10survey.html?emc=eta1

Climate Change Skeptics

“The Climate Change Denial Industry”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGrkVoa78o

“Global Warming: Junk Science vs. Real Science”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQAHVQ1Psc&feature=related

Climate Change in the news

Omari might have an answer to Krugman's question at the end of this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/opinion/13krugman.html?_r=1

Climate Change in the News

Invasive species in SF Bay:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090711/ap_on_sc/us_killer_seaweed

Make your own energy, get paid for it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8146318.stm

Climate Change in the News

Arrests made in Mount Rushmore incident:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090708/ts_alt_afp/environmentwarmingusprotest

Economic politics continue to divide developed and developing nations over climate change action:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/world/europe/09prexy.html?_r=1&hp

Tonight's Assignment

For this assignment, summarize the scientific explanation for climate change (and/or global warming) in your own words. Relate the information as if you are writing for someone who does not understand science very well.

Use the information from Al Gore's film, the chatper from "Global Warming" (Mark Maslin), and Elizabeth Kolbert's "The Climate of Man" series as you see fit.

Be sure to document or refer to your sources.

"As Kolbert reports..."

"According to Mark Maslin, ...."

Provide a working bibliography.


Minimum: 250 words
Maximum: 750 words

Links for Class thru July 9th

http://www.scribd.com/doc/1308/What-Manhattan-might-look-like-if-sea-levels-continue-to-rise

                       

http://www.northeastclimateimpacts.org/