Week 9 – Professor James Hansen
Readings:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2018). GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5 °C: Summary for Policymakers
Hansen, J, and Kivlehan, S. (2017, August 14th). OK, US government — see you in court. The Boston Globe, 3pp.
Hansen, J. (2018, June 27th). Thirty years later, what needs to change in our approach to climate change. The Boston Globe, 2pp.
Further materials:
Mooney, C. & Mooney, C. (2019) . Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming. Washington Post.
L. Resplandy, R. F. Keeling , Y. Eddebbar , M. K. Brooks , R. Wang, L. Bopp, M. C. Long, J. P. Dunne, W. Koeve & A. Oschlies (2018). Quantification of ocean heat uptake from changes in atmospheric O2 and CO2 composition. Nature, 563, 105-122.
Hansen, J., Sato, M., Kharecha, P., Von Schuckmann, K., Beerling, D. J., Cao, J., … & Shakun, J. (2016). Young people’s burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions. arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.05878.
Professor James Hansen
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