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Science requirements and the requirements of scientists

Population and consumption ... It is consumption

Open source Open governance

Consensus

Solar Variability

Balance of water: solid, liquid, vapor

      Bob's book, orbital analysis

Bitz and the thermohaline circulation

Southern hemisphere ice

Civilizations, Migration, Climate Change

• • Anasazi
• Medieval Warm Period
• Mayan
• Katrina
  • Census bureau
  • Post Office

Accelerators: catalysts of policy

• Class
• From lectures

Insurance Industry

Questions of clarification and skepticism

• Oreskes seminar

• Models
  • Types
  • Assumptions
  • Forgotten
  • Layers
• Model validation
• Forced and internal modes of oscillation.
• Model bias
• Time scales

• Cycles
  • What causes cycles?
    • Can we identify cause?
    • Do we only know there is a cycle?
  • Cycles and Trends are not mutually exclusive

• Water as a greenhouse gas
  • Always had a lot of greenhouse gas, how does adding such a little bit matter?
  • Examples of little things mattering
    • DDT
    • Sewage
    • Adding another blanket

• Elements of argument
  • Forgotten, ignored, and suppressed mechanisms
  • Credentials of skeptics
  • Diversion of argument with personal attacks
  • Diversity of opinions amongst scientists (and evangelicals)

• Role of skepticism

• Belief, What we want to believe, What we need to believe

How to Solve Problems: Complex problems with no known solutions

Unknown Unknowns

Incremental and Abrupt Climate Change

• Unknown Unknowns

• Adapting
  • Adapting to Incremental Change
  • Adapting to Abrupt Change

• Thermohaline circulation
• Melting
  • Ice sheet melting
  • Sea level rise
  • Methane from the tundra

• Ocean acidification

Done

Texas coal ... cost of coal