Today

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Todays Plan

• Logistics
• Email Announcementsbe sure to check
• General Questions about Brochures
• I will be checking with groups during mentor
  session
• 7pm mentor session please see me right after
  class HERE
• Extra Credit by Nov. 26 (week from Wednesday)
• Grades posted on Blackboard with attendance
  counts
• 1 on 1 meetings Wednesday and next Monday
• 5pm 8pm when not in mentor session
• Go over all your work, set goals for rest of term
  and next term
• Go over Footprint grading and connection to book
• Kolbert Ch. 8 and 9
• Mentor session Ways of writing citations, APA
  format

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Carbon Footprint Writing

• The overall goal to communicate effectively
  think general reader (who hasnt seen the
  assignment)
• Abstract is standalone summary of
  reportincluding results!
• Intro sets context, gives motivation, and preview
  of what is coming
• ASK if dont know how to do something
• How to add or remove things from charts, etc.
• Level of detail hard to knowso ask us
• Need details on how you made estimates
• Do not need details on how you made charts, or
  how you added information to website
• One gains experience with these things through
  practice

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Carbon Footprint Writing cont.

• Use of bullets in methods, headings
• Results section needs words that refer to graphs,
  tables
• Make sure BW printing of graphs shows
  differencesuse different patterns (and colors if
  you want)
• Proofreadand read it out loud to yourself
• Do NOT combine sections put what belongs in each
  section in that section
• Caption and title on tables, graphs,
• Be clear on units, annotate pie chart with values
  (or at least percentages)

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Carbon Footprint Issues

• Average in class from 2.5 to 15 tons per year
  (why all lower than average?)
• Possible explanations
• Lifetime development affluence more impact
• University lifestyle
• Conclusion Im doing better than US average, so
  Im done?
• Kolbert cake analogy?
• Footprint is a ROUGH estimate

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Carbon Footprint Issues cont.

• Carbon Offsets This is what these websites are
  selling and why calculators are provided for free
• Choosing carbon offsets (not all equal)
• Carbon offset vendors that sell Gold Standard
  offsets
• Planetair, Less, My Climate, Sustainable Travel
  International, Climate Friendly, Atmosfair, Pure
• How does burning a gallon of gas (weight 6.3 lbs)
  produce 20 lbs of CO2?
• See http//www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/CO2.shtml
• Breathing 1 kg of CO2/day
• http//answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid200809
  23091421AA830QK
• http//www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-b
  ut-true/profs-probings/carbon_virgin_earth_climate
  _breathing

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The Day After Kyoto Ch. 8

• 1992 Rio Earth Summit (Bush I signed)
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Common but Different Responsibilities
• Kolberts Cake Analogy
• Greenhouse gas intensity
• Scientific consensus
• 900 scientific articles, 0 disputed anthropogenic
  warming (1993-2003)
• All G8 Countries Science Academies Joint
  Communication (2005)
• threat of climate change is clear and increasing

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U.S. Obstructionism

• How much power should one president have in
  setting the global warming agenda?
• Frontline Hot Politics Censorship
• Small Groups
• Will things change with Obama presidency? If so,
  how?
• Will economic considerations impact this?
• What should the role of government science be in
  a democracy?
• How separate from the administration in power?
• What is the responsibility of individuals?
• Individual behavior vs. collective behavioral
  change mechanisms?
• Groups report