MET 112 Global Climate Change Lecture 1

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MET 112 Global Climate Change - Lecture 1

• Introduction and Course Outline
• Dr. Eugene Cordero
• San Jose State University, Spring, 2004

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Lecture Outline

• Introductions and welcome
• Discussion of greensheet
• Academic dishonesty
• Learning Contract
• Global climate change
• Whats it all about??

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Learning Contract

• Instructor
• On time and prepared (99 of time!)
• Answers questions.
• Approachable and friendly.
• Fair with assignments and grades.
• Genuinely concerned about your learning and
  intellectual development.
• Students
• Make every effort to arrive on time and if late,
  enter class quietly.
• Preserve a good classroom learning environment by
  a) refraining from talking when other people are
  talking b) turning off cell phones.
• Be courteous to other students and the
  instructor.
• Aware that learning is primarily their
  responsibility.
• Aware of universities policy on academic
  integrity and pledge to abide by them at all
  times.
• Have read and understand what plagiarism is and
  know how to cite sources properly.

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Academic Integrity

• Integrity of university, its courses and degrees
  relies on academic standards.
• Cheating
• Copying from anothers test, cheatsheet etc.
• Sitting an exam by, or as, a surrogate.
• Submitting work for another
• Plagiarism
• Representing the work of another as ones own
  (without giving appropriate credit)
• Pg 448 of SJSU catalog

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Plagiarism

• Judicial Affairs
• http//sa.sjsu.edu/judicial_affairs/index.html
• Look at the Student Code of Conduct
• Read through SJSU library site on Plagiarism
• http//www.sjlibrary.org/services/literacy/info_co
  mp/plagiarism.htm
• http//turnitin.com/

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Definitions

• Weather
• Climate
• Meteorology and Climatology represent the study
  of weather and climate respectively, but are each
  components of Atmospheric Science and are dealt
  with in this course

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Definitions

• Weather
• the state of the atmosphere at a particular point
  in time.
• Climate
• the accumulation of daily or seasonal weather
  events over a longer time period.
• Meteorology and Climatology represent the study
  of weather and climate respectively, but are each
  components of Atmospheric Science and are dealt
  with in this course

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Video
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It is has water, oxygen and a hospitable
climate Reference IPCC
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World Population 6,056,528,577
The Challenge Sustainable Management of an
Ever-Changing Planet
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The Challenge Sustainable Energy
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The Challenge Food Security
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• Food production needs to double to meet the needs
  of an additional 3 billion people in the next 30
  years

Climate change is projected to decrease
agricultural productivity in the tropics and
sub-tropics for almost any amount of warming
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The Challenge Sustainable Forestry
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• Wood fuel is the only source of fuel for one
  third of the worlds population

Wood demand will double in next 50 years
Climate change is projected to increase forest
productivity, but forest management will become
more difficult, due to an increase in pests and
fires
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The Challenge Water Security
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Water Services
Climate change is projected to decrease water
availability in many arid- and semi-arid regions
Population facing water scarcity will more than
double over the next 30 years

• One third of the worlds population is now
  subject to water scarcity

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The Challenge Sustainable Management of an
Ever-Changing Planet
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Climate Change An integrated framework
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Part I Climate Change Natural Forcing
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Climate Change An Earth System Perspective
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Part II Climate Change Anthropogenic Forcing
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Early concerns of ozone depletion
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Antarctic Ozone Hole
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Ozone levels from 70s and 90s
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Part III Climate Change in the Future
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1997 Kyoto Protocol
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• You are watching your favorite news program (i.e.
  CNN, BBC or NBC) and they are reporting on a
  massive heatwave that is crippling the Midwest.
  The news reporter states that this event is
  clearly a result of climate change. Your
  roommate laughs and remarks that the news
  reporter is full of it. Who is right and why?