SES # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
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1 | Introduction and overview | (PDF) |
2 | Institutions I: political and analytical organizations | (PDF - 1.0 MB) |
3 | Review of the mathematics of climate analysis | (PDF) |
4 | Climate I: past climate, and gases, aerosols and radiation | (PDF - 1.3 MB) |
5 | Economics primer | (PDF) |
6 | Climate II: dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans | (PDF - 1.1 MB) |
7 | Economics of the global commons | (PDF) |
8 | Economics I: economic growth, technology and greenhouse gas emissions | (PDF) |
9 | Institutions II: the international climate negotiations | (PDF) |
10 | Economics II: the economics of greenhouse gas emissions control | (PDF) |
11 | Introduction to the Toy Integrated Global System Model | |
12 | Climate III: interaction of atmosphere, oceans and biosphere | (PDF - 1.2 MB) |
13 | Analysis of the benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation | (PDF) |
14 | Economics III: climate policy analysis | (PDF) |
15 | Emissions trading and tax systems | (PDF) |
16 | Climate machine IV: regional impacts of climate change | (PDF - 3.2 MB) |
17 | Review of methods of uncertainty analysis | (PDF) |
18 | Integrated assessment I: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis | (PDF) |
19 | Sea level rise and adaptation | (PDF - 2.6 MB) |
20 | Methods for decision under uncertainty | (PDF) |
21 | Integrated assessment II: deciding global effort and burden shares | |
22 | Climate change and the Arctic region | |
23 | Climate V: unresolved problems in climate analysis | (PDF - 2.9 MB) |
24 | Discussion of homework sets and the policy exercise | |
25 | Student team presentations | |
26 | Final summary and discussion |
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