WEEK 17: DEC. 21 - 23 Begin assignment due after break. Read in chapter 8 (Ecological Economics) on p. 168 Ecological Economics through the end of the chapter. Summarize each section that begins in Bold Letters in one or two sentences.
WEEK 16: DEC. 14 - 18 MON: Click on the El Nino website: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_el_nino.html
1. Copy the 10 consequences during an El Nino year.
Use the El Nino home page: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html
2. What is an El Nino.
3. Define: thermocline.
4. Click on the graphic of El Nino conditions: Contrast the El Nino, Normal and La Nina thermocline positions.
5. Click on the graphic of Where Can I find an El Nino. Contrast the El Nino, Normal & La Nino graphics.
6. Go to: http://iri.columbia.edu/climate/ENSO/societal/impact/care.html Briefly summarize why it is valuable to know when an El Nino is going to occur.
TUES. Use the internet to find the following answers:
1. Describe the Milankovitch theory including the earth factors that combine to trigger it.
2. How often does the above occur?
3. When is the last time?
4. Using the answer from #3, determine when it will happen again.
WED. Go to:http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/IPCC-4th-Report.html
Summarize the following:
1. Tim Flannery's assessment in The Weather Makers.
2. Summarize the information in A. Working Group I. B. Working Group II C. Working Group III.