Climate Realities

Session Two: Climate Change Realities

Essential Questions

• How has human activity altered the climate?

• What are some of the impacts of climate change?

• What are some possible responses to climate change?

Music: 
"Is Somebody Singing," Chris Hadfield & Barenaked Ladies, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvAnfi8WpVE&list=RDAvAnfi8WpVE&t=106
Space Oddity(David Bowie)- Chris Hadfield 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo

Agenda Review

Gathering: One impact of climate change is……

Rick’s rap

            • review session three homework, overview, in the news

Video: Al Gore, “The Case for Optimism,” Ted Talk,  February 2016  https://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_the_case_for_optimism_on_climate_change

Video: Paul Hawken, "Project Drawdown," 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zYi8C94LU

Closing: reflective sentence starter

Readings:
•  Coral Davenport and Kendra Pierre-Louis, "US Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy," NYTimes, 11/24/18 link to article

• Brian Kahn, “These are the 10 Most Important Climate Stories of 2016,” Climate Central, 12/28/16, http://www.climatecentral.org/news/most-important-climate-change-stories-2016-21007 Climate Central

• Donella Meadows, “Just So Much and No More…,” Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, Summer 2001  Yes! Magazine
• Justin Gillis, "Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change," NY Times, 7/6/17https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/28/science/what-is-climate-change.html
• Ken Edelstein,, " In Drawdown, Paul Hawken ditches the rhetoric to offer 100 practical climate solutions," Mother Earth Network, July 11, 2017https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/drawdown-100-achievable-climate-solutions-Paul-Hawken

• Lisa Friedman & Glenn Thrush, "US Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials, NY Times, 11/3/17https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/climate/us-climate-report.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

“After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.”

Wallace Stevens, from the poem “The Well-Dressed Man with a Beard”