2019 Osher/Dover #2 Climate Realities

Session Two: Climate Change Realities

Music: 

"Is Somebody Singing," Chris Hadfield & Barenaked Ladies, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvAnfi8WpVE&list=RDAvAnfi8WpVE&t=106

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?

Agenda Review

Gathering: One impact of climate change is……

Rick’s rap

            • review session three homework, overview, in the news Questions on reading

Delaware Realities
             • Climate Central "Surging Seas Risk Finder" Link to site

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
     • debrief

Exercise: Drawdown Project Reports

Exercise No Impact Experiment Reports

Exercise: Imaging A Renewable  Delaware

Closing: reflective sentence starter

Readings:
• Bill McKibben, Life on a Shrinking Planet, New Yorker, 11/26/18 Link to article
• Katie Worth, "Aspirational Climate Goal Embraced at U.N. Talks, but not by U.S.," Frontline/PBS, 12/11/18 Link to article
•  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, 7/6/17 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/28/science/what-is-climate-change.html
• Bob Berwyn, "A Year of Climate Change Evidence: Notes from a Science Reporter's Journal,"
Inside Climate News, 12/24/18 Link o Article
• IPCC "Special report on Global Warming of 1.5" Wikipedia, accessed 2/4/19 LINK to article

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Wikipedia, accessed 2/4/19 Link to 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”