Energy Use and Climate Change

Prof. Micha Tomkiewicz -Room - 1413Ingersoll.; E-mail - michatom@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Office hours: by appointment.

Bulletin Description: Global energy balance as a function of the chemistry of the atmosphere and its effects on global and local climate. Climatic consequences of human energy use. The long history of climate and the relatively short history of human energy use. The socio-economic and political issues involved in attempts to project and influence future energy use and its climatic consequences.

Textbook -

• " The Fork at the End of Now" - Micha Tomkiewicz - To be published.
• Intergovernmental Panel  on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report.
   

 

·       Assignment: 

Students will either work individually or form small teams to research related global issues by using public databases such as the World Bank.

 

 
 

·       Tests

One midterm exam and one final exam.

 

SYLLABUS

Final - Fall 2006

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