Session 5

 
   
 

The Mounting Evidence and Increased Urgency: Alarm from The Cryosphere

 

Meanwhile, while humans keep arguing, the arctic (and the Antarctic ) keep on melting. This class will draw upon the increasing evidence coming in from various international circum-polar surveys by scientists and citizens of the artic. The class will review the concerns of scientists that changes in the arctic could lead to a modification of the thermohaline circulation system in the North Atlantic, triggering a phase of abrupt climate change in many heavily populated regions of the world.


Resource Materials

"Al Gore at the 2009 AAAS Annual Meeting," YouTube - wwwAAASorg, (17 March 2009).
God & Global Warming, NOW, PBS, 26 October 2007.
 

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