| SES # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and overview | (PDF) |
| 2 | Institutions I: political and analytical organizations | (PDF - 1.0 MB) |
| 3 | Review of the mathematics of climate analysis | (PDF) |
| 4 | Climate I: past climate, and gases, aerosols and radiation | (PDF - 1.3 MB) |
| 5 | Economics primer | (PDF) |
| 6 | Climate II: dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans | (PDF - 1.1 MB) |
| 7 | Economics of the global commons | (PDF) |
| 8 | Economics I: economic growth, technology and greenhouse gas emissions | (PDF) |
| 9 | Institutions II: the international climate negotiations | (PDF) |
| 10 | Economics II: the economics of greenhouse gas emissions control | (PDF) |
| 11 | Introduction to the Toy Integrated Global System Model | |
| 12 | Climate III: interaction of atmosphere, oceans and biosphere | (PDF - 1.2 MB) |
| 13 | Analysis of the benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation | (PDF) |
| 14 | Economics III: climate policy analysis | (PDF) |
| 15 | Emissions trading and tax systems | (PDF) |
| 16 | Climate machine IV: regional impacts of climate change | (PDF - 3.2 MB) |
| 17 | Review of methods of uncertainty analysis | (PDF) |
| 18 | Integrated assessment I: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis | (PDF) |
| 19 | Sea level rise and adaptation | (PDF - 2.6 MB) |
| 20 | Methods for decision under uncertainty | (PDF) |
| 21 | Integrated assessment II: deciding global effort and burden shares | |
| 22 | Climate change and the Arctic region | |
| 23 | Climate V: unresolved problems in climate analysis | (PDF - 2.9 MB) |
| 24 | Discussion of homework sets and the policy exercise | |
| 25 | Student team presentations | |
| 26 | Final summary and discussion |