The Environment and Climate Change we will be reading Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert about the evidence of climate change and its implications in the Arctic.

1. //www.greenr.ca/2009/12/16/ice-caps-melting-within-five-years-and-copenhagens-chaos/

2. Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Elizabeth Kolbert
http://www.amazon.com/Field-Notes-Catastrophe-Climate-CATASTR/dp/
http://oncampus.vassar.edu/issue/20080505/article/080505_summer_reading B001TKBLGM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1333042485&sr=8-2

3. Field Notes from a Catastrophe
• Journalist at the New York Times for 15 years
• Moved to the New Yorker in 1999.
• Elizabeth Kolbert was awarded:
– National Magazine Award for Public Interest, 2006
– National Academies Communication Award for her
three part series on global warming: “The Climate of
Man,” on which Field Notes is based, 2006
– American Association for the Advancement of Science
Journalism Award, 2005

4. Themes
•Climate change
• Short term implications
• Long term implications
• Urgency
•Need for international collaboration
• Science v. politics
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5. Questions to consider as you read
• Do you think it’s reasonable to believe that humans
are contributing to global warming?
• How do you feel about the United States’ resistance
to taking measures to reduce greenhouse gases?
• What might be the consequences of waiting to act?
• What are the implications of the relationship
between science and politics?

6. http://www.deepseawaters.com/list-of-seas-in-arctic.htm