Global Climate Change Notes

C.W. Post
Department of Earth and Environmental Science

Global Climate Change
Notes

Dr. V.J. DiVenere
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science
C.W. Post Campus - Long Island University

Department Home Page	Library Resources
GLY 529 Syllabus	GLY 29 Syllabus
Central Park Field Trip	GLY 29 Homework Assignments

These notes will be periodically updated as the semester progresses. I will highlight new/changed items. Check back regularly. Hit your browser's Refresh button if you don't see anything new. Watch for announcements at the bottom of this page.
Class Lecture Outlines	Related Notes
Geologic Timescale Climate History Overview
Climate System Overview	Earth's Climate System Earth Environment and Climate
Climate Archives, Proxies, & Models	Sedimentary Environments Radiometric Dating
Global Chemical Cycles: The Carbon Cycle, Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes	The Carbon Cycle and Climate Stable Isotopes
Precambrian Climate: Faint Young Sun, Snowball Earth	Snowball Earth
Plate Tectonics and Climate	Continental Drift to Seafloor Spreading Midocean Ridge Volcanism Subduction Zone Volcanic Arcs
Paleozoic Climate: Late Ordovician Glaciation, Late Paleozoic Glaciation	Paleozoic Evolution Paleozoic Geology
Greenhouse Climate	Cretaceous Greenhouse to Cenozoic Ice Ages
From the Greenhouse to the Icehouse
Orbital Scale Variations - The Ice Ages	Glaciers
Orbital Control of Monsoons and Greenhouse Gases
Climate History Overview	Midterm Overview
Last Glacial Max, Deglacial, and Postglacial Climate	See also: Abrupt Climate Change (National Academies Press)
Millenial Climate Oscillations and Preindustrial Climate
Climate Change During the Last 1000 Years and Since the 1800s	See also: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Causes and Future of Global Warming	See also: U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program Impact Assessment
Mitigation: Greenhouse Gas Reduction	See also: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Final Exam Overview

Geologic Timescale

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Announcements: Apr 28 - new lecture summary notes posted above: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Apr 27 - Quiz 6 has been posted in Blackboard and will remain available until the time of the Final Exam Apr 23 - Final exam review notes posted (above) Watch for Quiz 6 April 28: final exam review, May 5: final exam Apr 20 - The Field Trip to Central Park has been canceled Apr 11 - Field Trip to Central Park April 22 (see directions above) Field trip summary paper will replace lowest quiz/exercise. Mar 22 - Thursday is the deadline for your article approvals (not for submitting articles for approval - the deadline to actually have approved articles). Not everyone has shown me articles yet. Email pdf files for me to look over ASAP. By the time you leave Thursday evening, you need to turn in to me a piece of paper with your two approved articles, listed in proper bibliographic format, for example Berkner, L.V., and L.C. Marshall, On the origin and rise of oxygen concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 22, 225–261, 1965. authors (first author's last name first), article title, journal, volume, page numbers, year. The last lecture before the break we discussed the climate of the last glacial maximum and during deglaciation, including the Younger Dryas episode. This week we will continue with postglacial climate, including insolation max, warm max, and some interesting unresolved issues with climate variations during the present interglacial period. Feb 28 - a Midterm Overview has been added, above; - the last two lecture summary notes (Orbital Scale Var... and Orbital Control of Monsoons...) have been slightly revised to make sure they included only what was covered in class, see highlighted, above; - slide presentation 09 has been updated on the Blackboard site Feb 21- Quiz 3 is available through Saturday, February 26, 11:59 PM Feb 11 - GLY 29 written assignments are now posted, above. GLY 529ers may want to try them out too. Quiz 2 will be posted shortly... Feb 3 - Quiz 1 is available now through Tuesday, Feb 10, 11:59 PM on the Blackboard site. Undergrads: Homework 1 is due today.