{"id":2961,"date":"2012-10-12T11:31:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2012-10-12T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:31:57","slug":"my-first-year-climate-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2012\/10\/my-first-year-climate-course\/","title":{"rendered":"My first year climate course"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first year seminar course, PMU199 Climate Change: Software, Science and Society<\/a> is up and running again this term. The course looks at the role of computational models in both the science and the societal decision-making around climate change. The students taking the course come from many different departments across arts and science, and we get to explore key concepts in a small group setting, while developing our communication skills.<\/p>\n

As an initial exercise, this year’s cohort of students have written their first posts for the course blog<\/a> (assignment: write a blog post on any aspect of climate change that interests you). Feel free to comment on their posts, but please keep it constructive – the students get a chance to revise their posts before we grade them (and if you’re curious, here’s the rubric<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Incidentally, for the course this year, I’ve adopted Andrew Dessler’s new book, Introduction to Modern Climate Change<\/a> as the course text. The book was just published earlier this year, and I must say, it’s by far the best introductory book on climate science that I’ve seen. My students tell me they really like the book (despite the price), as it explains concepts simply and clearly, and they especially like the fact that it covers policy and society issues as well as the science. I really like the discussion in chapter 1 on who to believe, in which the author explains that readers ought to be skeptical of anyone writing on this topic (including himself), and then lays out some suggestions for how to decide who to believe. Oh, and I love the fact that there’s an entire chapter later in the book devoted to the idea of exponential growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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