Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES
1 Introduction and Overview (PDF)
2 Institutions I: Political and Analytical Organizations (PDF 1) (PDF 2 - 1.1 MB)
3 Review of the Mathematics of Climate Analysis (PDF)
4 Climate Machine I: Past Climate and Gases, Aerosols and Radiation (PDF)
5 Introduction to the Toy IGSM
6 Economics I: Economic Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (PDF)
7 Institutions II: The International Climate Negotiations
8 Climate Machine II: Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Oceans (PDF - 1.3 MB)
9 Review of the Economics of Environmental Quality (PDF)
10 Economics II: Greenhouse Emissions and Policy Costs (PDF)
11 Renewables, New Technologies and Bottom-Up Analysis (PDF)
12 Climate Machine III: Interaction of Atmosphere, Oceans and Biosphere (PDF - 1.6 MB)
13 Issues in the Construction of Climate Effects Relationships (PDF)
14 Economics III: Climate Policy Analysis Under Certainty (PDF)
15 Interaction of Climate Change and Air Pollution (PDF)
16 Climate Machine IV: Regional Effects of Climate Change (PDF - 1.8 MB)
17 Review of Methods of Uncertainty Analysis (PDF)
18 IA: Predicting Change: Sensitivity Studies and Uncertainty Analysis (PDF)
19 Introduction to Environmental Decision Under Uncertainty (PDF)
20 Air Pollution in Developing Countries and the Asian Brown Cloud
21 Economics IV: Climate Policy Choice Under Uncertainty (PDF)
22 Institutions III: Domestic Politics and Implementation
23 Climate Machine V: Unresolved Problems in Climate Analysis (PDF - 2.4 MB)
24 Discussion of Homework Set 4, and of the Policy Exercise
25 Student Team Presentations
26 Final Summary and Discussion