Climate Change

Global Warming Resources

Dr. Michael Schlesinger, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Director of the Climate Research Group, discusses evidence and proof in support of global warming, where global warming could be by the end of the century depending on today’s actions and policy for reducing CO2 emissions.

For more Center for Global Studies resources on this topic, see the Sustainable Development Research Cluster.

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Michael Schlesinger
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Teach-In on Global Warming

Web Address: http://ensemble.atlas.uiuc.edu/app/sites/index.aspx?destinationID=TSvuPBZxdE2O8XBbCvm9ig&contentID=u0mQxc4KpUSSyNzFSrh4fA
Date: January 30, 2008
Speaker(s): Andrew Leakey, Michael Schlesinger, William C. Sullivan
Organization: University of Illinois
Keywords: Climate Change; Environment
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
Format: Flash
Running Time: 1 hour 29 minutes
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Envisioning Catastrophic Climate Change

Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/video.html?src=/hist/hist-v-2009-1/hist-v-2009-1&player=SDNC
Date: September 24, 2009
Speaker(s): Spencer R. Weart
Organization: Historian and former Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics
Keywords: Climate Change; Environment
Research Clusters: Global Studies as a Field of Study; Sustainable Development
Format: Flash
Running Time: 1 hour 18 minutes
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Warming and Crop Production in the US and Beyond

Download Link: http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/11813/lobell_2009_food_climate.pdf?sequence=2
Date: March 5, 2009
Author(s): David B. Lobell
Affiliation: Food Security and Environment Program, Stanford University
Keywords: 2009 Joint Area Centers Symposium; Agriculture; Climate Change; Sustainable Development
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
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Livelihood Security and Climate Change in Africa

Web Address: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/11832
Date: March 5, 2009
Speaker(s): Mamadou A. Baro
Organization: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona
Keywords: Africa; 2009 Joint Area Centers Symposium; Climate Change; Economics; Sustainable Development
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
Format: QuickTime
Running Time: 21 minutes
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Climate Change and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia

Web Address: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/11829
Date: March 5, 2009
Speaker(s): Paul A. Goble
Organization: The Institute of World Politics
Keywords: East Asia; Europe; Russia and Central Asia; South East Asia; South Asia; 2009 Joint Area Centers Symposium; Climate Change
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
Format: QuickTime
Running Time: 20 minutes
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Warming and Crop Production in the US and Beyond

Web Address: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/11813/p4_lobell.mov?sequence=4
Date: March 5, 2009
Speaker(s): David B. Lobell
Organization: Food Security and Environment Program, Stanford University
Keywords: 2009 Joint Area Centers Symposium; Agriculture; Climate Change; Sustainable Development
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
Format: QuickTime
Running Time: 13 minutes
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Food for thought: Crop responses to climate change

Web Address: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/11814/p4_leakey.mov?sequence=4
Date: March 5, 2009
Speaker(s): Andrew Leakey
Organization: Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois
Keywords: 2009 Joint Area Centers Symposium; Agriculture; Climate Change; Food Security
Research Clusters: Sustainable Development
Format: QuickTime
Running Time: 14 minutes
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Some Hard Truths You Should Know about Global Warming

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August 8, 2008
Author(s): Michael Schlesinger
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publication Type: Policy Brief
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Abstract:

Professor Michael Schlesinger presents a case for further action on the part of the international community to monitor the effects of human activity upon the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

 

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