Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports

IPCC Third Assessment Report - Climate Change 2001

Summaries for Policymakers and Technical Summaries

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Required Reading

  1. The Scientific Basis, Summary for Policymakers
  2. Impacts, Adaptation and Vunerability, Summary for Policymakers
  3. Mitigation: Summary for Policymakers

Followup documents (in case you're interested)

  1. The Scientific Basis, Technical Summary
  2. Impacts, Adaptation and Vunerability, Techniucal Summary
  3. Mitigation: Technical Summary

Suggested study and discussion questions.

IPCC Website with full reports.

Seminar Activities and Problem Set

  1. Impacts of Rising Temperature: Text and Figures
  2. Impacts of Changes in Precipitation: Figure
  3. Impacts of Rising Sea Level: Text and Figures
  4. (Seminar 3 not yet done
  5. Problem set 4 PDF and Word file.