Lecture Notes

Instructors

HJ = Prof. Henry Jacoby
RP = Prof. Ronald Prinn
JC = Jason Cohen
MS = Marcus Sarofim


SES # TOPICS
1 Introduction and overview (HJ and RP) (PDF)
2 Institutions I: Political and analytical organizations (HJ and RP) (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
3 Review of the mathematics of climate analysis (JC) (PDF)
4 Climate I: Past climate, and gases, aerosols and radiation (RP)
5 Institutions II: The international climate negotiations (HJ) (PDF)
6 Climate II: Dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans (RP)
7 Economics primer (MS) (PDF)
8 Economics I: Economic growth, technology and GHG emissions (HJ) (PDF)
9 Economics of the global commons (MS) (PDF)
10 Economics II: The economics of GHG emissions control (HJ) (PDF)
11 Introduction to the Toy IGSM (MS and JC) (PDF)
12 Climate III: Interaction of atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere (RP)
13 Emissions trading systems (HJ) (PDF)
14 Climate IV: Regional impacts of climate change (RP)
15 Analysis of the benefits of GHG mitigation (HJ) (PDF)
16 Economics III: Climate policy analysis (HJ) (PDF)
17 Pollution-climate interactions (JC) (PDF)
18 Review of methods of uncertainty analysis (MS and JC) (PDF)
19 Integrated assessment I: Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis (RP)
20 Analysis of the non-CO2 gases (MS) (PDF - 1.8 MB)
21 Integrated assessment II: The Kyoto protocol and post-2012 options (HJ) (PDF)
22 Discussion of homework sets and the policy exercise
23 Climate V: unresolved problems in climate analysis (RP)
24 Integrated assessment III: Adaptation and geoengineering (HJ and RP) (PDF)
25 Student team presentations (All and guests)
26 Final summary and discussion (All)