PowerPoint Presentations for Astro 7: Planetary Climate Science

PowerPoints with material at least partially covered or directly related to optional "Cosmic Perspectives - Solar System" text chapters are labelled with "Chap xx" in the links below. PowerPoints which are material I have assembled myself from various sources and are unique to Astro 7, have a "K" such as "K33: The Carbon Cycle", You can interpret the K33 as "chapter 33" (there is no chapter 33 in the text, another clue this is new material). In many of my PowerPoints you'll find slides with purple backgrounds. These are slides on more advanced material that will not be on any exams. The material is there for the curious who want more. Also, pay special attention to the very last slide - the red slide - which has key ideas for your study for exams. I'll be adding more "red slides" as time goes on. Especially the climate change PowerPoints, are under constant updating, so check back often.

Short Videos for the Breaks

Chapter
PowerPoint Title
# Slides
pdf version
Lecture on Video
  Introduction to Astro 7
37
   
0
Chapter 0: Principles of Clear Thinking and Science and webpage
158
pdf
 
K29
On Teaching (website),
18
pdf
 
5
Light and Matter
52
pdf
 
K20
Heat Transfer Mechanisms
26
pdf
 
K8
Basics of Atmospheres and their Formation
45
pdf
 
11
Atmospheres of The Outer Planets and Their Moons
135
pdf
 
10
The Atmospheres of Mercury, Venus, and Mars
77
pdf
 
14
The Sun and Climate (skipped now, sun aspects placed elseswhere)
35
pdf
 
13
Other Solar Systems Around Other Stars
62
pdf
 
K31
Paleo Atmosphere and Paleo Climate of the Earth
79
pdf
 
K32
The Structure of Earth's Atmosphere
33
pdf
 
K33
Carbon Cycles
28
pdf
 
K34
Climate Modelling
38
pdf
 
K35
Clouds and Aerosols - Effects on Climate
68
pdf
 
K36
The Ocean / Atmosphere Connection
54
pdf
YouTube
K37
Climate Forcings and Climate Time Scales
44
pdf
YouTube (old)
K38a
Current Climate Change - Temperatures
82
pdf
 
K38b
Current Climate Change - Ice
90
pdf
 
K38c
Current Climate Change - Sea Level
31
pdf
YouTube
K38d
Current Climate Change - Other Aspects
88
pdf
YouTube
K38e
Current Climate Change - Deforestation
18
pdf
 
K38f
Understanding Human Caused Climate Change: A Brief History
24
pdf
 
K39
The Key Evidence that Current Climate Change is Human-Caused
47
pdf
YouTube
K40
Climate Denialism - Tactics
38
pdf
 
K40b
The Psychopathologies of Climate Denial
189
pdf
K41
Debunking Climate Denialist Claims (no longer shown in class, due to time constraints)
63
   
K42
Future Climate - 21st Century and Beyond
411
pdf

YouTube
part 1 , part 2

K43
The Thermodynamics of Civilization
393
pdf
Vimeo, from 2023
K44
Strategies: Policy
273
pdf
 
K45
Strategies: Technology
284
pdf
 
K46
Strategies: Geo-Engineering
153
pdf
 

Public Talks of Mine - PowerPoints I Try to Keep Updated

Public Talk
Title
# slides
Video
pdf version
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Climate Change in One (Long) Lecture (for astro 3) 2019 version
361
 
pdf
June 14, 2016
Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise, and Superstorms (on Hansen et al. 2016)
203
 
pdf
Nov 17, 2016
Economic Growth and CO2 - Realism in Climate Policy from the Thermodynamics of Civilization
225
 
pdf
Apr 20, 2017
The New Post-IPCC Climate Science - A Darker Frame for our Options
229
 
pdf
May 24, 2017
Climate Change - the Straight Science, and What to Do About It (short talk to Santa Cruz High School classes)
95
 
pdf
Apr 19, 2018
Our Climate Dilemma - The Political/Economic Agenda vs. the Straight Science (at Tannery Arts Center)
249
 
pdf
Nov 29, 2018 Climate Solutions: A Critical Assessment (at Erica Schilling Auditorium)
390
 
pdf
May 16, 2019 Climate Abandoned: Will Civilization and its Thermodynamics Permit Sustainability and Climate Stability?
271
 
pdf
Nov 7, 2019 Methane - the Larger Context in Climate (brief accompaniment to showing of film documentary "Blowout"
42
YouTube
pdf
Jan 13, 2021 The New Climate Science and Civilization: Is Human Nature Compatible with Solving Climate Change? - to the Monterey CCL
137
Zoom Recording pdf
May 12, 2022 The Economics of Climate Damage: A Critique of William Nordhaus and NeoClassical Econ, Pt 1 112   pdf
May 26, 2022 The Economics of Climate Damage: A Critique of William Nordhaus and NeoClassical Econ, Pt 2 55   pdf
Jun 9, 2022 The Economics of Climate Damage: A Critique of William Nordhaus and NeoClassical Econ, Pt 3 109   pdf
Oct 27, 2022 Civilization as a Thermodynamic System: Implications for Achieving Sustainability 150   pdf
Spr 2023 Civilization as a Thermodynamic System: (video capture of lecture/slides at Cabrillo College)   Vimeo  
         
 

 

Other Climate Science PowerPoints I've Put Together...

* Update to "Merchants of Doubt" Film Shown in our classroom Mar 16, 2016 (need to create, link PDF)
* Anthropogenic Global Warming - A Talk Given Nov 14, 2013 for the Santa Cruz Astronomy Club. It emphasizes debunking climate denial claims
* My intro PowerPoint to the film "Disruption. Climate. Change." Fall 2015.
* My PowerPoint given in a public Panel Discussion with Guy McPherson, NASA's Carol Stoker, and local personality Joe Jordan on 9/28/14. And, updated, to separate it historically from the actual Presentation given at the panel entirely, is here: Future Climate: How Grim Really? debunking the near-term human extinction claims of Guy McPherson
* Dec 2014 - Changing the Future Climate of Earth (this one was cancelled, and better to consult K42-K45 above)
* June 16, 2016 - Public Lecture on the Hansen et al 2016 paper "Ice Sheets, Sea Level Rise, and Super Storms"      
* Nov 17, 2016 - Public Lecture "Economic Growth and CO2 - Realism in Climate Policy from the Thermodynamics of Civilization"
* Apr 20, 2017 - Public Lecture "The New Post-IPCC Climate Science - a Darker Frame for our Options"
* May 20, 2017 - Presentation given to the Central Coast High Schools Coalition of Environmental Clubs at Santa Cruz High, and pdf
* May 24, 2017 - Presentation given to the Santa Cruz High School Biology Classes, and pdf
* Aug 25, 2017 - Presentation given to the NAS Faculty at Cabrillo College and pdf
* Mar 1, 2018 - Rollinson interview slides
* Apr 19, 2018 - Public Lecture "Our Climate Dilemma - The Political/Economic Agenda vs. the Straight Science" - at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz; pdf
* Climate Change in One Streamlined Lecture (90 slides) and pdf

 

Other Climate Related Without PowerPoints
* 2019 Book "Climate Abandoned", which I and other chapter authors have co-authored with Jill Cody
* My WikiPedia entry on The Garrett Relation (Now I refer to this as the "Power/Wealth Relation". Still in limbo until more secondary published research appears on the this relation)
* Dec 3, 2023: I interview Prof. Charles Derber on his new book "Are We Dying for Capitalism?" on KSQD's radio program "Be Bold, America" with Jill Cody


Misc Others

Astro 27 Solar System Formation and ExoPlanets Slide Show