Assignments are below – Unless otherwise indicated your project should include a well-written and well-resourced paper (3-5 pages long). You need a complete bibliography.
Those of you that have the same questions should have very different papers. Papers are due Dec 2nd.
Matthew – Recommend which sources and sinks should be regulated to decrease greenhouse gas concentrations for carbon dioxide. Note briefly how the regulations will be implemented at the personal, national, and/or global level. Thoroughly justify your answers by including quantitative and qualitative information from all parts of the global warming module and your individual research. Also include chemistry concepts such as IR spectra, gas concentrations, temperature trends, and chemical reactions to provide support for you regulations.
Rebecca – Recommend which sources and sinks should be regulated to decrease greenhouse gas concentrations for methane. Note briefly how the regulations will be implemented at the personal, national, and/or global level. Thoroughly justify your answers by including quantitative and qualitative information from all parts of the global warming module and your individual research. Also include chemistry concepts such as IR spectra, gas concentrations, temperature trends, and chemical reactions to provide support for you regulations.
Kevin – Recommend which sources and sinks should be regulated to decrease greenhouse gas concentrations for nitrous oxide. Note briefly how the regulations will be implemented at the personal, national, and/or global level. Thoroughly justify your answers by including quantitative and qualitative information from all parts of the global warming module and your individual research. Also include chemistry concepts such as IR spectra, gas concentrations, temperature trends, and chemical reactions to provide support for you regulations.
Audrey - Use the information from your classroom activities, this module, and your individual literature research to reach a conclusion on the issue “What should we do about global warming?”. Write a public opinion piece to communicate your opinions to the public. It could be a letter to the editor of your college or local paper, a letter to a public official, a video segment on global warming, or a cartoon for the campus paper. Be creative in the forum you choose, but realize that these need to be informational in order to be persuasive. Your teacher will provide you with clear guidelines and expectations for the evaluation of this project, given the range of presentation possibilities.
Kathryn – You are a member of a consulting firm. Prepare a report advising your country on how best to solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions. How will you meet your country’s global obligations according to the Kyoto Protocol? What policies could they adopt to effectively cut emissions? What emerging technologies might they be interested in? Present two or three policy options and emerging technologies that could be used to decrease each individual greenhouse gas to the needed levels. Feel free to explain what policies and technologies would not be effective in the country’s society. Include appropriate references.
Noah – The GCSU Student Government Association recently heard a proposition regarding a green fee. The Green Fee would collect an “extra $5 for each student per semester. Money will go to recycling, installing energy meters in each building, and increasing energy efficiency.” Prepare a position paper in favor of the green fee. Specifically address how this $5 fee could effect the CO2 emissions, from the university. Include an estimation of current CO2 contribution from the university’s energy consumption and an estimation of the money that would be collected each year.
Grace - The GCSU Student Government Association recently heard a proposition regarding a green fee. The Green Fee would collect an “extra $5 for each student per semester. Money will go to recycling, installing energy meters in each building, and increasing energy efficiency.” Prepare a position paper in opposition to the green fee. Specifically address how this $5 fee could effect the CO2 emissions, from the university. Include an estimation of current CO2 contribution from the university’s energy consumption and an estimation of the money that would be collected each year. Suggest alternative schemes for reducing the CO2 emissions from campus energy use.
Lindsey, – Use the information from your classroom activities, this module, and your individual literature research to reach a conclusion on the issue “What should we do about global warming?”. Write a public opinion piece to communicate your opinions to the public. It could be a letter to the editor of your college or local paper, a letter to a public official, a video segment on global warming, or a cartoon for the campus paper. Be creative in the forum you choose, but realize that these need to be informational in order to be persuasive. Your teacher will provide you with clear guidelines and expectations for the evaluation of this project, given the range of presentation possibilities.
Rachael – Use the information from your classroom activities, this module, and your individual literature research to reach a conclusion on the issue “What should we do about global warming?”. Write a public opinion piece to communicate your opinions to the public. It could be a letter to the editor of your college or local paper, a letter to a public official, a video segment on global warming, or a cartoon for the campus paper. Be creative in the forum you choose, but realize that these need to be informational in order to be persuasive. Your teacher will provide you with clear guidelines and expectations for the evaluation of this project, given the range of presentation possibilities.
Janet – You are a member of a consulting firm. Prepare a report advising your country on how best to solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions. How will you meet your country’s global obligations according to the Kyoto Protocol? What policies could they adopt to effectively cut emissions? What emerging technologies might they be interested in? Present two or three policy options and emerging technologies that could be used to decrease each individual greenhouse gas to the needed levels. Feel free to explain what policies and technologies would not be effective in the country’s society. Include appropriate references.
