Personal Course Archive and Reflections

Personal Course Archive and Reflections (otherwise known as blogging) please do it around 400 words for each question, there are totally two questions. 4 reading sources should be used for each question. and i will list the reading sources to the following questions. you must use the given readings instead of yours. First question: what is climate change and what are its known effects? Frank Incropera Climate Change: A Wicked Problem (2015) Climate Change: A Wicked Problem Chapter Five Climate Change: A Wicked Problem Chapter Eleven Tony Birch 2016 ‘Human Rights, Colonisation and Destruction of Country’, Medium.com, July 27 https://medium.com/@tonybirch/human-rights-colonisation-and-destruction-of-country-a2c607ac3426 On the science of climate science NASA (n.d.) ‘Causes’, Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet, http://climate.nasa.gov/causes/ Chris Woodford (2015) ‘Global warming and climate change’, Explainthatstuff!, http://www.explainthatstuff.com/globalwarmingforkids.html (Global warming for kids—it’s actually quite good) Simple explanations: https://simpleclimate.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/pick-the-best-simple-climate-change-explanation/ Sarah Grey (2015 )’6 Ways Climate Change Will Drastically Change Your Everyday Life’, Attn, August 1, http://www.attn.com/stories/2504/how-climate-change-will-affect-everyday-life Daniel Stone (2013) ‘6 Ways Climate Change Will Affect You’, National Geographic, January 15, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/pictures/130115-climate-change-superstorm-atmosphere-science/ Eric Roston and Blacki Migliozzi (2015) ‘What’s really warming the world?’, Bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/ (very good data use of data visualization) Andrew Freedman (2016) ‘The climate that most of us grew up with is gone for good’, Mashable, July 23, http://mashable.com/2016/07/20/climate-of-20th-century-gone-for-good/#_dgX5nsa55qL Second question: The roles of media and communications in climate change: playing our part, rethinking our ‘roles’. George Monbiot: If humanity fails to prevent climate breakdown, the industry that bears the greatest responsibility is not transport, farming, gas, oil or even coal. All of them can behave as they do, shunting us towards systemic collapse, only with a social licence to operate. The problem begins with the industry that, wittingly or otherwise, grants them this licence: the one for which I work. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/climate-crisis-media-relegates-greatest-challenge-hurtle-us-collapse-planet Bill Moyers: Reporting the truth is always the basis for any moral authority we can claim as journalists. Reporting the truth about climate disruption, and its solutions, could be contagious. […] With no silver bullet, what do we do? We cooperate as kindred spirits on a mission of public service. We create partnerships to share resources. We challenge media owners and investors to act in the public interest. We keep the whole picture in our heads — how melting ice sheets in the Arctic can create devastation in the Midwest — and connect the dots for our readers, viewers, and listeners. We look every day at photographs of our children and grandchildren, to be reminded of the stakes. And we tell the liars, deniers, and do-nothings to shove off: There’s no future in naysaying.