Prior-To-Course: For science background: Dr. John Houghton's Lecture http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/cis/houghton/ For international policy background: Beginners Guide to the Convention: http://www.unfccc.int/resource/beginner.html For technology background: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: http://www.eren.doe.gov/ For economic background The economics of Climate Change: A Primer (Chap 3 and 4) Economics_Global _change.pdf For Lecture 2 Climate and global warming  http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/climate.html Emissions and global warming http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/emissions.html For Lecture 3 Global warming impacts http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/impacts.html more advanced reading (Optional) summary.policy.impacts.pdf For Lecture 4 Global pollution http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/pollution/pollutiontrends.jsp http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20020204005723data_trunc_sys.shtml Pollution and Water http://www.useu.be/Categories/Evironment/Dec1001AerosolPollutionWater.html For Lecture 5 Alternative Energy: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: http://www.eren.doe.gov/  For Lecture 6 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: http://www.unfccc.de/ Kyoto Protocol http://www.cfr.org/public/pubs/kyoto.html  For Lecture 7 The economics of Climate Change: A Primer (Chap 3 and 4) Economics_Global _change.pdf