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Turn Down the Heat and Turn Up the Optimism- This remains an excellent intro to climate science

TURN DOWN THE HEAT! Sorry. We only have one Earth! We must not do the experiment! THIS IS A COURSE CRITIQUE MORPHING INTO A CLIMATE SCIENCE ESSAY FOR THE INTERESTED LAYMAN.  IF YOU ARE CLIMATE  SCIENCE LITERATE AND MOTIVATED TO UNDERSTAND CLIMATE SCIENCE, SKIP THIS ESSAY AND GO THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   TRANSCRIPT "CLIMATE CHANGE STATEMENT REVIEW WORKSHOP"  ( click any underlined words in this essay for link to more information ) FOR THEIR THOROUGH INVESTIGATION OF CLIMATE SCIENCE CLAIMS AND UNCERTAINTIES.  LESS THAN SCIENCE LITERATE AND NUMERATE- STAY HERE! First a word about climate science- It's not rocket science!  It's much more complex!  I 'll try to make some of those complexities comprehensible. And next- here's the problem- We will examine the above discrepancy between the climate model projections of significant or catastrophic warming and the actual observations- the actual global warming observed. The Wor...