Day 19, Mat128: Calculus A

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Announcements:
- We will have a help session Friday, 2:00-3:15.
- Next Monday we're going to be working on Section 2.7: Implicit Differentiation -- please read ahead, and do the preview.
- Today we welcome Mr. Peter Prengaman, Climate and Environmental news director for the Associated Press; as well as Mark Neikirk of the Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement at NKU.
  - I'll start with a short presentation about some climate change issues
  - Then we'll turn things over to Mr. Prengaman, to lead a discussion. But all good discussions require participation!:) Please chime in.
  - Afterwards (perhaps next class) we'll examine several mathematical models to acccount for the early blooming of the Cherry blossoms in our nation's capital. (This example inspired by a recent article in the climate press.)
- Mr. Prengaman will give a public lecture tonight (Wednesday) evening, 6-7:30 pm, in the Griffin Hall Digitorium, entitled Covering Climate.
Let's get started!
- Presentation: The Calculus of Climate Change
- Discussion (I'll ask our guests begin by introducing themselves, and maybe share their particular interest in climate change)
- Case Study: Early Blooming of the cherry trees in the nation's capital
Links:
- Climate Resources provided by Mr. Prengaman:
  - Here is a hub that has almost all climate and environment stories in real time.
  - Here is a hub with one our our main series, on climate migration, which will be discussed.
  - A big project around the Colorado River.
  - And an explanatory series called "Climate Questions", also to be discussed.
- Credits for the presentation:
  - Berkeley Earth: Global Temperature (and models) for 2022
  - UC San Diego and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography: The Keeling Curve
  - Foote, Eunice. On the Heat in the Sun's Rays. The American Journal of Science and Arts (B. Silliman; B Silliman, Jr.; and J. Dana, Eds.), Vol. 22, pp. 382-383. November, 1856.
  - BBC: Tyndall's climate message, 150 years on
  - NOAA: Climate Change: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
  - NOAA: Ocean Acidification, along with some graphs and data:
    - NOAA: with Keeling data, and CO₂ pressure
    - Smithsonian: with models
  - Sea-level/coastal damage:
    - Washington Post: House tumbling into the ocean in North Carolina
    - The Guardian: Oceanfront homes crumble in California as torrential rains lead to landslides
  - National Geographic: Phenological Change

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