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This course views climate change from a variety of perspectives at the intersection of the natural sciences, technology, and the social sciences and humanities.

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Syllabus

Below you will find the course topics for each week. You will have access to a more detailed syllabus on the course start date.
 

This course has 19 lessons, weekly activities, a mid-term, and a final exam. The topics are as follows:

Week 1: Basic Science of Climate Change

  • Lesson 1: Climate Change Science: History, Foundations, Detection, Attribution
  • Lesson 2: How Much Will Climate Change? Climate Models and Sensitivity

Week 2: The Nature of Scientific Knowledge

  • Lesson 3: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change:
    How Do We Know We’re Not Wrong? Part 1
  • Lesson 4: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change:
    How Do We Know We’re Not Wrong? Part 2

Week 3: Climate Change Mitigation

  • Lesson 5: Physics and chemistry of climate mitigation
  • Lesson 6: Why Climate is an International Problem

Week 4: International dimensions of climate change

  • Lesson 7: International Cooperation on the Ozone Layer:
    A Useful Model?
  • Lesson 8: International Cooperation on Climate Change:
    Models for Reform (with a Focus on Mitigation)

Week 5: The Impacts of Climate Change

  • Lesson 9: Extreme weather, climate change and communication 
  • Lesson 10: Impacts of Climate Change

Week 6: What may be in store for the world?

  • Mid-term
  • Lesson 11: Coping with Climate Change in the Next Half-Century  

Week 7: How the public views climate change

  • Lesson 12: Merchants of Doubt, Part 1
  • Lesson 13: Merchants of Doubt, Part 2

Week 8: How regions are preparing to adapt

  • Lesson 14: Ice, Snow, and Water
  • Lesson 15: Arctic and California Climate Change Assessments

Week 9: What we can do, Part 1

  • Lesson 16: What if climate change turns ugly? The Pros and Cons of Geoengineering.
  • Lesson 17: Technology Innovation (With a Focus on Energy)

Week 10: What we can do, Part 2

  • Lesson 18: It’s Not Too Late to Mitigate
  • Lesson 19: Avoid the Unmanageable, Manage the Unavoidable
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Instructors

  • Richard Somerville
  • Veerabhadran Ramanathan
  • David Victor - IR/PS
  • Charles Kennel
  • Naomi Oreskes
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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is the southernmost of the University of California's ten campuses and offers more than 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, enrolling 33,096 undergraduate students and 9,872 graduate students. 

UC San Diego is considered one of the best universities in the world. Several publications have ranked UC San Diego's Departments of Biological Sciences and Computer Science among the top 10 in the world.

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Coursera is a digital company offering massive open online course founded by computer teachers Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller Stanford University, located in Mountain View, California. 

Coursera works with top universities and organizations to make some of their courses available online, and offers courses in many subjects, including: physics, engineering, humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, mathematics, business, computer science, digital marketing, data science, and other subjects.

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