Важная информация
Резюме
This course views climate change from a variety of perspectives at the intersection of the natural sciences, technology, and the social sciences and humanities.
Программа
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
Пользователи
- Richard Somerville
- Veerabhadran Ramanathan
- David Victor - IR/PS
- Charles Kennel
- Naomi Oreskes
Разработчик

L' Université de Californie à San Diego est une université publique de recherche sur les concessions de terres à San Diego, en Californie. Établi en 1960 près de la Scripps Institution of Oceanography préexistante, l'UC San Diego est le plus méridional des dix campus de l' Université de Californie et offre plus de 200 programmes menant à un diplôme de premier cycle et des cycles supérieurs, recrutant 33 096 étudiants de premier cycle et 9 872 étudiants des cycles supérieurs.
L'UC San Diego est considérée comme l'une des meilleures universités au monde. Plusieurs publications ont classé les départements de sciences biologiques et d'informatique de l'UC San Diego parmi les 10 meilleurs au monde.
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