Climate Change in Four Dimensions

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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

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

  • Richard Somerville
  • Veerabhadran Ramanathan
  • David Victor - IR/PS
  • Charles Kennel
  • Naomi Oreskes

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