Climate Change & Adapt Science.

Catalog description

This course explores the science of climate change through evidence for changes in global atmospheric circulation, water, heat, and heat transfer, air/sea interactions, global water cycle, ocean temperature, sea level and acidity due to global warming changes. Students will learn how the climate system works; what factors cause climate to change across different time scales and how those factors interact; how climate has changed in the past; how scientists use models, observations and theory to make predictions about future climate; and the possible consequences of climate change for our planet. Finally, the course looks at the connection between human activity and the current warming trend and considers some of the potential social, economic and environmental consequences of climate change.