GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

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This course will examine contemporary scientific thought on the cycles of climate change, understanding of past climate conditions, the current state of the atmosphere, and predictions for future change and adaptation strategies. Close emphasis will be placed on evidence for climate change through cultural evidence for change (journals, historical documents) as well as physical evidence and proxies (tree rings, fossils, ice cores, sediments). Past periods of climate change will be analyzed in order to understand how life was affected during those events as well as to set the context to better understand current and future climate trends. (NSW, NSW-N)