Coursera - Climate Change in Four Dimensions
Coursera - Climate Change in Four Dimensions
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Genre: Climate Change | Language: English | Subtitles: English
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Genre: Climate Change | Language: English | Subtitles: English
Climate Change in Four Dimensions
This course views climate change from a variety of perspectives at the intersection of the natural sciences, technology, and the social sciences and humanities.
About the Course
This course views climate change from a variety of perspectives at the intersection of the natural sciences, technology, and the social sciences and humanities.
Specific topics included are:
the scientific basis for human-induced climate change, including uncertainties and controversies, the historical context for identifying the climate problem, links to other issues such as air pollution, and the evidence for extreme as well as irreversible climate changes;
communication and social responses to the scientific evidence, including the role of science in the media;
assessment of climate impacts and adaptive management; and
mitigation of emissions, including the design of national policy instruments, the roles of market failures such as in technological innovation, and the role of institutions in managing international collective action.
Course 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
Recommended Background
The course is designed for individuals with previous collegiate experience, and will be taught in an online lecture format. There are no specific background requirements and everyone is welcome. It will be helpful to you if you have experience in interpreting data as well as graphic representations of data and to have a familiarity with basic principles of natural and physical science.
Coursera - Climate Change in Four Dimensions
Coursera - Climate Change in Four Dimensions
Coursera - Climate Change in Four Dimensions
Coursera - Climate Change in Four Dimensions
Coursera - Climate Change in Four Dimensions
Coursera - Climate Change in Four Dimensions
