Confronting Climate Change

Harvard FAS

This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of climate change, including theradiation budget of the Earth, the carbon cycle, and the physics and chemistry of the oceans and atmosphere. We will look at reconstructions of climate change through Earth history to provide a context for thinking about present and future changes. We will take a critical look at climate models used to predict climate change…