Climate Change and Geoengineering

3 units

Climate change has already begun to impact life on the planet, and will continue in the coming decades. This course covers the fundamentals of how the climate system works, providing an understanding of the mechanisms behind past climate changes and projections for future climate shifts. It explores the methods and evidence that form the basis of our knowledge about climate, and the societal impacts of climate change and various strategies addressing it. The course will contain lectures/content on the associated climate science background, engineering/technological developments to combat the issue, and an exploration of the economics and the inequities that exacerbate the situation, followed by group discussion and synthesis of the different perspectives.