The Climate-Energy Challenge
Offered By: Harvard University via edX
Course Description
Overview
This course will examine future climate change in the context of Earth history, and then consider various strategies for what might be done to deal with it. The likely impact of continued greenhouse gas emissions will be explored, emphasizing the scientific uncertainties associated with various predictions, and how this can be understood in the context of risk.
Syllabus
- Week 0: Introduction
- Week 1: Earth's Radiation Budget
- Week 2: The Great Anthropogenic Experiment
- Week 3: The Past is Key to the Future I
- Week 4: The Past is Key to the Future II
- Week 5: Deeper Back in Time I
- Week 6: Deeper Back in Time II
- Week 7: Natural Variability and Predicting the Future I
- Week 8: Natural Variability and Predicting the Future II
- Week 9: Introduction to Our Energy System and Energy Scenarios
Taught by
Daniel P. Schrag
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