Class Id: 8866
Days: TTh
Start Time: 11:00 AM
End Time: 12:20 PM
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Course Id: 3944
Departments and Numbers: ENV 339, GEO 366, WWS 335
Area: STX
Title: Current and Future Climate
Description: This course explores the causes and consequences of human-induced climate change, and the range of potential policy responses. By studying the natural climate system and how it is influenced by human perturbation, we will develop a quantitative understanding of how climate is expected to change in the future as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere. The course also examines scientific themes that should frame any public policy based on risk management, including irreversibility, uncertainty, and surprise. We will also examine the ways in which people, governments and other institutions are actually responding to climate change.
Prerequisites: MAT 101-102 and CHM 201-202, or PHY 101-102, or permission of instructor.
Professors: Michael Oppenheimer
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