First-Year Seminar: Unearthing the Science of Climate Change

EARTH, ENVIRONMENTAL & PLANETARY SCIENCE 141

How and why does climate change? How does the climate system interact with human systems? This course investigates the scientific principles of Earth's ever-changing climate, with a special focus on the present-day. Topics include Earth's energy balance; the components of the climate system; natural and anthropogenic causes of climate change; climate change detection and attribution; weather extremes; and climate adaptation/vulnerability in past and present human societies.

Course Attributes: FA NSM; FYS; BU SCI; AR NSM; AS NSM

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First-Year Seminar: Unearthing the Science of Climate Change

INSTRUCTOR: Limbeck

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