The History and Science of Climate Change

Online
Course Number
ENVS 5310 961
Course Code
ENVS5310961
Course Key
80920
Instructor
Course Note
MES Foundation Env Geology/MSAG Elective|| $150 online course fee in add. to tuition and fee
Course Description
This asynchronous course will provide an understanding of the Earth's climate system and how and why this has changed through time. The emphasis will be placed on spatial and temporal scales in the modern system while exploring the evidence for past change, possible mechanisms to explain these changes and the implications of these changes to past, present and future global climate. Students will learn to reconstruct the history and scales of climate change through the use of proxies; understand the mechanisms that act to drive climate change; show and understanding of the long-term natural climate variability on a global and regional scale; understand the importance of natural environmental change, against which to assess human impacts, recent climate change and issues of future environmental change.
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