Learn about assessing the risk of human-induced climate change. The story extends from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics and quantum mechanics to economics and social sciences
About the course
The University of Chicago offers a free online course on global warming.
This 10-week course for non-scientific disciplines focuses on one problem: assessing the risk of human-induced climate change. The story extends from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics and quantum mechanics to economics and social sciences. The chapter will look at evidence of the distant past and the outlook for the distant future, while maintaining the human time scale for the next several centuries as a baseline. The lectures follow a textbook entitled "Global Warming and Understanding Expectations" written for the course.
The lectures
Lecture 1: Scope of the Cl
Lecture 2: Heat and Light
Lecture 3: Blackbody Radiation & Quantum Mechanics
Lecture 4: Our First Climate Model
Lecture 5: The Greenhouse Effect
Lecture 6: What Makes a Greenhouse Gas?
Lecture 7: Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
Lecture 8: What Holds the Atmosphere Up?
Lecture 9: Why its Colder Aloft
Lecture 10: Winds, Currents, and Heat
Lecture 11: Six Degrees
Lecture 12: Ice and Water Vapor Feedbacks
Lecture 13: Clouds
Lecture 14: The Weathering CO2 Thermostat
Lecture 15: The Lungs of the Carbon Cycle
Lecture 16: The Battery of the Biosphere
Lecture 17: Coal and Oil
Lecture 18: Oil and Gas
Lecture 19: The Carbon Cycle Today
Lecture 20: The Long Thaw
Lecture 21: The Smoking Gun
Lecture 22: The Present in the Bosom of the Past
Lecture 23: Hot, Flat, and Crowded
About the University of Chicago:
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1890, the school is located on a 217-acre (88 hectare) campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. The University of Chicago is among the ten best universities in the world. The University consists of the University College as well as many postgraduate programs and multidisciplinary committees organized in five departments of academic research.
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