Global Warming (PHSC 13400) UChicago
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This 10-week course for non-science majors focuses on a single problem: assessing the risk of human-caused climate change. The story ranges from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics, to economics and social sciences.
The class will consider evidence from the distant past and projections into the distant future, keeping the human time scale of the next several centuries as the bottom line. The lectures follow a textbook, "Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast," written
for the course.
Resources: Opencourseware from UChicago, MIT, UC Berkeley,Stanford, Yale, U of Mich along with many of the World's finest University's and other educators.
Learning method: the textbook, interactive models, and more, visit: http://forecast.uchicago.edu/
Language: English
Professors: Michael Williams
Units: 23
Lesson content
- Lec 1 - Scope of the Class
- Lec 2 - Heat and Light
- Lec 3 - Blackbody Radiation & Quantum Mechanics
- Lec 4 - Our First Climate Model
- Lec 5 - The Greenhouse Effect
- Lec 6 - What Makes a Greenhouse Gas?
- Lec 7 - Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
- Lec 8 - What Holds the Atmosphere Up?
- Lec 9 - Why its Colder Aloft
- Lec 10 - Winds, Currents, and Heat
- Lec 11 - Six Degrees
- Lec 12 - Ice and Water Vapor Feedbacks
- Lec 13 - Clouds
- Lec 14 - The Weathering CO2 Thermostat
- Lec 15 - The Lungs of the Carbon Cycle
- Lec 16 - The Battery of the Biosphere
- Lec 17 - Coal and Oil
- Lec 18 - Oil and Gas
- Lec 19 The Carbon Cycle Today
- Lec 20 - The Long Thaw
- Lec 21 - The Smoking Gun
- Lec 22 - The Present in the Bosom of the Past
- Lec 23 - Hot, Flat, and Crowded
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