CLIMATE CHANGE: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

A new course today: 

Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions.

It's a free online course and organized by the University of Exeter.

In Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions we’ll be exploring:

Week 1

• The key principles of climate change
  
• The climate system, feedbacks, cycles and self-regulation
  

Week 2

• Ancient past climate change
  
• Recent past climate change
  

Week 3

• Signs of climate change
  
• How is the global carbon cycle changing?
  

Week 4

• Making future projections and modelling future scenarios
  
• The geoengineering dilemma
  

Week 5

• Impacts on land systems - the cryosphere
  
• Impacts on ocean systems - acidification
  

Week 6

• Human health and the built environment
  
• Climate change and food security
  

Week 7

• Mitigation and adaptation
  
• Not in my back yard!
  

Week 8

• Welcome to the Anthropocene
  
• Taking action - reducing our environmental impact