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PHSC 13400: Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast (Fall 2009, UChicago). Taught by Professor David Archer
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
638 years, 9 months
Units & Quizzes
23
Unlimited Lifetime access
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Certificate of Completion
this course presents the science behind the forecast of global warming to enable the student to evaluate the likelihood and potential severity of anthropogenic climate change in the coming centuries. It includes an overview of the physics of the greenhouse effect, including comparisons with Venus and Mars; an overview of the carbon cycle in its role as a global thermostat; predictions and reliability of climate model forecasts of the greenhouse world
Course Currilcum
- Lecture 01 – Scope of the Class Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – Heat and Light Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – Blackbody Radiation & Quantum Mechanics Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – Our First Climate Model Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – The Greenhouse Effect Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – What Makes a Greenhouse Gas? Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – What Holds the Atmosphere Up? Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – Why It’s Colder Aloft Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Winds, Currents, and Heat Unlimited
- Lecture 11 – Six Degrees Unlimited
- Lecture 12 – Ice and Water Vapor Feedbacks Unlimited
- Lecture 13 – Clouds Unlimited
- Lecture 14 – The Weathering CO2 Thermostat Unlimited
- Lecture 15 – The Lungs of the Carbon Cycle Unlimited
- Lecture 16 – The Battery of the Biosphere Unlimited
- Lecture 17 – Coal and Oil Unlimited
- Lecture 18 – Oil and Gas Unlimited
- Lecture 19 – The Carbon Cycle Today Unlimited
- Lecture 20 – The Long Thaw Unlimited
- Lecture 21 – The Smoking Gun Unlimited
- Lecture 22 – The Present in the Bosom of the Past Unlimited
- Lecture 23 – Hot, Flat, and Crowded Unlimited
