Climate change impacts everyone — from record-breaking heat waves, to physical and mental health impacts, to food shortages. Understanding the science behind climate change provides you with the foundational knowledge necessary for taking action in your community and enhancing your career. No matter your age, job, goals, or interests, this course will enable you to meaningfully engage with one of the defining challenges facing humanity today.

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Climate Science for Everyone
Ce cours fait partie de Spécialisation Healthcare Leadership for Climate Change

Instructeur : Prasad Kasibhatla
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Ce que vous apprendrez
Describe the observational evidence for climate change
Explain the physical science basis of climate change
Identify the drivers and trends of greenhouse emissions
Explain how the climate could change in the future
Compétences que vous acquerrez
- Catégorie : Environmental Science
- Catégorie : Environment
- Catégorie : Physical Science
- Catégorie : Trend Analysis
- Catégorie : Climate Change Mitigation
- Catégorie : Social Impact
- Catégorie : Data Collection
- Catégorie : Environmental Policy
- Catégorie : Climate Change Adaptation
- Catégorie : Sustainable Development
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Welcome to Climate Science for Everyone! We’ll begin this week by introducing the course and explaining why understanding climate change science is important to you. Then, we’ll quickly discuss a short history of climate change science. Finally, you will learn about the increase in global average surface temperature since the pre-industrial era in the context of international agreements to limit warming. This will provide foundational knowledge for the rest of the course material.
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This week, you will learn about the energy balance of the earth system and how the increase in global average temperature since the pre-industrial era can be explained in terms of changes in this energy balance.
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This week, you will learn about how human activities have changed the atmospheric concentrations of the two main greenhouse gasses, carbon dioxide and methane. We will also touch on how the atmospheric concentration of anthropogenic sulfate aerosols, which have offset some of the warming from greenhouse gasses, is changing because of pollution control measures.
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This week, you will learn how global average surface temperature will evolve over the course of this century under various greenhouse gas emission scenarios. Additionally, we will give you a chance to reflect on what you’ve learned in the course and how you can take action to help with climate change both personally and professionally.
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Every politician, every leader should takes this course. It should be mandatory. Thank you so much!
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