Lec 6 - What Makes a Greenhouse Gas?. 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. For information about the textbook, interactive models, and more, visit: http://forecast.uchicago.edu/
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Lec 3 - Blackbody Radiation & Quantum Mechanics
Lec 4 - Our First Climate Model
Lec 7 - Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
Lec 8 - What Holds the Atmosphere Up?
Lec 10 - Winds, Currents, and Heat
Lec 12 - Ice and Water Vapor Feedbacks
Lec 14 - The Weathering CO2 Thermostat
Lec 15 - The Lungs of the Carbon Cycle
Lec 16 - The Battery of the Biosphere
Lec 19 - The Carbon Cycle Today