Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions
This course aims to explain the science of climate change, the risks it poses and the solutions available to reduce those risks.
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3 hours
Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions
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The course is aimed at the level of students entering university, and seeks to provide an inter-disciplinary introduction to what is a broad field. It engages a number of experts from the University of Exeter and a number of partner organisations.
The course will set contemporary human-caused climate change within the context of past nature climate variability. Then it will take a risk communication approach, balancing the ‘bad news’ about climate change impacts on natural and human systems with the ‘good news’ about potential solutions. These solutions can help avoid the most dangerous climate changes and increase the resilience of societies and ecosystems to those climate changes that cannot be avoided.
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Who is the course for?
No previous experience or qualifications required.
Who will you learn with?
Professor Tim Lenton is Chair in Climate Change/Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on understanding the behaviour of the Earth as a whole system.
Graduate from the University of Exeter.
PhD student in Marine Biology and course facilitator. I'm investigating the impacts of ocean acidification on marine invertebrate early life stages.
Senior Lecturer at The University of Exeter specialising in Glaciology, GIS and Remote Sensing
Educator on Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions
Find me on twitter @DamienMansell
I am an MSc research postgraduate, using biogeochemical modelling to investigate factors affecting climate and the carbon cycle over the past 600 million years.
Lecturer at Leeds University researching the impacts of climate change on our world
Course producer for University of Exeter Global Systems Institute
@LiamTaylorIce
Who developed the course?
University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a Russell Group university. It combines world-class research with very high levels of student satisfaction.
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