Students will learn about climate change, climate projections and mitigation strategies. Student will analyze climate data and future scenario models, evaluate potential climate change and impacts on the Earth system (warming, rainfall), explore mitigation strategies, costs, barriers and benefits (changes in lifestyle, negative emissions, solar radiation management etc.). The course will introduce students to climate data analysis using Jupyter Notebooks.

This course introduces solid Earth system science, quantifying underlying physical and chemical processes to study the formation and evolution of Earth through time. We discuss how these processes create and sustain habitable conditions on Earth, including feedbacks and tipping points as recorded in the geologic record. Topics include stellar and planetary formation, plate tectonics, seismology, minerals/rocks, the geologic timescale, natural resources, the hydrologic cycle and sedimentation, paleoclimatology, and the "Anthropocene." Students will apply these topics to the recent past to assess human impact on the environment.