METEO 7An Introduction to Climate Sciences: Climate change, Variability, and Society

3 credits · Meteorology · Penn State

This course provides an overview of factors that serve as the basis for understanding climate change and climate variability. METEO 007: An Introduction to Climate Science: Climate Change, Climate Variability, and Society use an interdisciplinary scientific approach to provide a foundation for understanding the climate system. This course considers changes in the physical climate system over Earth System. It provides insights on past and present climate variability; anthropogenic forcing and their sources; climate feedbacks; climate model projections during the 21st century; impacts of climate change on society; environmental and climate justice; treaties, protocols and policies to address adaption, mitigation of greenhouse gases and geoengineering.