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Earth's Changing Climate

Written by: Richard Wolfson, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Richard Wolfson
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In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-representing a global consensus of hundreds of scientists-concluded that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal," citing observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level.

And they noted that human activity is "very likely" the cause. Whatever your views on climate change, it's important to understand how the current scientific consensus on global warming evolved out of basic physical principles and a broad range of observations.

This lucid series of twelve lectures is designed to do exactly that-reviewing the most up-to-date research and explaining the concepts, tools, data, and analysis that have led an overwhelming number of climate scientists to conclude that Earth is indeed warming and that we humans are in great part responsible.

In clear and accessible lectures designed for nonscientists, you'll learn about the "fingerprints" of global climate change-ranging from borehole temperatures to melting glaciers to the altered behavior of plant and animal species and other indicators-that convince scientists that our Earth has been warming at an unprecedented rate in recent decades. The lectures address only scientific issues and make no policy recommendations. Instead, they have been designed to serve as your personal scientific briefing to equip you to engage knowledgeably in one of the most important environmental issues of our time.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2007 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2007 The Great Courses
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An excellent, if dated, snapshot of climate change

Since this course was released in 2013, a lot has changed. Parts of this course would benefit greatly from an update and re-release, in my opinion. The fields of photovoltaics, wind turbines, electric cars, battery storage, and fusion have all come a long way since this was first recorded.

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Good material, rushed performance

really fascinating topics and interesting material but he spoke so fast that it was a little difficult to think about what he was saying as he raced from point to point.

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No reference material.

Professor Wolfson refers to graphs that are not available to the audible customer. Much is lost in the failure to provide appropriate material.

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