Course

Global Warming

The University of Chicago

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.

Course Lectures
  • Scope of the Class
    David Archer

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  • Heat and Light
    David Archer

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  • The Greenhouse Effect
    Joseph Fourier

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  • This clip covers the 3rd passage in the test booklet that students can get from their guidance office. It is a good idea to do the passage first and then watch the video.

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  • Why its Colder Aloft
    David Archer

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  • Six Degrees
    David Archer

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  • Clouds
    David Archer

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  • This clip covers the 3rd passage in the test booklet that students can get from their guidance office. It is a good idea to do the passage first and then watch the video.

  • This clip covers the 3rd passage in the test booklet that students can get from their guidance office. It is a good idea to do the passage first and then watch the video.

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  • Coal and Oil
    David Archer

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  • Oil and Gas
    David Archer

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  • The Carbon Cycle Today
    David Archer

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  • The Long Thaw
    David Archer

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  • The Smoking Gun
    David Archer

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  • Hot, Flat, and Crowded
    David Archer

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