Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Description
Framework of climate science, Earth’s climate system today, climate archives, CO2, plate tectonics and long-term climate, Greenhouse to lcehouse climates, astronomical control of solar radiation, lnsolation control of monsoon and ice sheets, orbital-scale interactions, feedbacks and unsolved mysteries in long term climate change. The last glacial maximum, climate during and since the last deglaciation; Holocene climate optimum and beginning of ancient civilizations; Impact of climate change on ancient civilizations; humans and pre- industrial climate, climate changes during the last millennium; climate change since 1850 from observational records, causes of warming over the last 125 years, future climate change.