ACC 3010

The course will introduce the energy budget balance for the Earth's climate system, the greenhouse effects and global warming, how human activities contribute to global warming, and the main climate feedback loops. Students will also be introduced to global climate models and regional climate models, as well as some simple climate models to help understand the causal effects of increasing greenhouse emissions on global warming. The course will also examine greenhouse gas emissions scenarios and their driving of climate models as well as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Emission Scenarios and the new approaches to future scenarios.