As a powerful show once sang, “We are all earthlings spinning around together, on a planet of the sun.” This course focuses on modern-day climate change, and, more fundamentally, how amazing this planet is and how we are all connected. We are causing global warming, and this leads to widespread environmental changes that are forcing us to re-think how we live on our planet. Behold the Keeling Curve – the ultimate emblem of the modern-day carbon cycle and a key element of ESCI 3101.
The Keeling Curve showing current CO2 concentration in our atmosphere.
How warm is it now? Too warm.