The Climate-Energy Challenge

This course from Harvard is a great primer to understand how scientists determine that climate change is happening. In a sense, it goes beyond the pop sci presented on TED talks or in the media. You will get a sense of the incredibly complex interactions at play between the planetary systems. I think an understanding of high-school physics and chemistry is more than enough to understand most of the concepts presented. I am a Master's student and I finished the course in under two weeks, as in the self-paced mode. Prof. Schrag does a great job in explaining the complex concepts. My only complaint with this course is that the lack of a discussion forum. I always found that engaging with other learners and exchanging viewpoints only reinforces what you learned. Other than that, it was a great course. I got introduced to so many new concepts in climatology and geology, and also the famed scientists in those fields who made groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of anthropogenic climate change.