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The University of Chicago

Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change

The University of Chicago via Coursera

Overview

This class describes the science of global warming and the forecast for humans’ impact on Earth’s climate. Intended for an audience without much scientific background but a healthy sense of curiosity, the class brings together insights and perspectives from physics, chemistry, biology, earth and atmospheric sciences, and even some economics—all based on a foundation of simple mathematics (algebra).

Taught by

David Archer

Reviews

4.4 rating, based on 8 Class Central reviews

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  • Sara J. Carvajal is taking this course right now, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

    It has a great content and the teacher gives good explanations but in the quizzes you have to use climate models from certain websites and if you have a very slow internet connection (like me) sometimes they just don't work, that means you don't have the answer to the questions and that is frustrating.
  • Ghazi Akbar
    Can someone who completed this course about the answer of quiz of week #12

    Q: How many wegdes ??

    I am struck here for one week just a single question remaining
  • James Ghaffari completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be hard.

    This is a great course for the non-scientist to understand the scientific mechanism and models behind climate change. I requires quite a bit of work but the lecturer explains things extremely well. Overall, some of the quizzes could be better thought through but this is a very good MOOC.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    I am very intereston know about the climate changes of our earth since I learn and discover great things that wr dont know about our planet. Sincerely yours Vivi de Deleon.
  • HERNANDO MANTILLA GAITÁN

    HERNANDO MANTILLA GAITÁN completed this course, spending 5 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

    I am an environmental engineer from Colombia and I wish to complement the updated technical information for the topic of global warming
  • David Lee Frank is taking this course right now.

  • Samuel

    Samuel is taking this course right now, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.

    This course is so helpful and well prepared to aid easy laerning. I found the quizzes so helpful too and the tests at the end of the session
  • Vijaysinh Jadhav

    Vijaysinh Jadhav completed this course.

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