These changes will accelerate over the next few decades
In this subject you will explore the impacts of climate change; why we should care about them, the science that underpins our understanding and how we can fix the problem before it’s too late.
What will you learn?
- Why human activities are changing the climate
- How our knowledge of science underpins what we know about the past, present and future climate
- What our future might hold, and why we should care about it
- Why an increase of 2 or 4°C in global average temperature is important
- How the changing climate is affecting, and will continue to affect, the incidence and impacts of extreme weather events
- The role of extreme events and the effect it has on our species, ecosystems, coastlines, food supply, health, infrastructure, economy and security
- How climate change is likely to exacerbate existing problems of social inequality
- How climate change will interact with other pressures on global systems such as ecosystem degradation and human population growth
- Why fixing the climate problem is urgent, and how the timing of solutions is critical
- The relative contributions that different emission reduction solutions have had on solving the climate problem