Prerequisites: PHYS 002C or PHYS 040C or consent of instructor
Description: Explores global climate change in historic and geologic time scales. Topics include ocean-atmosphere feedbacks, El Niño, Pacific decadal oscillation, anthropogenic CO2, vol- canism, cosmic rays, polar ozone depletion, global cli- mate modeling, stable isotopes, “ice house” Pleistocene climates, “greenhouse” climates of the Mesozoic and Tertiary, plate tectonics, and the “snow- ball” Earth.