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 Ni_o, Pacific decadal oscillation, anthropogenic CO2, volcanism, cosmic rays, polar ozone depletion, global climate modeling, stable isotopes, “ice house” Pleisto- cene climates, “greenhouse” climates of the Mesozoic and Tertiary, plate tectonics, and the “snowball” Earth.