OSHER 873 - Climate Change: Where We Are, How We Got Here, and Now What Do We Do?

Climate change has received a lot of attention from all sorts of people and interest groups---so much so that many of us are just plain confused. Is our climate really changing? If so, what is causing it---the sun, natural cycles, people, volcanoes? And if it really is changing, what (if anything) can we do about it? This course will attempt to give the answers to those questions with an emphasis on science and a de-emphasis on politics so that class members can have the information they need to make up their own minds on how to approach the subject.