Description
This course looks at climate change in a new way – through the lens of climate engineering, the idea of deliberately trying to modify the climate to counteract the changes we’re observing and predict will happen in the future.
Some of the questions you’ll be studying are: How would you design the perfect climate? How could we control Earth’s climate? How would we predict the consequences of our actions, or even know if they were working as we expected? How would different countries collaborate or compete? What would we as a society be trying to preserve – and what would we be willing to risk?
To answer these questions you will learn some of the science and mathematics involved in measuring, predicting and potentially controlling climate change. You will also consider the context in which that science exists: the political and ethical issues, the deep challenges of communicating and managing climate risks using incomplete evidence, and the influence of competing priorities and values. By considering exactly what we want for our planet’s climate, and what we would be willing to sacrifice to get there, climate engineering has the potential to help us find more clarity in our search for solutions.
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