Paleoclimate and Global Change
Reading past climates from ice cores, sediments, tree rings and fossils, and what they tell us about future change.
EASC-311 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Earth Sciences
Course content
- 1Climate archives and proxiesComing
- 2Dating climate recordsComing
- 3Deep-time climate: hothouse and icehouse worldsComing
- 4The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal MaximumComing
- 5Cenozoic cooling and the onset of glaciationComing
- 6Orbital forcing and Milankovitch cyclesComing
- 7Ice cores and the glacial cyclesComing
- 8Abrupt climate changeComing
- 9The HoloceneComing
- 10Tree rings, lake sediments and the last millenniumComing
- 11The Anthropocene and sea-level riseComing
- 12Capstone: comparing past warm periods with projectionsComing
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Reading past climates from ice cores, sediments, tree rings and fossils, and what they tell us about future change.
Part of the Science stream, typically taken in year 3.