Climate Change, Risks and Challenges (#ClimateCourse)
Climate Change, Risks and Challenges (#ClimateCourse)
Autor*innen: | DKK and WWF | ||
Anbietende Hochschule: | Technische Hochschule Lübeck | ||
Kurssprache: | Englisch | ||
Wissensgebiet: | Naturwissenschaften | Kostenfrei | |
Durchschnittlicher Arbeitsaufwand: | 45 Stunden | Kostenfrei | Einschreiben |
Was können Sie in diesem Kurs lernen?
- By enrolling and actively participating in the course, you will acquire a sound basic understanding of the climate system and climate change, and the associated complex contexts.
- You will learn to distinguish between natural and anthropogenic (man-made) impacts on the climate system and the natural climate fluctuations. This distinction is important to be able to better assess the causes of climate change.
- You will learn to categorise the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on nature and society correctly.
- You will also get an overview of the available options for action.
- Incidentally, you will learn a lot about the major scientific methods in climate research. This will help you to distinguish between the views of certain interest groups on the topic and reliable scientific knowledge in future.
- In addition, once you have finished the course, you will know where to find reliable sources for scientific information and objective representations, since you will be familiar with the major scientific institutions in climate research and renowned German researchers.
Last but not least, you will meet many interesting people with similar interests and questions to yours. This course will help you meet new contacts and get connected to the community.
Gliederung
There are six chapters in this MOOC. These are the contents at a glance:
- Climate system and climate change
- Models and scenarios
- The climate in the past
- Impacts of climate change
- Climate change as a societal challenge
- Climate change in politics and economy
Teilnahmebestätigung
In this course, you can get Badges and Training certificate.