- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction
- 1 An engineered world
- 2 What is climate?
- 3 How certain can we be?
- 4 What are the challenges?
- 5 End-of-session quiz
- 6 Session 1 summary
- 1 Trusting sources of information
- 2 Taking Earth’s temperature
- 3 Changes in Earth’s water
- 4 Effects on life
- 5 End-of-session quiz
- 6 Session 2 summary
- 1 Deducing the causes of climate change
- 2 Radiative forcings – increasing temperature
- 3 Radiative forcings – cooling temperatures
- 4 Internal variability
- 5 Putting it all together
- 6 End-of-session quiz
- 7 Session 3 summary
- Introduction
- 1 The climate forecast
- 2 Different possible futures
- 3 Predictions for the planet
- 4 Predictions for life: Natural systems
- 5 Predictions for humans
- 6 End-of-session quiz
- 7 Session 4 summary
- Introduction
- 1 Tipping the energy balance scales
- 2 Energy from the Sun
- 3 Reducing energy in
- 4 Increasing energy out
- 4.2 Ocean fertilisation
- 5 End-of-session quiz
- 6 Session 5 summary
- Introduction
- 1 Climate models
- 2 Geoengineering scenarios
- 3 Field experiments
- 4 Geoengineering in the real world
- 5 End-of-session quiz
- 6 Session 6 summary
- Introduction
- 1 Choose wisely
- 2 Uncertainties
- 3 What are the risks?
- 4 Climate predictions and the media
- 5 End-of-session quiz
- 6 Session 7 summary
- 1 Are climate models wrong?
- 2 Public opinion
- 3 Climate targets
- 4 Decision time
- 5 End-of-session quiz
- 6 Session 8 summary
- Where next?
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
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