Climate Science and Impacts

Serves as a foundation for understanding the science of climate change and its socio-ecological impacts on human societies and the biosphere, and a basis for understanding local, regional, and global challenges associated with warming, sea level change, biodiversity loss, and other impacts. Topics include the context of climate and socio-ecological systems; the scientific basis for climate change; global climate scenarios; climate data and models, with methods for assessing regional climate change; and climate justice. Emphasis is placed on accessing multiple data sources and applying knowledge of foundational climate change science towards communicating the effects of climate change on a chosen socio-ecological system.