Earth650 Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy (graduate) 2008 MIT
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MIT
12.848J (Spring 2008)
Instructors: Prof. Henry Jacoby Prof. Ronald Prinn Prof. Mort Webster Level Graduate
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Comparison of likely temperature increases over 1990-2100 with no policy (left), and stabilization of greenhouse gases at 550pm CO2 equivalents (right). (Figure from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.)
Course Description
This class introduces scientific, economic, and ecological issues
underlying the threat of global climate change, and the institutions
engaged in negotiating an international response. It also develops an
integrated approach to analysis of climate change processes, and
assessment of proposed policy measures, drawing on research and model
development within the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of
Global Change.
Technical Requirements
Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: xls.
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