Lecture 2 - A Case Study of Earth - Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change - ESM 120 (Winter 2022)

Lecture 2. We are going to talk about the history of fossil fuels, the rise of carbon cycle science, the chemistry and physics of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, how scientists reconstruct past climates, and the role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We begin with a discussion about the present day -- about where things stand with global warming, including some of the latest research on what the future holds for emissionson this planet.