Climate Change Seminar
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this graduate seminar surveying climate change from angles relevant to computer scientists. Topics include climate science fundamentals, climate models and simulations, decision-making under uncertainty, economics of mitigation and adaptation, geoengineering proposals, policy-making, public messaging, and the politics surrounding climate action. Rather than problem sets, the course builds toward a final research project, which students can present as a paper, a blog, working software, or another format of their choosing. Materials include the syllabus, reading lists, and project guidelines as posted on MIT OCW, all available under a Creative Commons license at no cost. The course sits jointly in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and its Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences department, reflecting its intent to bridge technical computing skills with the science and policy of a warming planet.