Nome da Disciplina: CLIMATE CHANGE

Carga Horária: 60

Créditos: 4

Obrigatória: Não

The essential aspects of Earth's climate system; Earth's energy balance; climate sensitivity; sea ​​level and ice cover; ocean circulation; nutrient cycling and atmospheric variations of CO2; palaeoceanography and climate numerical modeling; relationships between the various compartments of the planet (hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, geosphere); analysis of high-resolution climate records; polar enviroment and its role in the climate change; abrupt climate change; the factors that affect short-term climate variability; current state of climate change; scientific misconceptions and the relationship between science and media; global discussions on climate change.

Alverson, Keith D., Raymond S. Bradley, and Thomas F. Pedersen. Paleoclimate, global change and the future. Springer Science & Business Media, 2003. Bender, Michael L. Paleoclimate. Princeton University Press, 2013. Emerson, Steven, and John Hedges. Chemical oceanography and the marine carbon cycle. Cambridge University Press, 2008. Stern, Nicholas Herbert. Stern Review: The economics of climate change. Vol. 30. London: HM treasury, 2006.