An introduction to climate change

In this video, Professor Keith Shine from the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, explains what climate change is and what we can expect from it in the future.

On many of the Steps in this course, you’ll see a list of links to references and further reading which complement the course. It is entirely optional if you want to follow up on these links but as the course materials will be accessible for a short period of time after the live weeks of the course finishes (although our course educators will no longer be participating in the discussion areas) you may like to follow up with them at a later date.

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References and further reading:

• The NASA website
• IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 151 pp.
• Bloomberg.com What’s warming the world?
• IPCC video – Climate Change 2014. Mitigation of climate change.
• IPCC video – Climate Change 2013. The physical science basis.