EEES 140 Climate Extremes on a Warming Planet
Held concurrently with GEOG 18.01. Somalian drought and famine, Greenland wildfires, monsoonal floods and landslides in Southeast Asia, and the brutal hurricanes and post-storm neglect of Puerto Rico - climate related disasters such as these cost the U.S. alone a record of $300B in 2017. With the world warming an order of magnitude faster than any time in the last 65 million years and with more people, material, and money occupying the same space than ever before, it's unclear whether such climate impacts are part of a geophysical trend or reflective of our social, political, and economic choices.
Instructor
Mankin