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Welcome to the Greenhouse
Earth’s atmosphere works like a greenhouse, trapping heat from the sun to turn our planet into the brown-green-blue-white Earth it...
Welcome to Climate Change, Climate Fiction!
This collaborative course is intended to help folks learn climate science using climate fiction. Fiction here is defined broadly. It...
Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals
Dorothy Wordsworth, a writer and poet, left behind a multitude of journals with lengthy descriptions of daily weather and activities....
Inclusion Statement
The climate crisis is global and beyond human. Readings, artwork, and activities will draw from global experiences, bodies of literatures,...
Growing CCCF with your input
This course is intended to be explored as you might explore a natural space – moving through, circling back, orienting...
Geology - Softness, Weathering, Material, Time
Pair with: Ilana Halperin’s Geologic Intimacy, Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud
A primer on volcanos
Volcanos are fiery portals to the inner workings of the earth. Combinations of heat, pressure, and chemical volatility can bring...
Glaciers
Glaciers are bodies of ice large enough to flow under their own weight. They tend to form at high elevations...
Ice Ages
Ice ages occur periodically due to a combination of continental location, atmospheric concentration of gasses, and solar input.
Earth's climate cycles and climate records: what was, what might have been
In the past two million years, Earth has been in one of its five ice ages.
Milankovitch Cycles
Milankovitch Cycles are natural variations in the earth’s orbit and tilt which play major a role in longterm climate, determining...
Weather
Weather is the daily manifestation of complex relationships between land, atmosphere, and the hydrologic cycle. Varying air mass temperatures, densities,...
Clouds
“The night I stayed too late I was hunched on the fog staring spellbound at spreading, reflecting stains of lilac...