Università Roma Tre

- History of climatology, international organisations, climate change reality and denial

- Fundamentals of the climate system: the earth's radiative budget, feedbacks and forcings, introduction to the climatic importance of the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere

- Climate variability, climate change, the Anthropocene

- The cryosphere: glaciers, permafrost, polar areas, sea ice

-The climate system and its natural and anthropogenic perturbations: Variation in the relative position of the continents, astronomical, greenhouse gases, aerosols, volcanic eruptions, solar activity, land surface variations, meteorite impacts

- Climate variations and sea level

- Palaeoclimate: reconstructing climate change in the past using palaeoclimate archives

- Tipping Points

- Extreme events

- Climate Models

- Shared Socio-Economic Scenarios

- Climate in the 21st century, results from models

- Impacts of Climate Change on the cryosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, biosphere.

- Economic costs of climate change mitigation and adaptation

- Technological innovation for a decarbonised society

Pdf and copies of recent specialistic scientific publications given by the teacher, slides used during lessons will be also provided.