This course will discuss major climate events through the course of Earth's history, including Snowball Earth; warm Cretaceous; Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum; Pleistocene ice ages, and ongoing climate change in the Anthropocene. We will evaluate the data and evidence documenting these climate events and discuss the underlying governing mechanisms in the context of radiative balance, greenhouse gases, ice sheets, ocean circulation, and biogeochemistry. Formats will include lectures, student presentations and discussion of scientific literature, and a term paper.
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