The current climate crisis is very real, urgent, and human caused. The solutions are clear, and hope remains. Though weather is an atmospheric phenomenon powered by the sun, the climates creating that weather come mainly from below via geophysical and geochemical processes operating in the deep earth interior. And the archive of climate change is the record of the rocks through the sands of time.
In 2022, my sabbatical project was to create a series 24 podcasts –recorded audio lectures with special attention to the sounds of words– that gave student an accessible way to learn that geologists invented the subject of climate change, and that climates come from below via geology and geophysics. They were created specifically for the UConn course UNIV 1784-009 – Climate Underground, my section of the Honors First Year Seminar, and have been used for three years. They were edited and posted by Mike Illuzi at UConn’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Most are 15-20 minutes long. Though sequenced as a single course, they can be listened to in any order.
Read Transcripts of Blog Postings.
Link to other blogs: Earthly Matters and Climate Underground and Stone Wall Initiative.