Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-0-9 units. For example, the increase in water vapor that occurs with warming further increases climate forcing and evaporation, as water vapor is a powerful GHG. In pictures: the impact of the climate crisis and human activity on our oceans, Weird winter weather and reminders of a warming planet, Horn of Africa drought worse than 2011,and the other climate crisis stories you need to read this week, Cooling the planet: US researchers develop newclimate-friendly method of cooling, Electric refuse trucks could soon be coming to pick up your weekly trash. Climate change affects ocean habitats by lowering oxygen, decreasing phytoplankton (little plants that serve as the base of marine food chains) and killing coral reefs. Sheet2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (2016) Climate Change Indicators in the U.S., 2016. 0000007892 00000 n 0000011194 00000 n Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Spring) Examines how centering plants changes our understanding of what it means to be human. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)2-0-7 units, Subject meets with STS.044Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 0000031470 00000 n Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an integrated approach to managing landscapescropland, livestock, forests and fisheriesthat addresses the interlinked challenges of food security and accelerating climate change. Guest lectures by MIT-affiliated engineers who contributed to and participated in the Apollo missions. HASS-S. A greenhouse captures heat from the Sun during the day. United States Speaker: Anthony C. Janetos Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute This evidence-based presentation makes it clear that climate change isn't some future abstraction, nor is it a far-off phenomenon happening to people in other parts of . It is a modification in long-term weather patterns mainly caused by . Addresses subject matter in Science, Technology and Society that is not offered in the regular curriculum. Detailed technical and historical exploration of the Apollo project to fly humans to the moon and return them safely to Earth as an example of a complex engineering system. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. Positive forcings, such as GHGs, exert a warming influence on the Earth, while negative forcings, such as sulfate aerosols, exert a cooling influence. Substitution with a similar subject may be permitted by petition to the STS Undergraduate Officer. Cao, L., et al. Covers the failures and defeats of postcolonial projects when faced with the challenge of asymmetric access to global markets and capital. "There is no way to produce enough meat for 9 billion people," said Bill Gates in a 2013 blog post. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)3-0-9 units. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. It has a guide index to help you focus your presentation. 0000010082 00000 n Climate Change. Open to upperclassmen with permission of instructor. Surprise your teacher with this professional template. 0000003681 00000 n Subject meets with STS.443Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered In the theme of Climate Change and Sustainability, we included the need for prioritising investment in socio-political-economic aspects of climate change; sustainability and reduction of environmental effects in agriculture and mineral commodities extraction; protection and recovery of Brazilian biomes and oceans; blue economy; biodiversity; an energy transition; adaptation of the agricultural . Opens up trans-hemispheric conversations between constituencies that seldom talk to each other, each bringing its ways of seeing, thinking, knowing, and doing to the matrix to mutually inform one another. Provides a global view of STS in an increasingly interconnected world. 0000022835 00000 n PDF Document. It leads to one degree, either a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Science or a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Engineering. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA. 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Science, 229(3): 857. Sea level is rising, and ice is melting. Same subject as 21A.303[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Fall) The warmest year on record since records began in 1880 was 2016, with 2020 ranking second. The three main objectives are to immerse students in the historical, cultural, multi-cultural, and entrepreneurial aspects of energy across the world to make them better energy engineers; to introduce them to research and analytical methods; and to deploy these methods and their various skills to solve/design a solution, in groups, to a specific energy problem chosen by the students. Case studies of specific systems and engineering projects. Addressing specific examples from across the globe, students also explore different approaches to build more livable environments that promote social justice. Examines science and (in turn) religion, warfare, health, education, the environment, and human rights to explore how an international leader in science is also home to some of the developed world's most persistent forms of "science denialism." Same subject as 16.707[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered While mitigation actions are already being implemented, work on adaptation focused so far on establishing important adaptation principles. HASS-H. Examines the development of modern physics within shifting institutional, cultural, and political contexts, such as physics in Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany, US efforts during World War II, and physicists' roles during the Cold War. Taken during first term of student's two-term commitment to thesis project. Secondly, warming temperatures cause ocean water to expand. Burning fossil fuels changes the climate more than any other human activity. Subject (course) information includes any changes approved for the current academic year. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Includes in-class discussion of readings, short written and multimedia assignments, final project. Preparation for graduate work in the field of science and technology studies and introduction to research resources and professional standards. Solving Climate Change. satellites not just as technology demonstrators, but as components of a critical communication and information-based infrastructure for modern societies. Land areas have warmed more . HASS-H; CI-H. HASS-S. Examines existent critiques of the racial, sexual and environmental politics at stake in techno-scientific cultures. The decade spanning 2000-2009 was the warmest on record. 0000006827 00000 n Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. The UNFCCC meeting in Bangkok earlier this month adopted a detailed programme of work. Case studies vary from year to year, but always include a current MIT event. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability . Examines science and technology innovation systems, including case studies on energy, computing, advanced manufacturing, and health sectors. The growing literature on cognition and "things" cuts across anthropology, history, social theory, literature, sociology, and psychology and is of great relevance to science students. 0000009520 00000 n Explores the contributions of big capital, engineers, politicians, and ordinary people. The warming of the atmosphere affects weather patterns, causing more frequent and severe storms and droughts across many global regions. Climate is the average weather in a place over many years. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 37: 117-34. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY The Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) focuses on the ways in which scientic, technological, and social factors interact to shape modern life. Projected increases in number of days over 90F between now and 2090 according to two climate change scenarios. Increased concentrations of GHGs from anthropogenic sources have increased the absorption of infrared radiation, enhancing the natural greenhouse effect. Subject meets with STS.487Prereq: Permission of instructor U (Fall)3-0-9 units. The greenhouse effect works much the same way on Earth. Ocean levels are rising at a rate of 3.3 millimeters per year. Readings include works in history, literature, anthropology, psychology, and linguistics. Michigan Creative, a unit of the 0000004983 00000 n Examines the past, present and future of work from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing from the humanities, social sciences, and cognitive science and engineering. Reading course in the history of aviation, focusing on science and technology and cultural and political context. 0000160252 00000 n 0000006766 00000 n Preference to HASTS students; open to others with permission of instructor. USGCRP (2018) Fourth National Climate Assessment. Taught in English. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. Explores the complex interrelationships among humans and natural environments, focusing on non-western parts of the world in addition to Europe and the United States. 2021. U.S. average annual precipitation has increased by 4% since 1901, but the intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation events has increased even more, a trend that is expected to continue. Limited to 15; no listeners. 0000035287 00000 n HASS-H. Program of graduate research leading to the writing of a PhD thesis, to be arranged by the student with an appropriate MIT faculty member, who is the thesis supervisor. Enrollment limited. National Research Council (2009) Ecological Impacts of Climate Change. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)4-0-8 units. Impacts related to climate change are evident across regions and in many sectors important to societysuch as human health, agriculture and food security, water supply, transportation, energy, ecosystems, and othersand are expected to become increasingly disruptive throughout this century and beyond. 0000009627 00000 n Climate change is altering temperature, precipitation, and sea levels, and will adversely impact human and natural systems, including water resources, human settlements and health, ecosystems, and biodiversity. Subject meets with STS.026Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Enrollment limited by availability of suitable teaching assignments. Same subject as 21A.501[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered For HASTS students participating in curriculum-related off-campus professional internship experiences. Enrollment limited. Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall, Spring)Units arrangedCan be repeated for credit. Subjects. Climate change causes sea levels to rise in two ways. Climate change is a major challenge Climate change is emerging as one of the greatest long-term challenges facing society. Takes a historically inflected approach to examine the social relations of science in the modern United States. %PDF-1.4 % Reviews foundations of economic growth theory, innovation systems theory, and the basic approaches to science and technology policy. Same subject as 21A.319[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered HASS-S; CI-H. For students in the doctoral program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS) who are working on their dissertation proposal and/or research grant proposal program requirement. Begins with the premise that the most significant implications of these efforts extend far beyond the success or failure of individual cancer therapies. Introduces students to the social, political, and ethical aspects of data science work. Historical and contemporary studies are used to explore the interaction of technology with social and political values. 0000005250 00000 n See description under subject 21A.509[J]. Yet, the world is currently on course for a global mean surface temperature increase of . Global Climate Change Impacts in the. HASS-H. Climate change is also affected by the Earths responses to forcings, known as climate feedbacks. Electric Power Generation Fuels HASS-SCredit cannot also be received for 21A.509[J], STS.474[J]. Environmental Research Letters, 9(2), 1-9. It is the average daily weather for an extended period of time at a certain location. Hansen, J., et al. Limited to 18. Prereq: None U (Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer)Units arrangedCan be repeated for credit. It has green colors, connected to the environment, and includes pedagogical illustrations related to ecology. 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