Climate change exists. The first signs of change are clearly evident. Extreme weather conditions around the world are becoming increasingly frequent and the Arctic ice is disappearing. The temperature increase can be felt in our everyday lives.

These and other phenomena will intensify and have a more or less drastic effect on our living conditions. Our climate is our future. The changes in our environment are disconcerting and raise a few questions ...

Can we adapt to the impacts of this event?
How can we interpret these and similar observations?
To what causes can we attribute the changes?
What predictions can we possibly make?
What can I myself do?

A group of leading German scientists from renowned research facilities asks these questions here in our MOOC.

Our key speakers are:

Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Prof. Dr. Jochem Marotzke from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz from the MARUM, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences in Bremen
Prof. Dr. Hermann Lotze-Campen from the PIK, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Prof. Dr. Anita Engels from the CliSAP, Cluster of Excellence 'Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction' at the Universität Hamburg (choose EN for English version)
Prof. Dr. Gernot Klepper from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Other climate specialists, from a range of other disciplines, paint a fuller picture with their scientific expertise. Some lessons also include exclusive interviews and guest contributions from other countries.

Our experts will provide the scientific basis for climate change and its impacts, sometimes the subject of heated discussion, in accordance with the internationally recognized standard, the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change) is the body in which scientists from all over the world come together to assess the global situation.

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