Embark on a fascinating foray into the complex and enthralling field of meteorology: the study of the weather. In the 24 engaging lectures of Meteorology: An Introduction to the Wonders of the Weather, learn about the often surprising, always intriguing interactions that make up our world's climate. Bringing together geography, chemistry, physics, and other scientific disciplines, Professor Robert G. Fovell offers you fresh and illuminating insights into weather of your everyday life.
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No place on Earth is safe from severe storms. Tour the world’s wildest weather—and learn how to protect yourself—with a storm-chasing, prize-winning meteorologist. By delving into The Science of Extreme Weather that underlies blizzards, flash floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, and more, you’ll come away with newfound appreciation and respect for the atmosphere’s most awe-inspiring phenomena.
This course is your chance to get some of the most up-to-date research on climate change. Earth's Changing Climate explains the concepts, tools, data, and analysis that have led an overwhelming number of climate scientists to conclude that Earth is warming—and the ways in which we humans might be responsible. Whatever your views on climate change, it's important to understand how the current scientific consensus on global warming evolved out of basic physical principles and a broad range of observations. A lucid presentation designed for non-scientists, this course is an invaluable tool for understanding one of the 21st century's most hotly debated issues.
If you love the wonders of the outdoor world, don't miss this two-course set that teaches you how to look at the sky in a whole new way. You'll learn to interpret clues in the air and the significance of temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind direction and speed with The Science of Extreme Weather. Then, tour of the sky's most dazzling displays, most of which you can see even without binoculars with Skywatching: Seeing and Understanding Cosmic Wonders.
Four billion years ago, the infant Earth was a seething cauldron of erupting volcanoes, raining meteors, and hot noxious gases, totally devoid of life. But a relatively short time later-100 million to 200 million years-the planet was teeming with primitive organisms. What happened? Professor Robert M. Hazen, one of the nation's foremost science educators and a leader of a NASA-supported team that is studying the origins of life in the universe, leads you on a 24-lecture expedition to find the answer to this momentous question.
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