Can Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Refreeze the Arctic?
Students examine whether stratospheric aerosol injection could cool the rapidly warming Arctic, and why a regional intervention would still affect the whole planet.
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Climate Adaptation and Intervention: Wildfire Resilience and Solar Radiation Management
Students explore how communities can adapt to growing wildfire risk, then weigh the science, benefits, and risks of solar radiation management.
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Climate Change and Solar Radiation Modification: Science, Risks, and Who Decides
Students review the climate, how solar radiation modification would work, and its risks and governance; a shorter version ends in a science–policy role-play.
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Climate Engineering Design
Students refine a climate engineering design while considering its function, feasibility, and consequences.
Lesson 3 of 5 in the Climate Engineering module.
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Climate Engineering – Module Overview
Students learn climate engineering through five connected lessons, designing, testing, debating, and presenting their own climate solutions.
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Cloud in a Bottle Experiment
Students use a cloud-in-a-bottle experiment to explore marine cloud brightening and atmospheric processes.
Lesson 2 of 5 in the Climate Engineering module.
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Collaborative Design
Students collaborate on a technology-based response to climate change while learning foundational climate engineering concepts.
Lesson 1 of 5 in the Climate Engineering module.
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Culminating Event
Students present and defend their climate engineering designs to an audience of scientists, engineers, stakeholders, or policymakers.
Lesson 5 of 5 in the Climate Engineering module.
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Exploring Solar Radiation Modification Futures: A Five-Lesson Futures Thinking Sequence
Students use futures-thinking tools, from Futures Wheels to scenario stories, to imagine and discuss life in a world with solar radiation modification.
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Geoengineering Across Academic Disciplines: A Three-Lesson Unit
Students connect the history of technological innovation to climate engineering across three lessons and build their own evidence-based argument about modifying the climate.
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Introduction to Marine Cloud Brightening
Students explore how spraying sea salt into ocean clouds could reflect more sunlight, weigh the evidence and open questions, and consider Arctic use.
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Introduction to the Climate System
Students explore how Earth's climate system works, what drives natural and human-caused climate change, and how models and international policy respond.
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The Letter-Writing Journal Club: Joining the Debate on Solar Geoengineering
Students read a published article on solar geoengineering, discuss it in a structured journal club, and draft a letter to the editor.
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Managing Climate Overshoot: Where Solar Radiation Management Fits in the Climate Toolkit
Students place solar radiation management within the wider climate toolkit and weigh stratospheric aerosol injection and marine cloud brightening against their risks.
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Model U.N.
Students use a Model U.N. simulation to examine social, economic, and political questions surrounding climate engineering.
Lesson 4 of 5 in the Climate Engineering module.
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Modeling the Potential Impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection: Knowns & Unknowns
Students learn how climate models simulate stratospheric aerosol injection, why models disagree, and what research is needed before its effects are understood.
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A New Taxonomy of Climate Interventions: Card Activity
Students sort 75 climate intervention cards by where each begins in the Earth system and trace intended and unintended outcomes.
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Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth: Evidence from Climate Models and Volcanic Eruptions
Students weigh the benefits and risks of reflecting sunlight to cool Earth, using climate model results and lessons from past volcanic eruptions.
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Research or Not? Classifying Solar Radiation Modification Experiments
Students learn to tell SRM research experiments from commercial or deployment activities, classify real cases, and debate a proposed non-use agreement.
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Solar Climate Intervention: Weighing Benefits, Risks, and Moral Hazard
Students weigh reflecting sunlight against termination shock, moral hazard, and geopolitical risk; a graduate version adds aerosol physics and a quantitative exercise.