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QTM-490R-4: Advanced Seminar - Spring 2024
While the science of climate change has remained fundamentally unchanged since 1968 when ice-core analysis revealed that we lived on a warming planet, the promise of surviving an era of climate change depends upon humanity’s success at mastering a wealth of data. Today, researchers collect data monitoring carbon emissions, pollution, environmental racism, and anti-deforestation policies. Modern methods of text mining also make it possible to “audit” congresses, corporations, cities, journalists and celebrities for their role in manufacturing climate discourse, perpetuating silences, transmitting false information, or proposing solutions. Through raising consciousness of the politics of data in the era of the climate change, this course aims to offer undergraduates an opportunity to help design our way out of the climate emergency.