Interpreting planetary atmospheres, reconstructing paleoenvironments and predicting our future world all rely on understanding climate systems. This course examines the past, present and future of Earth's climate, as well as the applicability of such studies to the rest of the Solar System. Paleoclimatology will include both important climate history and methods of interpreting paleoenvironments. Current climatology will include interactions between air, ice, oceans, rock, soil, living things and precipitation. Planetary climatology will include the evolution of the Solar System and the interaction of the Sun and planetary bodies. Laboratories will utilize mathematics and computation to analyze authentic climate data of varying scales as well as rock and soil samples.