Climate Basics
Nigerian Edition. What is warming, why, and what it does to Lagos: sea level, rainfall, heat. No polar bears. Your city is the case study.
Start Lesson 01Course outline
- 01
The greenhouse effect, in plain language
The physics in one lesson. No jargon, no equations you can't check.
Read - 02
Nigeria's climate record
What temperature and rainfall data show over the last 50 years.
Read - 03
Why Lagos floods
Sea level, drainage, land use. What is climate and what is governance.
Read - 04
Heat: the silent tax
What heatwaves do to bodies, classrooms and outdoor work.
Read - 05
Drought, food and prices
How failed rains in the north become market prices in Lagos.
Read - 06
Who did this?
Emissions by country and by income. Nigeria's share versus Nigeria's exposure.
Read
What you leave with
You can explain how climate change works and point to its fingerprints in your own city.
- Global Climate ChangeNASA ↗
The satellite evidence behind lessons 1 and 2. Primary data, free.
- Seasonal Climate PredictionNiMet ↗
Nigeria's own weather agency. The forecast lesson 2 tells you to check.
- Climate Change: From Learning to ActionUN CC:Learn ↗
A free certified course if you want a second angle on the basics.