Our Changing Climate: Introduction to Climate Science features an up-to-date comprehensive overview of the foundations of Earth's climate system, a greater focus on climate change issues, human and ecosystem vulnerabilities to climate change, energy and geopolitical issues and much more. The primary author of the text is Dr. Chad M. Kauffman, Director of the Meteorology Program at California University of Pennsylvania, who has taught Introduction to Climatology and Synoptic Climatology & Applied Climatology courses throughout his career. The textbook contains 14 chapters each written to a weekly topic and designed for one week of study. Each chapter includes twenty Questions for Review and twelve Critical Thinking Questions.