For the final lesson of this class, I'd like you to watch this video from Chapter One of Episode Four in the WPSU Geospatial Revolution [1] series. This video shows how geospatial technologies and analytical methods are used to monitor and predict the impacts of climate change. Among others in this video, you'll see Richard Alley [2], another Penn State professor who happens to have his own quite interesting MOOC [3] on Coursera.
Links
[1] http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/
[2] http://www.geosc.psu.edu/academic-faculty/alley-richard
[3] https://www.coursera.org/course/energy