Ask a Climate Scientist: CO2 and Temperature
1:40 | Is there any merit to the studies that show that historical CO2 levels lag behind temperature, and not lead them?
Ask a Climate Scientist
1:20 | Have a question that’s always confounded you about Earth’s climate?
A History of Earth’s Climate
11:19 | A look at the history of climate change on Earth can give us some much needed perspective on our current climate dilemma.
Keeping Up with Carbon
5:15 | NASA Climate Change
Climate Change Overload
3:47 | NASA Climate Change
The Ocean: A Driving Force for Weather and Climate
6:00 | This animation shows the importance of Earth’s oceanic processes as one component of Earth’s interrelated systems.
Dynamic Earth
4:26 | Watch Earth’s magnetic shield protect the planet from a pelting by the solar wind. See how the sun’s energy drives a remarkable planetary engine, the climate.
How to talk to an Ostrich: “We don’t know enough…”
2:21 | It’s true that Earth’s a massive jigsaw puzzle, with lots of pieces intricately fitting together. But, Richard Alley argues, we already know enough to see the Big Picture.
Earth: The Operators’ Manual, 2011 version, program 1
53:42 | Richard Alley explains the essential science of climate change, and the promise of renewable energy.
James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change
17:51 | Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change.
Earth’s Climate Gets a Checkup: Operation IceBridge
4:46 | NASA Climate Change
Arctic Sea Ice 101
4:28 | NASA Climate Change
Climate Change and Global Ocean
5:15 | NASA Climate Change
Warming World
5:48 | NASA Climate Change
Aquarius Climate
2:13 | Sea surface salinity has a massive influence on Earth’s climate. With Aquarius, scientists will have a new way to measure that influence in a consistent way.
Glory: Glory’s Suncatcher
3:19 | The Sun’s energy is one of the biggest forcings on Earth’s climate, and for years satellites have measured total solar irradiance.
Head of space studies on Climate Change
5:01 | The head of NASA space studies, are in Copenhagen to prepare the scientist proposal for the international UN climate summit (COP15) in December. A young Danish climate activist gets a unique interview before the Danish press.
The Road to Glory
6:51 | Glory is a unique research satellite. It collects data on the properties of aerosols and black carbon in the Earth’s atmosphere and data on solar irradiance for Earth’s long-term climate record.
Supercomputing the Climate
5:42 | The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is capable of running highly complex climate models.
Climate Change – the objections
10:18 | This video looks at alternative hypotheses explaining global warming. I am only looking at alternative hypotheses put forward by real, professional climate researchers, and the findings of real, professional climate researchers who disagree with them.
Climate Change – the scientific debate
10:41 | A basic look at how climate scientists infer that man-made carbon gases are changing the climate, and how this view is contradicted by other climate scientists who are skeptics.
Earth Science Week: Climate Change & The Global Ocean
5:15 | “Climate Change and The Global Ocean” is the first episode in the series “Tides of Change”, exploring amazing NASA ocean science.
Tree Rings, Climate Change and the Rainy Season
8:26 | Scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are reading the growth rings of ancient trees to understand the history and workings of the monsoon.
Climate in a Box
4:53 | NASA has begun to facilitate the operation of new desktop sized supercomputers.
Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle
5:48 | The video explains what role fluctuations in the solar cycle, changes in snow and cloud cover, and rising levels of heat-trapping gases may play in contributing to climate change.
Rachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline
6:45 | In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change.