Climate model success stories
5:51 | Climate models have consistently made successful predictions. Here Dana Nuccitelli shows us some examples of successful climate model predictions.
Daily and yearly cycle
3:36 | Dana Nuccitelli explains the pattern of contemporary global warming where night warm faster than days and winter warms faster than summers.
Climate is Sensitive
5:42 | Dana Nuccitelli examines climate sensitivity i.e. the amount of global warming expected from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Polar bears
5:13 | Dana Nuccitelli explains how global warming affects polar bears through its effect on melting sea ice. Different types of sea ice melting mean different impacts.
Adaptation takes time
4:55 | Dana Nuccitelli examines whether species can adapt quickly enough to survive rapid climate change. Five mass extinctions in the Earth’s past indicate there are limits to how much species’ abilities.
Overall impacts
4:46 | Dana Nuccitelli looks at a number of ways that climate change will impact society, and how those impacts worsen with more global warming.
Future Ice Age
4:54 | Dana Nuccitelli looks at what caused ice ages in the past and explains why we don’t expect them to occur in the foreseeable future.
Principles that models are built on
4:43 | Dana Nuccitelli explains the principles that climate models are built on: fundamental physical laws. No one can know the future for certain, but these models allow us to make educated decisions looking forward.