
Modern vs. past climate change
5:09 | Peter Jacobs explains all the human fingerprints that have convinced scientists that climate change today is being caused by humans.
5:09 | Peter Jacobs explains all the human fingerprints that have convinced scientists that climate change today is being caused by humans.
5:51 | Peter Jacobs talks about one of the more complicated questions in climate science: how will clouds change in a changing climate?
5:26 | Peter Jacobs explains climate proxies, which estimate temperatures in the Earth’s past. In particular, he looks at the divergence problem, where some tree-ring proxies diverge from recent instrumental measurements.
6:32 | “Climate change” and “global warming” are phrases that are often used interchangeably, but they do mean different things.