NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt explains how climate models work, what the evidence shows, what a warmer world could look like and what could be done about emissions.
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Chapters
- 4:45 Introduction
- 5:26 Born in London, living in New York
- 8:17 From Fortran to climate science
- 13:49 How climate models work
- 20:45 What has changed in the last century
- 24:54 Why greenhouse gases explain the warming
- 28:17 Why climate science is controversial
- 34:31 What NASA does in climate research
- 44:45 Hurricanes and climate
- 50:23 The carbon gap
- 54:47 A warmer world: rain, ice and sea level
- 1:02:43 Risk management: mitigation and adaptation
- 1:05:28 How emissions could be cut
- 1:12:58 Nuclear power and the Paris Agreement
- 1:21:18 The scientist and the citizen
- 1:25:44 Why Gavin avoids televised debates
- 1:37:09 James Hansen's legacy
- 1:49:20 Changing his mind about institutions
- 1:52:08 Final questions
- 2:00:35 What a young person can do
