Name: The emergent patterns of climate change
Uploaded: 2014-05-01T15:02:18Z
Duration: 11 min 56 s
Description: You can't understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It's the whole, or it's nothing. In this illuminating talk, he explains how he studies the big picture of climate change with mesmerizing models that illustrate the endlessly complex interactions of small-scale environmental events.

Ice–ocean boundary conditions for coupled models

Total Precipitable Water

Southern Hemisphere climate response to ozone changes and greenhouse gas increases

Climate simulations for 1880-2003 with GISS Model E

Dynamic winter climate response to large tropical volcanic eruptions since 1600

Modeling an Abrupt Climate Change

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*The Forgiving Air*

You can't understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It's the whole, or it's nothing. In this illuminating talk, he explains how he studies the big picture of climate change with mesmerizing models that illustrate the endlessly complex interactions of small-scale environmental events.

Gavin Schmidt: The emergent patterns of climate change

The emergent patterns of climate change

Climate science transcends simple reductionism, grappling with patterns across 14 orders of magnitude in space and time.

Without future observations, models are our compass, illustrating the stark impacts of our climate choices on the globe.

Understanding climate requires grasping scales from milliseconds to millennia, demanding models over simple observations.