Global Warming

So far we have focused mainly on the causes that contribute to global climate change. Now let’s turn our attention to the effects.

Watch Dr. Nathan B. English examine different scenarios and the increase in temperature that will result from each.

Video guide

Since this video is a little longer than most videos in this course, here is a guide to the topics it covers.

References

Figures SPM.1, SPM.2, SPM.5 and SPM.8 from IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson- Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J. B. R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press.