Ep. 689 - Our Warming World: 20 Years of Climate Science
Astronomy Cast
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Basics of Climate Change and Predictions Coming True
They discuss the basics of climate change from a physics perspective, emphasizing that the calculations were done 150 years ago. They explain how additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere raises temperatures and how most of the carbon dioxide absorption and heat absorption is done by the oceans. They mention that ExxonMobil predicted climate change in the 1970s, and that the predictions made at that time are now coming true.
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