The world has warmed about one point two degrees since preindustrial times. There's no firm threshold where we exceed that and all of a sudden everything is terrible, M says. The risk of these things increases the warmer it gets,. And so that's why i think really broken records. Every scientist says every tenth of a degree of warming matters. But do you have enough knowledge in your models to predict whether they'll become more frequent? Kate: Is there some net flow of water that just gets redistributed when rain falls somewhere else?
What can the climate on Venus tell us about Earth? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer questions about climate modeling, the state of climate change, and future predictions with climate scientist, Kate Marvel.
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