Videos
Climate Science 101: Historical Perspectives on Climate Change
James Roger Fleming presents a historical perspective on how our understanding of Earth's climate system developed through innovations and discoveries by pioneering scientists in the 1800s and 1900s who asked and answered fundamental questions about the causes and effects of global climate change.
Climate Science 101: The State of the Climate in 2009
Deke Arndt, chief of NOAA's Climate Monitoring Branch, presents the preponderance of scientific evidence that climate change is occurring and that humans are the primary cause.
Climate Change: Impacts, Solutions and Perceptions
"Climate Science 101" short course sponsored jointly by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), at George Mason University, and NOAA.
Climate Science 101: Limiting the Magnitude of & Adapting to Future Climate Change
Claudia Mengelt and Robert Fri talk about strategies for adapting to and reducing global climate change.
Climate Science 101: Ethics and Issues Surrounding Geo-engineering to Mitigate Climate Change
Climate scientist Michael MacCracken explores some of the scientific, legal, and ethical implications of "geo-engineering" options that have been proposed by some people to address global climate change.
Climate Science 101: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Climate scientist Anthony Janetos makes it clear that climate change isn't some future abstraction: real and substantial impacts on people's lives, the economy, the environment, and our valuable natural resources are already happening here in the United States.

Climate Science 101: Climate Change Communication and Public Engagement
February 15, 2012
Climate Science 101: Is the Breathing of the World's Ocean Choking Marine Life?
Humans currently release about 70 million tons of carbon dioxide every day into the atmosphere and about 20 million tons is being absorbed regularly by the oceans, causing the pH to drop. Chris Sabine describes current and projected future impacts of this acidification on marine ecology.

The Record-Breaking Texas Drought
February 14, 2012
Improving Models for Wind Energy
Jim Wilczak describes the information NOAA provides to guide optimal wind energy development.
Monitoring Malaria Using Satellites
Felix Kogan talks about using satellites to observe and forecast the climate conditions that lead to mosquito–and malaria–outbreaks.

Reviewing the Climate of 2011
February 13, 2012