A lecture that outlines our understanding of the main feedback processes in the climate system and how they impact both the magnitude of future changes in Earth's climate and the uncertainty in our predictions of these changes.
The mighty water molecule, with its voracious appetite for infrared radiation, is responsible for much of what we know about climate and climate change, and even more of what we don't know.
Earth’s climate trajectory over the next few decades will be influenced both by human-induced climate change and by internally generated variability in the climate system. This lecture highlights the substantial contribution of internal variability to projected climate trends over North America in the next 50 years.