Everybody is talking about "climate change" and "global warming". But what is global warming, actually?
Stanford University climatologist Stephen Schneider discusses what we know and don’t know about the future of the Earth’s climate.
Insurance companies are funding scientists who try to predict the future effects of global warming, they warn the public about the dangers of climate change, and they try their best to counteract it. But what motivates them?
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report delivered a huge blow to global warming skeptics. Leading climate scientists are now 90 percent sure that human activity is heating up the planet. They present various scenarios that show where global warming could take us by the end of the century.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and scientific adviser to the German chancellor Angela Merkel. He explains how to avoid unmanageable consequences from climate change and why economic growth will still be possible.
Why combating climate change is becoming a top issue on the agendas of governments and businesses around the world.
