AMNH Presents: SciCafe: Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels

The ongoing pollution of our atmosphere with an invisible odorless gas called carbon dioxide is trapping heat at the Earth’s surface and causing temperatures to rise on land and in the ocean. The polar regions are warming fastest of all and the melting ice sheets are causing sea levels to rise around the globe. How fast climate changes in the future will depend on our collective actions as individuals, families, communities, and governments. In this presentation, paleoclimatologist Maureen Raymo will review evidence for climate change, natural and manmade, and explore how ice sheets and sea level changed in the past.