Caltech and JPL Experts Discuss Climate Change

In today's installment of our Earth Week 2014 features, Caltech experts share their knowledge about climate change.

Caltech professor Jess Adkins, a geochemist and paleoclimatologist, offers insight into global warming in the video "Is There Hope for Planet Earth?" produced by Green Wish, a nonprofit organization that funds green initiatives at the local level. In the video, Adkins talks about the history of climate change, where we are today, and what we can do to mitigate its impact in the future.

On April 22—Earth Day—the Caltech Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach sponsored an "Ask A Scientist" panel on the Caltech campus to answer questions about climate change and earth sciences. Panel members included David Crisp, JPL senior research scientist and principal investigator of the NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder Orbiting Carbon Observatory mission; Joshua Fisher, JPL research scientist, Water and Carbon Cycles Group; science communicator and education specialist Laura Tenenbaum; and Caltech alumnus Julius Su (BS '98 and '99, PhD '07), cofounder of Su-Kam Intelligent Education Systems (SKIES). Su used the SKIES iPad app, an online learning and information crowdsourcing tool, to relay online and audience questions to the panelists. The video is a recording of the live event.