Put simply, what is climate change? - Earth - Cosmos
Put simply, what is climate change?
We all know about climate change, but do we really understand it?
Maya, a year 12 student and musical theatre fan wants to know about how it actually works.
So, why is our planet warming? Is it really out fault? And why is it like putting on a jumper? Maya puts on her best investigative sweater to find out.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.