Skip to main content
Climate
Search

Main navigation

  • Climate 101
    • What We Know
    • What Can Be Done
    • Climate Primer
  • Explore
    • Explainers
    • Ask MIT Climate
    • Podcast
    • For Educators
  • MIT Action
    • News
    • Events
    • Resources
  • Search
MIT

Main navigation

  • Climate 101
    • What We Know
    • What Can Be Done
    • Climate Primer
  • Explore
    • Explainers
    • Ask MIT Climate
    • Podcast
    • For Educators
  • MIT Action
    • News
    • Events
    • Resources
  • Search
VideoMay 8, 2017

Greenhouse Gases Versus Clouds: Why the Climate is What it is - Professor Dan Cziczo

    Description

    In this video from the 2016 EAPS Climate Summit, MIT’s Associate Professor Dan Cziczo discusses the role clouds play in combating the warming effects of greenhouse gases. 

    Professor Czisco explains how greenhouses gasses have changed our climate in the modern age, and why early predictions of global temperatures were inaccurate.

    He uses a live experiment to illustrate how human-made particles in the atmosphere result in cloud formations, which in turn minimize the global warming effect of greenhouse gasses. 

    by ClimateX Team
    Topics
    Atmosphere
    Climate Modeling

    Related Posts

    PostDecember 8, 2025

    Where the Ocean and Atmosphere Communicate

    MIT Spectrum
    Global map showing kilometer-scale ocean turbulence that mix water masses and transport heat, energy, and nutrients.
    PostNovember 25, 2025

    PODCAST: Climate Reveal (Season 1, Episode 5) - Health and Climate

    MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
    Podcast: Climate Reveal
    PostNovember 11, 2025

    12.307 Weather and Climate Laboratory

    MIT OCW
    Diagram of a cylinder on a table connected through a hose, labeled "drain," to another cylinder below the table
    PostOctober 17, 2025

    School of Engineering welcomes new faculty in 2024-25

    MIT News
    Top row, left to right: Masha Folk, Sophia Henneberg, Omar Khattab, and Tania Lopez Silva. Bottom row, left to right: Ethan Peterson, Daniel Varon, Dean Price, and Raphael Zufferey.

    MIT Climate News in Your Inbox

     
     

    MIT Groups Log In

    Log In

    Footer

    • About
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Privacy Policy
    • Accessibility
    • Contact
    MIT Climate Project
    MIT
    Communicator Award Winner
    Communicator Award Winner