Skip to main content
MIT
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

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

From Snowballs to Hothouses: The Wild History of Earth’s Climate- Assistant Professor David McGee

    Description

    How has the Earth’s climate changed over the past 400 million years?

    In this video, David McGee explains how scientists are able to uncover the entire history of the Earth's climate, including the ice age cycles of the last million years.

    David then discusses how this research can inform our understanding of how the Earth's climate will react as a result of changing condition. 

    by ClimateX Team
    Topics
    Atmosphere
    Climate Modeling

    Related Posts

    PostSeptember 6, 2023

    Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication

    MIT News
    The device is an array of piezoelectric transducers that enables battery-free underwater communication.
    PostSeptember 5, 2023

    Uncovering how biomes respond to climate change

    MIT News
    Leila Mirzagholi, an MIT postdoc in civil and environmental engineering, applies her physics and mathematical background to her research in evaluating the impact climate change has on our global terrestrial carbon cycle.
    PostAugust 21, 2023

    The ice cores that will let us look 1.5 million years into the past

    MIT Technology Review
    PostJuly 11, 2023

    The UN just set a net-zero goal for shipping. Here’s how that could work....

    MIT Technology Review
    Cargo ship loaded with cargo boxes

    MIT Climate News in Your Inbox

     
     

    MIT Groups Log In

    Log In

    Footer

    • About
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Privacy Policy
    • Accessibility
    • Contact
    Environmental Solutions Initiative
    MIT
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Cambridge MA 02139-4307
    Communicator Award Winner
    Communicator Award Winner