Image: The author in his kayak, Hurricane Isabel, Cape Anne, Maryland: This annotated lecture starts with a very short history of climate change. It relies on Spencer Weart's, The Discovery of Global Warming. Then it states the outcomes of the scientific [...]
This annotated lecture introduces the measurements of temperature as well as projections of temperature to 2100. There is an emphasis on the physical reasons of what is presented. Link to lecture (12 minutes)
This annotated lecture introduces the measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There is discussion of the behavior of carbon dioxide, including the trend from fossil fuel burning and the take up and release of carbon dioxide by plants. There is also [...]
This annotated lecture presents three slides of observations on how the climate is changing. The perspective is on the fact that heat is accumulating in the environment. Much of the heat is stored in the oceans. Some of the heat is melting [...]
Adapted from blog on ClimatePolicy.org, October 31, 2010. What to Do ? (1) Knowledge and Politics: In early 2010, a Republican candidate for State Office came to my office to talk about climate change. At the end of the hour he asked [...]
Climate Change: A fundamental shift of our place in the world A version of this blog appeared originally in the Michigan Journal of Sustainability. Richard B. Rood University of Michigan Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering rbrood@umich.edu May 24, 2014 During the [...]
Pulling Back from the Climate Change Precipice Richard B. Rood University of Michigan Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering rbrood@umich.edu February 23, 2018 Prepared for International Conferences on the Unity of the Sciences, Seoul Korea, 2018. Published in the conference proceedings. The [...]
This is a brochure that Emily Upton and I wrote on logical fallacies and the use of rhetorical techniques in conversations on climate change and climate change denial. The George C. Marshall Institute was a conservative think tank that provided resources for [...]
In early September 2019, Hurricane Dorian stalled over the Northwestern Bahama Islands and scoured the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama. During much of its stall, Dorian was a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. This scale primarily measures one attribute [...]
Welcome to OpenClimate This is a website on climate change and, especially, climate change problem solving. I am a professor at the University of Michigan, where I came after more than 20 years at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). [...]