Climate: Explained

Climate explained: what is an ice age and how often do they happen?

Guest Author • Sep 29, 2021

• climate change,
• ice age,
• New Zealand stories

    Climate explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz What is an ice age? Do they have to last a certain amount of time to count, … Read More

Climate explained: is New Zealand losing or gaining native forests?

Guest Author • Jul 15, 2021

• climate change,
• native forest,
• New Zealand stories,
• trees

Climate explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz In recent decades, has New Zealand lost forest (both native and exotic) or gained it, courtesy of … Read More

Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on climate change

Guest Author • Jul 05, 2021

• climate change,
• IPCC

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz When we say there’s a scientific consensus that human-produced greenhouse gases are causing climate change, what does that … Read More

Climate explained: could biofuels replace all fossil fuels in New Zealand?

Guest Author • Jun 21, 2021

• Biofuels,
• climate change,
• emissions,
• New Zealand stories

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz   Could biofuels replace all fossil fuels in New Zealand? What are the economic and climate benefits and … Read More

Climate explained: why is the Arctic warming faster than other parts of the world?

Guest Author • Jun 02, 2021

• Antarctica,
• arctic,
• arctic amplification,
• climate change,
• polar vortex

  Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz What is Arctic amplification? Do we know what is causing this phenomenon? What effects is it … Read More

Climate explained: is natural gas really cheaper than renewable electricity?

Guest Author • May 19, 2021

• climate change,
• natural gas,
• New Zealand stories,
• renewable energy

    Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz The government wants us to phase out fossil fuels. Yet natural gas is much cheaper for … Read More

Climate explained: when Antarctica melts, will gravity changes lift up land and lower sea levels?

Robert McLachlan • May 04, 2021

• Antarctica,
• Climate,
• climate change,
• New Zealand stories,
• sea ice

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz I’ve heard the gravity changes when Antarctica melts will lower the seas around New Zealand. Will that save … Read More

Climate explained: what was the Medieval warm period?

Guest Author • Apr 22, 2021

• Climate,
• climate change,
• Middle Ages

  Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz What was the Medieval warm period? What caused it, and did carbon dioxide play a role? … Read More

Climate explained: rising carbon emissions (probably) won’t make the Earth uninhabitable

Guest Author • Apr 07, 2021

• carbon emissions,
• Greenhouse effect,
• New Zealand stories

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz Even with all humanity’s carbon emissions to date, there’s a lot less carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere … Read More

How particles ejected from the Sun affect Earth’s climate

Guest Author • Mar 24, 2021

• Climate,
• Ozone,
• solar particles

  Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz When the Sun ejects solar particles into space, how does this affect the Earth and … Read More