Climate: Explained

How growth in population and consumption drives planetary change

Guest Author • Nov 13, 2019

• Carbon dioxide,
• climate change,
• geology,
• population

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 growth of the human population over the last 70 years has exploded from 2 billion to nearly … Read More

Why Mars is cold despite an atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide

Guest Author • Nov 06, 2019

• Carbon dioxide,
• climate change,
• Mars,
• planets,
• space

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 If tiny concentrations of carbon dioxide can hold enough heat to create a global warming impact on Earth, … Read More

How volcanoes influence climate and how their emissions compare to what we produce

Guest Author • Oct 23, 2019

• climate change,
• emissions,
• super volcanoes,
• Volcanoes

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 Everyone is going on about reducing our carbon footprint, zero emissions, planting sustainable crops for biodiesel etc. Is … Read More

The environmental footprint of electric versus fossil car

Guest Author • Oct 16, 2019

• climate change,
• electric vehicles,
• renewable electricity,
• vehicle emissions

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 There is a lot of discussion on the benefits of electric cars versus fossil fuel cars in the … Read More

Why some people still think climate change isn’t real

Guest Author • Oct 10, 2019

• climate change,
• climate change denial

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 Why do people still think climate change isn’t real? David Hall, Auckland University of Technology At its heart, … Read More

What each of us can do to reduce our carbon footprint

Guest Author • Oct 02, 2019

• carbon sequestration,
• climate change,
• electric vehicles,
• greenhouse gas emissions,
• meat consumption,
• soil carbon

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 As an individual, what is the single, most important thing I can do in the face of climate … Read More

Why don’t we have electric aircraft?

Guest Author • Sep 25, 2019

• Biofuels,
• electric vehicles,
• hybrid-electric aircraft,
• Transport

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 Electric cars, trains, trams and boats already exist. That logically leads to the question: why are we … Read More

Why are climate change skeptics often right-wing conservatives?

Guest Author • Sep 20, 2019

• climate change,
• conservatives,
• liberals,
• partisan,
• politics

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 Why are climate change skeptics often right-wing conservatives? Yu Luo, University of British Columbia; Jiaying Zhao, University … Read More

How much of climate change is natural? How much is man-made?

Guest Author • Sep 19, 2019

• climate change

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 How much climate change is natural? How much is man made? Mark New, University of Cape Town As … Read More

Why we won’t be heading into an ice age any time soon

Guest Author • Sep 18, 2019

• climate change,
• global warming,
• greenhouse gases,
• industrial pollution

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 I studied climate in my university geography course in the 1960s, I am sure we were … Read More