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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Climate Change Exhibition [Watch (HLS stream): Climate Change Exhibition](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/NKKdvMr5.m3u8) (4:41)  _Published 2008-10-22. The American Museum of Natural History breaks down global warming_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:02 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Fire at New Delhi's Natural History Museum](/video/qgrZKcNo/) ### Fire at New Delhi's Natural History Museum [Go Inside the Empty American Museum of Natural History with Top Instagrammers](/video/RaRPQBpn/) ### Go Inside the Empty American Museum of Natural History with Top Instagrammers [Climate Central: The Icy Clues to Global Warming](/video/QEMIn7wX/) ### Climate Central: The Icy Clues to Global Warming --- ## Transcript >> Almost everyone knows about climate change. That doesn't mean everyone understands it, as Michael Oppenheimer knows. >> I think what this exhibit does is turn a problem that can be all too abstract into something very tangible. Here you can actually go see, you know, at life size scale, in some cases what it means when you talk about a threat to life of a particular species, or what if a coral reef really looks like when it's healthy and when it's dying due to so much warming for instance. >> Oppenheimer is the co- curator of a new exhibit called 'Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future', that's running at the American National History Museum in New York. When you face a skeptic what do you say to them? How do you-- how do you answer this question? >> Well, first I haven't had a sort of confrontation with a skeptic in a long time. They're a dying breed. >> Uh- huh. >> And the reason is because nature is sending us a message. >> I also spoke to Edmond Mathez, his fellow curator, about the impact that carbon dioxide is having on the climate. >> This is one metric ton of coal, and as you can see at this part of the exhibit, we describe the sources of greenhouse gas emissions that produce the coals from all the fossil fuels. >> What's this red line here? This leading to a-- >> Well, what we show here is the slow buildup of carbon dioxide over time. This situation that we find ourselves in now is a consequence of how we've evolved as a society, and now we unexpectedly have found ourselves face to face with a new problem. >> Although the emphasis is on the CO2 we release in the air, that's not the whole story. >> It's almost impossible to overemphasize the importance of the ocean. The oceans have been called the cauldron of climate, and I think that's a very, very apt term. It's really the ocean that controls the CO2 content of the atmosphere. About 30 percent of all-- of all CO2 emissions from the last 200 years are actually now in the ocean. >> The exhibition doesn't hold back from the dire impact that global warming will have on the planet. As temperatures warm, we're likely to see more and longer droughts and more frequent forest fires. Scientists can predict those changes because they can look to evidence of past climate data. The warming that has come after CO2 spikes throughout history. It can even read the rings of long dead trees to discover past mega- droughts. >> This is a core sediment from the ocean. This core, believe it or not is, comes from a-- it records an event that occurred 55 million years ago, and at that time there was a very sudden increase in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere. This shows us that the climate system is gonna take tens of thousands of years to recover from an event like that, a sudden injection of CO2 over the atmosphere so it's a very, very interesting analog, a potential analog to what might happen in the future. >> Part of the confusion about global warming is we tend to use climate and weather as if they're interchangeable, but they're not. The weather is a day to day variation; the climate is a long term average of weather over decades and centuries. And, we can already begin to see the climate changing over the long term. What are the-- what are the impacts of warming that worry you particularly the ones that you think what are the biggest possibly to really disrupt human life? >> Well, we're going to have more heat waves for instance, but there's a big difference between a modest increase in the intensity of heat waves and getting the situation where the heat wave in Europe in 2003 which we talked about here, which killed 35, 000 people becomes the norm. >> How do you make a long- term problem clear and present and at the same time promote that kind of long term thinking? >> Well, again I think you have to give people things they can do in their everyday life which will make a dent in the problem. Not be complicated, not cost them a lot of money. If everybody use compact fluorescent bulbs instead of incandescent bulbs they would save money on their electrical bill. If everybody drove cars to get high fuel economy as people now are starting to do because of high gas prices that would save people money over the long- term. I look at it a little bit like this polar bear. This polar bear is an image of what could happen to the bears in the future as their ecosystems in sea ice starts to disappear. They stop looking for food not by hunting seals from ice close but rummaging through garbage dumps. But I also look at this as kind of a metaphor for humanity. We don't wanna wind up in 50 years sort of straggling through the detro deces of our society for to maintain our existence. 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