Climate Change (Video)
Episodes
Economics Always Wins: Climate and Electrification in the 21st Century with Tom Steyer
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Climate investor and philanthropist Tom Steyer, recipient of the 2025 Charles David Keeling Memorial Lecture, talks about the current and future state...
Lessons from La Jolla Shores
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For many people, a personal connection to the ocean ties into bigger issues like conservation and climate change. As the biodiversity of marine life a...
From Uncertainty to Early Warning: Advancing Sundowner Wind Science to Reduce Wildfire Risk
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coastal Santa Barbara is considered one of the most idyllic locations on the North American West Coast, but its beauty is frequently disrupted by fast...
Science in the White House: Integrating Solutions to the Triple Crises of Climate Change Loss of Biodiversity and Inequality/Inequity
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three major global challenges – climate change, loss of biodiversity and its benefits, and inequality and inequity among people – are typically ta...
Figuring Out Atmospheric Rivers
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The meteorology that causes atmospheric rivers is complex, but scientists at the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) are working to h...
The Arc of Energy Justice: A Pursuit to Ensure Affordable Reliable and Clean Energy for All
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are at a critical moment in our society. While we advance efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis, across the globe, millions are exper...
Moving Cargo Keeping Whales: Identifying Solutions for Ocean Noise Pollution
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Birch Aquarium presents the September 2024 Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture with a conversation about ocean noise pollution and...
The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the bur...
The Problem with Flood Insurance: Can Community Insurance Help?
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Witness the resilience of Isleton, California, as they pioneer a groundbreaking, community-based flood insurance program aimed at fostering recovery a...
California Communities Fighting Climate Change
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about the California Transformative Climate Communities Program by taking a journey with UCLA into three communities - Fresno, Ontario and Watts...
Understanding Atmospheric Rivers
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last two winter seasons atmospheric rivers have impacted California and the west with extreme precipitation and the cascading consequences of...
California Against the Sea: Reflections on Communicating Sea Level Rise
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Los Angeles Times environment reporter and author of the new book California Against the Sea Rosanna Xia and Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...
Hold Fast: Envisioning Climate Change through the Art and Science of our Local Giant Kelp Forests
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Southern California’s giant kelp forests are ecosystems that are potentially vulnerable to the region’s warming waters, but unlike terrestrial for...
How to Get Big Oil to Take Climate Change Seriously
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What role do oil companies have in tackling climate change? In this program, Paasha Mahdavi, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC Santa Barb...
Dodging Day Zero: Drought Adaptation And Inequality In Cape Town
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the coming decades, individuals around the world must adapt to changing environmental conditions, often driven by climate change. Adaptation requir...
Developing Technology to Stay Ahead of Natural Disasters
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly destructive wildfires are one of the most consequential impacts of our changing climate, often precipitating a cascade of related disaste...
How Mexican Ranchers Tackle Sustainability Issues in Beef Production
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UC Davis Professor, Dr. Frank Mitloehner, and CLEAR Center members took to Mexico to attend the Congress Internationale de la Carne in León, Guanajua...
Can UC Berkeley Go Geothermal?
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UC Berkeley drills a 400-foot borehole to explore geothermal heating on campus. UC Berkeley plans to decommission its 40-year-old cogeneration plant ...
How UC Davis is Growing a Tree Canopy for Tomorrow's Climate
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Combating destructive effects of climate change, the Arboretum and Public Garden staff and Learning by Leading™ students plant test trees to cultiva...
Navigating the Climate Crisis: Meeting the Challenges Ahead
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The confluence of the accelerating climate crisis, more frequent and severe disasters, widespread systemic injustice and oppression, and any number of...
Climate Economics and Communication: Naming and Valuing What Matters
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As humans, we benefit immensely from the ecosystems around us — including the ocean — in obvious and not-so-obvious ways. As climate change contin...
SOARS: An Insider’s Look at Scripps Ocean Atmosphere Research Simulator
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scripps Ocean Atmosphere Research Simulator (SOARS) is a unique installation that's changing the way oceanographers study and understand processes th...
A Conversation with Author Kim Stanley Robinson
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What's the future look like with a changing climate? And who will lead the way to help us mitigate the environmental, economic and social impacts? In...
How Modern Slavery Touches Everyone
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Modern slavery, which encompasses 45 million people around the world, is intricately linked to the economy, politics, violence and war, gender and the...
How Modern Slavery Impacts the Environment with Kevin Bales
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are 45 million enslaved people in the world today. The links between slavery, conflict, environmental destruction, economics and consumption beg...
New Science for a Changing World: A Deep Look into Earth Day 2023
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UC San Diego's School of Biological Sciences presents another event in their Deep Look series focusing on Earth Day. UC San Diego researchers will off...
Dust and the Salton Sea - Urban Design for the Climate Crisis
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just a hundred miles to the east of San Diego, one of the largest inland lakes in the West is drying up as a result combined human activity and climat...
Big Data: The Path Toward Wildfire Resilience
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly frequent and intense wildfires in California and the western US are impacting communities across the state. Even areas not prone to fires...
Coral Reefs and the Power of Adaptation to Climate Change
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scripps Institution of Oceanography marine biologist Stuart Sandin illuminates his work leading the 100 Island Challenge, a project that uses high tec...
Local Communities Plan for Climate Resilience
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Coastal regions are susceptible to a host of threats to the natural environment and our quality of life as a result of climate change. Our beaches and...
Carbon Capture and Storage: The What Why and When
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the 2022 Carbon Sequestration Symposium at California State University, Bakersfield, Climate Now founder and host James Lawler moderates a ...
Design at Large: Climate Risk Reduction and Technology
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is an existential threat. The U.S. will face more frequent and extreme disasters in the coming years due to climate change. How can we ...
Ocean Exploration to Inform Climate Solutions and Biodiversity Conservation
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ocean is a critical component of climate solutions. Not only does the ocean have the potential to provide food security, but it can provide critic...
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Large-scale Human Modification of the Planetary Microbiome with Rob Knight
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Through the Earth Microbiome Program and complementary efforts, we have sampled a broad range of microbiomes from across the planet. All microbiomes t...
Climate Adaptation and Action – Lessons Learned from the State of California
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The State of California has been steadfast in battling climate change and has passed several pieces of legislation including the Global Warming Soluti...
Carbon Dioxide at Scale: Working Fast for an Equitable Future
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 2022 Carbon Sequestration Symposium at California State University, Bakersfield, focuses on engaging the community, industry, policymakers, and ac...
Climate Action Regional Security and the Road to the Summit of the Americas
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The United States Southern Command's (USSOUTHCOM) is responsible for providing contingency planning, operations, and security cooperation for Central ...
Design at Large: Alternative Transportation Futures
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In California, the car is king. Most travel is conducted by car across all socio-economic groups and has been incentivized by massive government inves...
The State of the Pacific Ocean: Climate Change and the Case for Expanded Hemispheric Cooperation
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spanning nearly 63 million square miles from California to China, the Pacific Ocean is by the far the largest of the world's ocean basins. The Pacific...
Our Oceans: Key To Storing Carbon?
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Using carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies to mitigate climate change is a land-intensive endeavor. To capture one gigatonne of CO2 through direct ...
Buried Treasure: Unearthing the Power of the Soil Carbon Bank
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Soil - that mixture of degraded bedrock, decomposing organic matter, and microorganisms that nourish the root systems of plants and trees - holds 4x m...
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Global Alteration of the Nitrogen Cycles by Humans with David Tilman
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Humans now annually add more biologically available nitrogen to the Earth’s land surfaces than do all natural processes. For 3 billion years, availa...
Carbon Dioxide Removal
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In order to reach global net-zero emissions by 2050, we must remove CO2 from the atmosphere as well as prevent further emissions. Carbon Dioxide Remov...
Social Cost of Carbon
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate economists have created a value called the "social cost of carbon" in order to better understand the cost/benefit relationship of climate poli...
CARTA - Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes - Anthropogenic Global Water Insecurity with Asher Rosinger
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and fres...
California's Path to Carbon Neutral
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
California is a pioneer in researching the impacts of and solutions to climate change. Getting to carbon neutral - or net zero carbon emissions - is ...
CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on The Oceans and the Anthropocene with Nancy Knowlton
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ocean is enormous, indeed so large that for centuries we assumed that there was nothing we could do to substantially harm it. Unfortunately, we no...
CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on We Alone: How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It with David (Jonah) Western
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Conservation is common to all societies which learned to live within ecosystem limits. In breaking the evolutionary and biological straight-jackets co...
Science Collaboration and Innovation Across Traditional Boundaries with Vicki Grassian - Exploring Ethics
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Through the lens of the study and impact of aerosols, Vicki Grassian argues that collaboration, innovation, and implementation are the only way forwar...
Institute of the Americas Climate Nationally Determined Contributions Report
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The impacts of climate change and the urgency to act have not gone unnoticed in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The Institute of the Americas (...
Research for Resilience on a Changing Planet - The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The ocean provides a bounty of essential life-supporting services. Yet, a changing climate and increasing human uses are altering marine ecosystems an...
Research for Resilience on a Changing Planet - Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) – part of the national U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) – works to co...
Research for Resilience on a Changing Planet - Drought in the West: Research and Scientific Tools for Coping with Climate Change
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Climate scientist Julie Kalansky discusses how drought in California and Nevada is a common occurrence, with the attendant water restrictions and thre...
Fire Extreme Rainfall and Debris Flows: Cascading Disasters in a Changing Climate - Impacts of Climate Change in California and The West
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the climate warms across the globe, California is faced with adapting to a range of climate-related challenges - from drought to increased wildfire...
Getting Warmer? Ocean Temperatures off the California Coast - Impacts of Climate Change in California and The West
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Local fishermen, surfers, and beachgoers know that ocean temperatures off California's coast vary, often expectedly, but sometimes unexpectedly. Join ...
Reimagining An Equitable Food System: Impact of Food Production on Agricultural Communities
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This presentation examines how the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries have created climate emergencies that have threatened global food producti...
The Art and Science of Atmospheric Rivers and the Changing Hydroclimate of the West - Impacts of Climate Change in California and The West
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
California's precipitation regime is the most volatile in the country. These large natural swings between drought and extremely rainy years make water...
Real-Time Control Mechanisms for Community Energy Management - Mahnoosh Alizadeh
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mahnoosh Alizadeh is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC Santa Barbara. Alizadeh’s research is focused on design...
The SmartFarm Project - Chandra Krintz
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chandra Krintz is a professor of Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. SmartFarm is a research project that investigates the design and implementa...
Towards a Zero-Carbon Electric Grid - David Erne
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Erne leads smart grid research for the California Energy Commission’s Energy Research and Development Division. In this role, he manages a por...
Groundwater Depletion Amplifies the Water-Energy Nexus - Debra Perrone
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Debra Perrone is an Assistant Professor of UCSB’s Environmental Studies Program. Deb integrates research methods from engineering, physical science,...
The Revolution in Data Center Communications and Interconnects - Raj Yavatkar
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Raj Yavatkar is Chief Technology Officer at Juniper Networks. He leads and executes the company’s critical innovations and products for intelligent ...
Photonic Integration for Data Centers - John Bowers
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Bowers is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. He is interested in energy efficiency and the development of nove...
Cloud-Scale Interconnect Architectures in the Context of Hardware and Software Codesign - Katharine Schmidtke
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Katharine Schmidtke is Director of Sourcing for ASICs and Custom Silicon at Facebook, the world’s largest social network and one of the five largest...
A Perspective from the California Agricultural Industry - Stuart Woolf
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stuart Woolf is President and CEO of Woolf Farming & Processing, a family owned operation whose primary business is the production and processing of a...
Moving Bits Not Watts - Sangwon Suh
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sangwon Suh is a professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research foc...
From Demand Response to Fleet Electrification: A Search for High Impact Solutions - Sila Kiliccote
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sila Kiliccote, CEO & co-founder of eIQMobility, has over 15 years of experience in building and leading teams to deliver impactful and innovative res...
Towards Dramatically Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning - William Wang
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
William Wang is the Director of UC Santa Barbara's Natural Language Processing group and Center for Responsible Machine Learning. Series: "Institute ...
Population Health Risks of a Changing Climate
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change affects the health of all Americans. The adverse health consequences are projected to worsen with additional climate change. Kristie Eb...
Politics and Division: The Sociology of Climate Change and Science Denial
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are humans rational beings guided by facts and information or do our moral views, desires, affiliations and motivations influence our perception of fa...