Katharine Hayhoe: 30 Second Science

(gentle music) - I study what climate change means for us in the places where we live, whether we live on the eroding coastline up in Alaska, whether you're a farmer in the Central Valley of California, or in the heart of the Great Plains, I figure out what climate change means for us.

And what we see is two important things.

And we're gonna have to start again because I should have made that part quicker.

(laughs) (record scratches) (beeps) I study what climate change means to us in the places where we live.

How does it matter to us, what's already affecting us today, and what does climate change mean in the future?

What we see are two important things.

First of all, climate is already changing.

And second of all, the magnitude of future changes depend on the choices that we make now and in the next decade.

Was that 30 seconds?

(laughs) (gentle music)