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    - Gavin Schmidt discusses how climate cannot be reduced or studied in isolation, as it involves interactions across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, from microscopic particles to the entire planet over thousands of years. - Climate models have expanded the scales they can capture over time, but still have limitations as they are approximations and cannot replace observations of the future. - Emergent properties like ocean currents and storms arise from complex interactions across scales that are difficult for models to represent fully.

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    - Gavin Schmidt discusses how climate cannot be reduced or studied in isolation, as it involves interactions across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, from microscopic particles to the entire planet over thousands of years. - Climate models have expanded the scales they can capture over time, but still have limitations as they are approximations and cannot replace observations of the future. - Emergent properties like ocean currents and storms arise from complex interactions across scales that are difficult for models to represent fully.

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    - Gavin Schmidt discusses how climate cannot be reduced or studied in isolation, as it involves interactions across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, from microscopic particles to the entire planet over thousands of years. - Climate models have expanded the scales they can capture over time, but still have limitations as they are approximations and cannot replace observations of the future. - Emergent properties like ocean currents and storms arise from complex interactions across scales that are difficult for models to represent fully.

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    TED Talk With Gavin Schmidt Climate Change Video Notes

    - You can't chop climate into smaller parts


    - You can't use the normal products of reductionism to get a smaller and small thing that
    he can study in a laboratory and say “Oh that is something that I now understand” (It's
    the whole or nothing)

    - The different scales that give you these type of patterns range over an enormous range
    of magnitude
    - Roughly 14 orders of magnitude from the small microscopic particles that seed clouds to
    the size of the plant itself from 10 to the minus six to 10 to the eight (14 orders of spatial
    magnitude)

    - Weather model (Spans about five orders of magnitude from the planet to a few
    kilometers)
    - And the time scale from a few minutes to 10 days maybe a month

    - Climate change models in 1990 (Only about 3 orders of magnitude)


    - Climate Change models in 2010 (four orders of magnitude)
    - Have 14 to go

    - What does a climate model look like:


    - Old punch card - (Punch card, a single line of fortran code)

    - Swirls in southern ocean, the tropical cyclone in the gulf of Mexico, rivers of atmospheric
    water- are Emergent Properties that come from the interactions of all the small scale
    processes he mentioned

    - Wobbles in earth’s orbit over hundreds and thousands of years, changes in the solar
    cycle every 11 years and longer, Big volcanoes go off, changes of biomass burning in
    smoke and aerosol particles, ozone hole, deforestation, contrails, greenhouse gases
    ALL cause climate change

    - Models are always wrong they are approximations


    - A model result is skillful if it gives better predictions than a simpler alternative

    - If we had observations of the future, we obviously would trust them more than models
    but unfortunately observations of the future and not available at this time
    Personal Takeaway:

    When I watched the video I was really engaged in what he was saying. He made many
    important key points that I learnt a lot from. A few key points he made were that climate isn’t
    something small, you can’t just learn a small portion of it and say you know what it is. You need
    to learn about the whole thing in order to understand it fully. I learnt that climate models aren’t
    always right, they are just approximations, but they do help us understand some sort of pattern.
    Models are all we really have that can help us predict what the climate may be, of course we
    aren’t gonna be right, but approximately we should be close to what we have predicted. Overall,
    watching this video made me recognize how many things we do not know about climate change
    and how many aspects/things on earth affect it and moreover how we should be aware of what
    our climate is in our region.

    Why don’t they use Punch Cards anymore?

    How can we help prevent Climate change since we can’t fully stop it? How can we lower the
    chances?

    What will it take for us humans to change our living ways/actions and help prevent things from
    affecting our climate?

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