Recent Warming - How Do We Know?

The video discusses global temperature trends since 1850, highlighting a general warming trend with recent acceleration. It contextualizes current climate changes by comparing them to historical data, showing that climate has always been variable. Antarctic ice core data is used to illustrate temperature fluctuations over thousands of years.

Describe the general trend of temperature changes observed in the data.

What do the temperature data from the ice core indicate about historical temperature changes?