Climate Discovery Exhibit at NCAR

The Climate Discovery Exhibit explores Earth's past climate.

Learn about more recent climate history.

Climate Discovery documents current impacts of climate change.

Explore recent charts of the Earth's Climate System.

The Earth is warming up. Average surgace temperature is up 1 degree F over the last century.

Only when human-caused greenhouse gases are included in the climate models can we account for the observed recent warming.

Polar bears live and hunt on arctic sea ice that is rapidly melting.

Observe how climate change is impacting the Hawksbill sea turtle

Polar Adelie penguins are disappearing due to their changing habitat in Antarctica.

Climate Discovery explores future climate and the scientific models that assist in predicting future scenarios.

Models predict changes in arctic sea ice cover and thickness.

Find out what can be done about climate change.

Join others as you learn hands on in the Climate Discovery exhibit.

A visit to NCAR's Climate Discovery Exhibit tells the story of Earth's past climate and how it has been constantly changing since Earth began — long before human beings were around to study it. How do we know what Earth and its climate were like in prehistoric times? Visit our Climate Discovery exhibit to explore the clues to past climate from the Earth itself — ice frozen for millennia, fossilized plants, tree rings, and other artifacts that scientists analyze in many ways.

In Climate Discovery's "Climate in the News," see consequences of large-scale changes in the Earth system due to human activities — from warming land surface and ocean temperatures to changes in hurricane intensity and more.

In the exhibit's "Climate Future" series, learn about computer models and how they simulate climate, listen and view NCAR's climate experts in the video, Climate Future: Voices of Science, and explore strategies for reducing global warming and for adapting to a warming world.

If you're unable to visit the Mesa Lab Visitor Center in person, no worries! Explore the wealth of content NCAR provides online at our Understanding Climate Change site.