Universe Plus: watch the new podcast episode on the website of the National Centre RUSSIA!

How is the climate changing? What will these changes bring? Why is Russia warming faster than other countries? How does climate affect people’s health and the economy? And when will we be able to predict the weather accurately? The new episode of the popular podcast "Universe Plus", filmed at the National Centre RUSSIA during the II International Symposium "Inventing the Future", has been released online. The episode is titled "What Threats Do Climate Changes Pose for Us?"

Alexei Semikhatov, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Chief Research Fellow at the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and host of the programme "Question of Science" on the "Science" TV channel, together with Vladimir Surdin, astronomer, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University and Senior Research Fellow at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University, discuss how the world around us works. Sometimes, to explore the topic more deeply, they invite experts from other fields. This time, the scientists invited meteorologist Pavel Konstantinov, Candidate of Geographical Sciences and Associate Professor at the Department of Climatology and Meteorology of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The experts discussed how global climate change affects nature, the economy and people’s daily lives. They explored which predictions are grounded in science and which are merely myths, and proposed possible ways to adapt to a changing world. The speakers also focused on climate modelling – a method that helps understand how weather will change in the future. For this, scientists use supercomputers and validated scientific models based, among other things, on the study of past data such as ice cores.

The podcast is also available on the website of the National Centre RUSSIA.