About
In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team -- one of thousands who contributed -- taking a risky flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TEDGlobal 2009
- Speaker
- Rachel Pike
- Year
- 2009
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Chemistry, Earth and environment
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
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