Climate Exhibit

One wall of the Climate Exhibit showing wall signage, model of an ice core, and a cross section of tree rings.

What's the difference between climate and weather? How do we know our climate is changing? What steps can we take to address climate change? Check out our second-floor Climate exhibit to find the answers to these questions and more!

Featured Topics

  • Scientists know about Earth’s historical global climate from measurements with ice cores, tree rings, ocean sediment cores, and other methods.
  • Supported by data and observations, Earth’s global climate is changing due to human influence.
  • There are many solutions and tools to address climate change, which involve mitigating and adapting to its effects.;

Interactives

The physical interactives listed below are just a few of the many throughout this exhibit!

  • Learn the story that tree rings can tell us about climate over time and examine a segment from a 491-year-old tree!
  • Test out how your daily choices can affect Earth's climate with the Choose Our Future interactive.
  • Share your climate story and read how others have experienced climate change.
  • Explore how massive ice sheets helped shape North America’s wind patterns and influenced the weather and climate during the last Ice Age.

Touchscreens

Use the touchscreens throughout this exhibit to learn more about climate, compare CO2 data, watch videos about climate and first-person accounts of climate change, play with interactive simulations, and listen to the sounds of climate change on the Sounding Climate screen.

A view of the climate exhibit that shows the "Choose Your Future" interactive with exhibit signs along the walls on both the left and right sides.