Video Climatology Webinar

How Plants Influence Weather and Climate

  • By Professor Christopher Skinner
  • Oct 20, 2021

Get a whole new understanding of weather through this fascinating talk from Professor Christopher Skinner of the University of Massachusetts Lowell! 

Plants move more water each day than the discharge of all the rivers in the world combined. How does that impact our weather and climate? How do our own interactions with plants change weather and climate? And what is corn sweat?

Take a deep dive on this fascinating topic that Professor Skinner makes highly accessible and engaging.  

Technical Notes: There is a slight freeze in the speaker's video stream from around the 13:00 minute mark to about 13:53. Fast forward or get some snacks during this pause. The talk continues afterwards. 

There is also mention of a paper by Tyler Harrington where the link is not visible. You can access that here

The final bullet point on the final slide reads: Changes in plant physiology and distribution from 1) rising CO2 and 2) precipitation/temperature change, will impact future weather and climate

Thanks to Professor Skinner, Tyler Harrington and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell for this great talk!