Historical weather information helps meteorologists and climatologists understand past trends in weather changes, which helps them forecast and predict future weather.
Given the real consensus among climatologists over global warming, many scientists find the medias desire to portray the topic as a scientific controversy to be a gross distortion.
Climatologists are primarily interested in albedo integrated over the shortwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (300 to 3500 nm), which coincides with the main solar energy input.
Those interviewed for the strand are those involved in the earth sciences: climatologists, meteorologists, geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, ecologists, glaciologists and oceanographers.
