Monday, March 04, 2019

CLIMATE CHANGE - All-Encompassing Threat

COMMENT:  Understand the difference between Climate Change (Global Warming) and weather.  Weather is what is happening now, in you own back yard.  Global Warming, the key word is 'global,' which means the entire atmosphere of the Earth.  Anyone familiar with boiling water, know that a 1qt pan can heat to a rolling-boil in a few minutes, but a 4qrt pan will take many minutes (if at all depend on you stove).  It takes much more energy (heat) to boil a large quantity of water, now think about that and the entire atmosphere of the Earth.  So a sustained rise in global temperature of 1º+ is significant, and in terms of global history may lead to an Ice Age.

"Why climate change is an ‘all-encompassing threat’" PBS NewsHour 3/1/2019

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  Although a candidate just entered the 2020 presidential race with a platform centered on climate change, some experts say Americans aren’t fully aware of the scope and seriousness of global warming.  Among them is David Wallace-Wells, who argues in a new book that the severity of the climate crisis has not yet been acknowledged, let alone addressed.  He sits down with William Brangham to discuss.

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