Hello ladies, enbies and gentlemen.
This is a video about the important issue of anthropocentric climate change.
If you don’t know much about this issue, New Scientist have an article entitled ‘Climate Change: A guide for the perplexed’ in which they explain the situation, including dealing with some of the most common myths about climate change.
See below for link.
Recently at their 41st summit, the G7, a forum of the world’s seven leading industrial nations announced plans to phase out fossil fuel by the end of the century.
While I’d like to be happy about this, with the window of opportunity closing as fast as it is, it seems to me the end of the century simply is not soon enough.
Back in 2006, NASA’s climate expert James Hansen said:
“We have a very short window of opportunity to address climate change. No more than a decade at the most.” (Sawin, 2007).
Biologist and environmental activist Beth Sawin likens climate change to a housefire or to an infection or to cancer, in that it is something that can be dealt with in its early stages, but if it is not dealt with, it will get to the stage where it will be too late for human intervention (Sawin, 2007).
I’ll post links below for anyone who is interested.
Thanks for watching.
New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11462-climate-change-a-guide-for-the-perplexed.html#.VZcLiqTZWrY
Sawin E. (2007). Climate Change: A Window Of Opportunity. Climate Interactive. https://www.climateinteractive.org/about/staff/beth-sawin-2/climate-change-a-window-of-opportunity/
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