Global Heating 101: Rapid-Fire Answers to the Biggest Climate Questions
The Great Simplification #141 with Stefan Rahmstorf
The science surrounding our planet’s dynamic and complex climate can be difficult to understand, and perhaps even more challenging to decipher what the actual realities and trajectories are among so much media coverage. Yet the study of Earth’s systems has been ongoing for decades, with a majority of scientists reaching a consensus on the realities of human-driven global heating.
In this episode, ocean and climate physicist Stefan Rahmstorf joins me for an overview on the most common questions and misconceptions concerning the state of the climate, including the nuances of what our future planetary home might look like.
How can carbon dioxide – which makes up such a small percentage of the atmosphere – have such a large effect on the temperature of the whole planet? Why does warming have such huge ripple effects across the biosphere – from ocean currents and wind patterns to extreme weather and wildfires? What do projections for the future tell us about the survivability of some of Earth’s most populated regions – and how can communities and nations prepare and mitigate these challenges amid many other converging crises we face?
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What if* we are invoking atmospheric stillness?
The same of the conveyor slowing, how not the atmosphere of movement?
Maybe as with the bee rescue is no longer a habit of nuisance but a realization of pollinators to save, maybe the same truth is of ‘storm’ that mixes the atmospheric reset of strata toxicology, fine particulate, heavy particulate attractors, returning to earth and ocean as the outer atmosphere sloughs off in to space? (Hydrogen)
An article on sputtering.
Fabulous! Thankyou.