“Full Speed Ahead…” The engine room of the historic icebreaker St Erik, one of the museum vessels in Stockholm harbor. Photo source: ©© Dans Le Grand Bleu
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The greatest climate change the world has seen in the last 100,000 years was the transition from the ice age to the warm interglacial period. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that, contrary to previous opinion, the rise in temperature and the rise in the atmospheric CO2 follow each other closely in terms of time.
“What we are observing in the present day is the mankind has caused the CO2 content in the atmosphere to rise as much in just 150 years as it rose over 8,000 years during the transition from the last ice age to the current interglacial period and that can bring the Earth’s climate out of balance…”
Read Full Article, Science Daily
We’re All Climate-Change Idiots, The New York Times
Climate change is staring us in the face. The science is clear, and the need to reduce planet-warming emissions has grown urgent. So why, collectively, are we doing so little about it?
Global Climate Change: A Primer, a book by Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey, illustrated with batik art by Mary Edna Fraser
“This timely, informative book is exactly what the public needs to understand the ongoing disruption of the earth’s climate. The authors present an excellent summary of what we know, and what we don’t know, about the planet’s climate…”
