Hot-house Earth
Creating a future
English - March 15, 2020 05:00 - 3 minutes - 3 MBPersonal Journals Society & Culture Science Natural Sciences climate social justice sustainability democracy european union environment collapse cooperative equality inspirational Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Global warming is not just about increasing the power of air-conditioning by 1 or 2°C. If left unchecked, some self-reinforcing phenomena can bring it totally out of control.
Global warming can be much worse than what you imagine
Global warming is not just about increasing the power of air-conditioning by 1 or 2°C. If left unchecked, some self-reinforcing phenomena can bring it totally out of control and lead to a destruction of the agriculture that feeds us… bearing in mind that without food, we simply die!
This episode is based on the following scientific articles:
Steffen et al."Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene", PNAS | August 14, 2018 | vol. 115 | no. 33 | pp. 8252–8259, freely downlodable at: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1810141115
Bador et al "Future summer mega-heatwave and record-breaking temperatures in a warmer France climate" 2017, Environ. Res. Lett. 12 074025, freely downloadable at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa751c