Breaking Down: Collapse

Daily Episode 227 - Hothouse Earth by mid century?

Breaking Down: Collapse

Show Notes

Two new pieces of research highlight the earth is potentially warming much faster than previously thought, and that the models are wrong (imagine that):

World may warm by 25 per cent more than current projections suggest | New Scientist Hothouse Earth: arriving sooner than you think… planetary-solvency.pdf (PDF) Global warming acceleration in satellite observed lower-tropospheric temperature | Research Square The world inches closer to catastrophic climate events | AP News

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