Over the last few weeks, there have been several headlines about climate change in the media, including the claim that the Earth may become unhabitable by the end of the century. Professor Kipping recaps what's happened and offers up some thoughts on these developments. Big thanks to the resources below used to make this video.
0:29: USA withdraws from the Paris Agreement
1:23: RSS revised analysis of satellite temperatures
2:18: Sea ice loss and new gigantic iceberg
2:58: "The Uninhabitable Earth" NY Magazine article
::More about this Video::
► The Paris Agreement, UNFCCC: http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php
► Latest global sea ice area plot by Wipneus: https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/grf/nsidc_global_area_byyear_b.png
► Carbon Brief news article on the RSS revised satellite temperatures: https://www.carbonbrief.org/major-correction-to-satellite-data-shows-140-faster-warming-since-1998
► "The Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells, New York magazine: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html
► Reflections by Professor Michael Mann on the Wallace-Wells article: https://t.co/MYt6ijQ8X1
► More about liberating methane from permafrost: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/01/much-ado-about-methane/
► Climate Scientist Gavin Schmidt Twiiter: https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin
► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu
► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu
► Video background music by Nick Caville: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv2WSDMBRxA
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