
86: Our Climate Guy – Nobel Prize Recipient Michael Mann on COP-26
The Al Franken Podcast
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Climate Change - Is That Really a Problem?
A hundred million years ago, when the dinosaurs roamed the planet, during the mid part of the cretaceous perioda carbon dioxide levels were substantially higher than they are to day. A lot ofthat carbon got buried beneath the ground in the form of petroleum oil, natural gas, coal. That's the carbon that was up there in the atmosphere, making the planet so warm a 100 million years ago. What are we doing? We're taking all that carbon that got buried over a hundred million years, and were pumping at pack up into the atmosphere over a hundred years, a million times faster. And it's the rate of warming and the rate of climate change, now that is without
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