Handprints on Hubble – with Kathryn D Sullivan
Ri Science Podcast
Earth's Response to Climate Change
The levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the rates at which it's being added are unequalled in any geological or historical record. We know for at least 800 thousand years a the planet itself is going to be fine. The rate of change is particularly high in the northern and southern latitudes, the arctic and the antarctic. So that what we will experience first of all are the kind of shocks and dislocations that come from flooded urban areas,. Water stress in places where there'r a lot of people living. Human populations have concentrated in places where food and water exist. And if those resources move away, you've stranded large populations. Society fraying, political fragmentation
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