
Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science
00:00
Is There a Fair Assessment of Climate Change?
Ice ages are fairly well documented to be happening every roughly hundred thousand years or so. They do that primarily because of the dynamics of ajst the orbit. The first mathematical proof of this was developed by malankovitch in 19 forty one, but nobody had the ability to test it. And key one is actually a northern hemisphere summer. So if you can just make those wobbles, make summers a little bit cooler, a little bit ice can survive. It takes about 80 thousands years to get a full ice age. Our full ice age is when you have ice sheets three kilometers thick over north america, over chicago,. You're talking about a huge amount of ice - on
Transcript
Play full episode