This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Friday, 16 August 2024
What Happens Next?
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Director in New York, Gavin Schmidt, is worried. The 2023 temperature anomaly (the fact that the planet has heated up much more quickly than scientists had expected) concerns him. Schmidt suggests, in a paper in the journal Nature, that global heating is now moving beyond the ability of experts to predict what happens next (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/15/we-should-have-better-answers-by-now-climate-scientists-baffled-by-unexpected-pace-of-heating). Perhaps we have already reached one of these famous 'tipping points'? 'Tipping points' are when changes become self-reinforcing and very difficult (impossible?) to reverse.
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