{"id":378987,"date":"2018-09-29T00:41:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T23:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/understanding-climate-change-and-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2018-09-29T00:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T23:41:04","slug":"understanding-climate-change-and-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/understanding-climate-change-and-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Climate Change and Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Review of Guy Lane’s book What Comes Next: Climate Change, the Future and You.<\/p>\n

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There are no hidden secrets about anthropogenic global warming. It\u2019s everywhere, wherever one looks! After all, the People\u2019s Climate March (311,000) in 2014 organized by 350.org (Bill McKibben) was one of the biggest rallies ever held in NYC.<\/p>\n

Also, worldwide exposure was ubiquitously on display at the Paris Agreement\/2015 assemblage to tackle climate change, involving all of the nations of the world, in full living color.<\/p>\n

Name another event that garners more worldwide attention than \u201cclimate change\u201d and its kissing cousin \u201cglobal warming.\u201d They\u2019ve become the equivalent of \u201cbrand names\u201d all on their own, superstars, Madison Ave not needed. Move over Coke, global warming has top billing!<\/p>\n

But wait! \u00a0There\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n

Few people really, truly understand climate change\/global warming because of scientific gobbledygook that confuses, for example: (1) Unique language- \u201cpositive feedback loops\u201d or \u201calbedo\u201d (2) Extent- \u00a0\u201cslowing thermohaline\u201d (3) Measurement- \u201cKeeling Curve\u201d (4) Tipping points \u201cmethane clathrates\u201d (5) Geological cycles such as \u201cHolocene.\u201d Or, how about Anthropogenic or Pleistocene?<\/p>\n

Those unfamiliar exotic words are unique to climate science but foreign to the Average Joe, thus overwhelming and feeling kinda dumb. Accordingly, how can people discuss or ponder the issue? They can\u2019t! And, they don\u2019t! Ipso facto, the biggest…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Review of Guy Lane’s book What Comes Next: Climate Change, the Future and You. There are no hidden secrets about anthropogenic global warming. It\u2019s everywhere, wherever one looks! After all, the People\u2019s Climate March (311,000) in 2014 organized by 350.org (Bill McKibben) was one of the biggest rallies ever held in NYC. Also, worldwide exposure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}