[MCN] The Coronavirus and Climate Change, the Great Crises of Our Time

[Lance Olsen]

The Coronavirus and Climate Change, the Great Crises of Our Time <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiELHJrN0N4jU6SASFE_ubh6AqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowjMqjCjCJhZwBMNWYrQM?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
We face two crises of the natural world: a novel virus causing a sudden pandemic, and the ongoing climate emergency. What can one teach us about the other?
The New Yorker <https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMIzKowowiYWcAQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
Yesterday
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"In 1972, pursuing his calculations of ice-cover feedbacks, Budyko declared that, at the rate we were pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, the ice covering the Arctic Ocean might melt entirely by 2050." 

"Most scientists spoke more cautiously.”

Spencer Weart. The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change. 
Physics Today, American Institute of Physics
<<https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1611350>>
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“The most painful and expensive way to deal with global climate change will be to ignore it until something happens that elicits powerful public demands for immediate and Draconian action.”
 
Jonathan Lash. “As the earth heats up. “  
Journal of Commerce, August 16, 1996.



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