Global warming experts, divided by COVID, take the jam session online
NorthJersey.com For fun, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert likes to consider what conditions are like on a planet called WD 0137-349B. Nuzzled up close to a white dwarf star located 330 light-years from earth, WD 0137-349B is a big planet where surface temperatures hit 3,100 degrees. That’s hot enough to vaporize rock into gas. What happens next? Pierrehumbert likes to picture it. All that superhot gas goes racing across the fiery surface of WD 0137-349B until it reaches the planet’s dark side, where it cools to a gray dust. Pierrehumbert plays with this image in his mind, a perpetual avalanche of...