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From "springuary" for the winter that wouldn't leave to "hotumn" for the fall that never came, Canadians got a...
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From "springuary" for the winter that wouldn't leave to "hotumn" for the fall that never came, Canadians got a...
Why are some people more prone to seeing climate change as apocalyptic than others?
So we know that this is going on. if you connect the dots between these crises, it's pretty apocalyptic. but also in the ocean, which has absorbed about 90% of the excess heat that we've generated in the atmosphere, every year for the last six years has been the absolute record global ocean temperature. and it keeps going up, breaking records every year. so that's where most of the heat is stored. and it keeps reradiating into the atmosphere, causing these typhoons and super storms, droughts in one place and floods in another. >> cnn meteorologist derek van dam joins me now. what are you seein...
And it keeps breaking records every year. so that's where most of the heat is store and keep reradiating into the atmosphere causing these typhoons and super storms and droughts in some places and storms in another. >> when we talk about warning signs there have been decades of warning signs and warnings, and yet here we are. back in the 70s there were warnings from people like you. i mean, potentially how bleak are things, and what's the short to mid-term outlook? >> well, there certainly have been warning signs. again, if people would just connect the dots some clients have been observing ov...
I do. we're making enormous progress. i mean, you have to realise in the a0 years i've seen in the space industry, we didn't understand super storms. now we do. we didn't understand much about dark energy, dark matter. now we do and we're on it. and we also didn't recognise that there are planets around other stars. we didn't think we could even measure them and see them. now, we know there are more planets in our galaxy than there are stars, and many of them are in places much like the earth, where we receive the light from the sun and we can have water in not only liquid form, frozen form, a...