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Bill McKibben SAYS the statistics regarding global warming suggest that Earth is on the verge of leaving the Holocene, the 11,000-year period of climatic stability:
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic. But to grasp the seriousness of our predicament, you just need to do a little math. For the past year, an easy and powerful bit of arithmetical analysis first published by financial analysts in the U.K. has been making the rounds of environmental conferences and journals, but it hasn’t yet broken through to the larger public. This analysis upends most of ...
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