Fossil fuel burning must taper off dramatically and be replaced with renewable sources of energy if we are going to outlive as a species on this planetMountain glaciers and humans contain coexisted for roughly 200000 years,but that long idyll appears to be ending. The earth’s 190000 glaciers, sentinels of climate change that appear to be more sensitive to the climate than are humans, and are disappearing at an unprecedented pace,the canaries in climate change’s coal mine. Related: Climate change is so dire we need a current kind of science fiction to make sense of it | Claire L Evans Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com