The Point of No Return -Scientists Compare Current Climate Change to Geologic Past
"We are pushing our planet into a place for which Homo sapiens did not evolve”
“How can you really compare these great events in the geologic past, which occur over such vast timescales, to what’s going on today, which is centuries at the longest?” asks Daniel Rothman, professor of geophysics and co-director of MIT’s Lorenz Center “So I sat down one day and tried to think about how one might go about this systematically.”