CNN’s Mark Lynas, visiting fellow at the Alliance for Science at Cornell University, writes an opinion piece describing the rate of climate change going “off the charts,” including ocean warming and acidification, a 10 fold increase in CO2 release from any past geologic records, rapid coral bleaching, catastrophic weather events, Greenland and Arctic melt and more.
“There is no known geological precedent, for at least the last half-billion years of the history of life on earth, for climate change of the magnitude now projected this century to take place over such a short period of time.
To think that young people alive today will experience all of this within their lifetimes is an extraordinary thought indeed.”
