Climate change is no longer a future threat but a present challenge: Bridget Lewis
Kourosh Ziabari - ODVV: It was in 1965 when scientists on the US President’s Science Advisory Committee broached the idea of a “greenhouse effect” that was sparking concerns about the rising temperature of the Earth, and no more than a decade later, the distinguished geoscientist Wallace Broecker coined the term “global warming”, which took a while to enter the mainstream debate but carved a fundamentally new path for research and excavation into how anthropogenic activities accelerate the heating of the planet and endanger the lives of humans and other species. The international community’s fight to tackle climate change as a concern of universal proportions started more than three decades ago, when the...
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