The scorching truth: Extreme heat is a wake-up call to act on climate change - The Philadelphia Tribune
The scorching truth: Extreme heat is a wake-up call to act on climate change | Commentary | phillytrib.com
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Are you one of the more than 100 million Americans who live somewhere that was (or still is) under a heat advisory?
As I write these words, the mercury is soaring. The world is reeling from the deadly impact of extreme heat and weather events. This is climate change in action. We are living it. And the thermometer-busting temperatures are just the tip of the (melting) iceberg.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.