The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail

 Originally published on June 13 2017 by The Conversation

Australian scientists Ben Henley and Nerilie Abram made a short video that puts our effect on CO₂ emissions and the climate into context…

There are those who say the climate has always changed, and that carbon dioxide levels have always fluctuated. That’s true. But it’s also true that since the industrial revolution, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere have climbed to levels that are unprecedented over 0hundreds of millennia. Continue reading or watch the video here…