To provide some of that knowledge, Schmidt, a climatologist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, wrote a few accompanying essays and solicited several others from colleagues. The book emphasizes the complexity of the climate change problem, noting the wide range of greenhouse gases that engender warming (not just carbon dioxide but also methane, aerosols and more), the many ways we release them, and the varied regional effects they produce. Climate change is not a one-dimensional problem with a simple solution, so we need to grasp the totality of the global climate system.
Since much of what the public knows about climate change is complex studies condensed by journalists to what the non-scientist can easily digest, the picture given of the issue is not so much wrong, but not as complicated as it actually is. Driving a gas guzzler, along with inefficient lighting and heating is not the bottom line. We’re creating an environmental stew of various chemicals.
The interview is about the book Climate Change: Picturing the Science, by Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe
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