CNN’s “Newsroom” co-host Jim Sciutto on Wednesday contemplated whether the human race is running out of time to curb rising global temperatures, saying humans “don’t want to be slowly burned to death.”
Sciutto made the comments during a discussion with Andrea Dutton, an associate professor of geology at the University of Florida.
Sciutto referenced President Donald Trump’s recent Washington Post interview, where he dismissed the federal government’s landmark climate change report released last week, questioning the human impact on climate change and the scientific consensus.
“The president also either deliberately or mistakingly messes up the distinction between a clean environment and a warming environment. He keeps saying, ‘Well, we have record clean environment’ [and] doesn’t get to the temperature issue,” Sciutto said.
“I just want to ask the question for folks at home, folks like us. We got kids. We don’t want to be slowly burned to death on our own planet here,” said Sciutto, who served in the Obama State Department prior to joining CNN. “Is the human race running — in the simplest terms, running out of time to take the measures necessary to rein in this rise in global temperatures?”
Sciutto’s remark follows the National Climate Assessment’s comprehensive 1,600-page report about the dangerous effects of global warming on the United States’ agriculture, infrastructure, and the overall economy, the Hill reported.
“Global average temperature has increased by about 1.8 [degrees] from 1901 to 2016, and observational evidence does not support any credible natural explanations for this amount of warming,” the report reads. “Instead, the evidence consistently points to human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse or heat-trapping gases, as the dominant cause.”
“The warming trend observed over the past century can only be explained by the effects that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, have had on the climate,” the assessment reads.
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CNN’s Jim Sciutto is absolutely correct in saying that “humans do not want to be slowly burned to death.” Who would? But what in the world does this have to do with climate and global warming, public policy or anything else going on around here?
The warming is easily explained and has absolutely nothing to do with “greenhouse gas”. For one thing they label CO2 as a greenhouse gas. SCIENTIFICALLY IMPOSSIBLE AS IT THE SPECIFIC GRAITY OF CP2 IS 1.52 OR IN OTHER WORDS 152% HEAVIER THAN AIR. IT SINKS TO THE GROUND WHEN IT IS RELEASED. THAT IS WHY THEY PUT IT IN FORE EXTINGUISHERS BECAUSE IT DOES SINK TO THE GROUND AND SMOTHERS THE FIRE FROM 02
The reason for the warming is the invention of the asphalt shingle just coincidentally invented 100 years ago when the warming started. They went into
wide spread use very quickly because they were so much cheaper than the wood shake shingles that had to be hand split and therefore were labor intensive and very expensive. Now the problem with asphalt shingles is that on a 100 degree day the temp coming off the asphalt shingle roof will register anywhere from 140-170 degrees. The temp of the wood shake shingled roof on a 100 degree day will register 100 degrees. I am surprised that the temp has not increased more than the 1 and a fraction degrees