Back to Basics

What with the recent elections, the Affleck/Harris fiasco, and my continual commentary on the collision of faith and climate science, things arguably have wandered a bit far afield here at whac-a-troll lately. One might even say it's been getting downright esoteric around these parts, so it's probably a good time to revisit some core, meat-and-potatoes evidence for how the majority of scientists over a range of disciplines have become convinced the Earth is warming and our fossil fuel emissions are responsible.

And what better way to do that than with the infectious enthusiasm of Dr. Richard Alley? Here he is briefly explaining the essentials of how we know what we know when it comes to climate change.



That video is part of a more extensive National Science Foundation playlist entitled To What Degree: How Do We Know?. It was posted over a year ago, and each video having only a few hundred views is somewhat surprising to me. But, you know, I suppose people have better things to do like watching more cat videos. Sigh. It's well worth watching the whole thing.