Great Read on Climate Change from Wall Street Journal

A great article was published about climate change in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Steven Koonin, a computational physicist with 40 years of scientific research under his belt, broke down climate change in an excellent fashion. Koonin addresses what we know about climate change now, and what are some of the unanswered questions moving forward.

“The crucial scientific question for policy isn’t whether the climate is changing. That is a settled matter: The climate has always changed and always will.”

“There is little doubt in the scientific community that continually growing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, due largely to carbon-dioxide emissions from the conventional use of fossil fuels, are influencing the climate.”

“Rather, the crucial, unsettled scientific questions for policy is, ‘How will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?'”

The intriguing article then goes on to explain some of the difficulties in predicting climate change. Ultimately, there is still a lot of information on climate science that we do not know.