January 30, 2002: Science Writer - Eugene Linden
Feb 23, 2025•2 hr 31 min•Season 2002Ep. 822
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Art Bell welcomes science writer Eugene Linden to discuss the fragile relationship between climate stability and human civilization. Linden argues that all modern prosperity has grown within a remarkably stable climate period, and that rapid shifts could unravel everything. He explains how thermohaline circulation works, describing how warming could paradoxically trigger sudden cooling by disrupting the Gulf Stream, and cites ice core evidence showing temperatures once plummeted 20 degrees in… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/january-30-2002-science-writer-eugene-linden
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