Louis Vis

“By 2100, if we do not halt emissions, as much as 5 percent of the world’s population will be flooded every single year.6 Jakarta is one of the world’s fastest-growing cities, today home to ten million; thanks to flooding and literal sinking, it could be entirely underwater as soon as 2050.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future

“During the ice age around 425,000 years ago (five ice ages before the most recent glaciation) a vast lake of water became trapped between the Scottish and Scandinavian ice sheets and the 30-kilometre-wide ridge of rock then still linking England and France. This lake was filled with meltwater from the ice sheets as well as the discharge from rivers like the Thames and Rhine. And with no outlet to escape through, the water rose and rose, until inevitably it began to spill over the top of the land bridge. These colossal waterfalls scooped out vast plunge pools on the channel floor and gouged backwards through the barrier until this natural dam collapsed. The entire trapped lake emptied itself as a catastrophic megaflood, widening the gaping breach in the barrier and carving the landforms on the floor of the Channel we can see with sonar today. This first megaflood 425,000 years ago”
― Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History

“Pretty much the entire wind pattern on Earth can therefore be explained by three simple facts: the equator is hotter than the poles, warm air rises, and the world spins.”
― Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History

“more than half of the carbon exhaled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been emitted in just the past three decades.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future