it s impacting society in such a large way but it s unavoidable for, as she says, most americans? well, i didn t think dr. woodcock s comments were particularly helpful. a, i haven t seen the evidence that she seems to be citing here. i haven t seen evidence that most people are going to get it. that s an empirical statement which has to have evidence behind it. and second, the thing that she said about it is that we have to keep our systems functioning in that context, but the way to keep systems functioning is to make sure that even if you believe that everyone is going to get covid, that it doesn t happen all at the same time, which means that people have to do things to protect themselves and one another, whether that is making sure that they are wearing their masks, getting vaccinated, using rapid tests, but if you tell people that they re just going to get it anyway, then you ve killed the incentive that people have to protect themselves, to slow the spread and make sure they d
quote, the human fingerprint is more evident today. tell us why. well, part of this has to do with the ongoing warming that the planett is experiencing. even in the seven years in which this report, i m linking climate to weather patterns and extreme events. in that seven years, we have seen the global temperature rise about a quarter degree celsius. sounds like a small number, but it has a huge effect on not just extreme weather but the way those weather patterns are impacting society. understood. and just for our folks at home, this data just struck me, that the arctic air temperatures for the past five years, 2014 to 2018, have exceeded all previous records since 1900. the hottest five years in the last five years. i got a taste of that. i went to the arctic in march with the u.s. navy. the u.s. navy chronicles, tracks the shrinking of the arctic ice as well. and we got a vision of that from up there. it s clear. you can see it. you can see it in the air.