In the first half, professor of biology and environmental studies at New York University Michael R. Rampino discussed the science behind major planetary upheavals and extinction events. According to Rampino, the climate models run by his research team in the 1980s predicted exactly the kind of record temperatures we're experiencing with the current record-breaking heat waves. The cause, he went on, is the amount of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane that have been pumped into the Earth's atmosphere for decades by human activity― mostly rel… Lees meer