so I just to talk briefly about me
I took one class as an elective from
Carl Sagan there’s a long time ago and
so he was talking about was something he
a phrase that he loved Comparative
climatology so we compared the climate
of Mars with the climate of Venus with
the climate of the earth and then along
about this time with Pollock he was
working on this computer model of the
Earth’s climate and the big concern then
was nuclear winter so the premise of the
bit was that if you exploded enough
nuclear weapons in short enough amount
of time you would put enough debris in
the atmosphere to affect the world’s
climate and this turned out to be a
pretty reasonable idea really then
Walter Alvarez Adel found this crater of
Chicxulub Mexico that is almost
certainly the crater that this giant
impactor or comet or meteorite wiped out
the ancient dinosaurs the ancient
dinosaurs might have been having trouble
with volcanism with volcanoes in India
but the asteroids would finish them off
so you guys at Lafayette elementary
school mrs. McGonigle read to us from a
book when I was in second grade
the reason the ancient dinosaurs
disappeared is because the mammals took
all their food and the dinosaurs died
and you guys come on just come on
like I’m a Tyrannosaurus okay wait I’m
sorry I’m a Tyrannosaurus and there’s a
rabbit you know that’s it
I mean it’s it’s over in a moment and
she knew that she just she was she even
she knows this is lame so to the young
people here I say it wasn’t that long
ago that this discovery was made was in
my lifetime I was an adult I was out
paying taxes I had a job and now I mean
some of you were here in the year 2000
when Al Gore had this big environmental
agenda and but it wasn’t enough to
convince voters overwhelmingly to some
boredom and the world would be very
different if he had been elected and so
I claimed that this next election in
2016 is another huge turning point for
us you guys you have to be optimistic
and I don’t mean you look at the world
through so-called rose-colored glasses
and you’re delusional you have to
believe that the problem can be solved
or you’re not going to do anything about
it and the guy who is inspiring me right
now does not exist mark Watney is the
fictional character in the Martian who
solves all these problems he solves all
these problems through science and so at
least at the main level the problems
that we have with climate change are
going to be solved through technology
you
I took one class as an elective from
Carl Sagan there’s a long time ago and
so he was talking about was something he
a phrase that he loved Comparative
climatology so we compared the climate
of Mars with the climate of Venus with
the climate of the earth and then along
about this time with Pollock he was
working on this computer model of the
Earth’s climate and the big concern then
was nuclear winter so the premise of the
bit was that if you exploded enough
nuclear weapons in short enough amount
of time you would put enough debris in
the atmosphere to affect the world’s
climate and this turned out to be a
pretty reasonable idea really then
Walter Alvarez Adel found this crater of
Chicxulub Mexico that is almost
certainly the crater that this giant
impactor or comet or meteorite wiped out
the ancient dinosaurs the ancient
dinosaurs might have been having trouble
with volcanism with volcanoes in India
but the asteroids would finish them off
so you guys at Lafayette elementary
school mrs. McGonigle read to us from a
book when I was in second grade
the reason the ancient dinosaurs
disappeared is because the mammals took
all their food and the dinosaurs died
and you guys come on just come on
like I’m a Tyrannosaurus okay wait I’m
sorry I’m a Tyrannosaurus and there’s a
rabbit you know that’s it
I mean it’s it’s over in a moment and
she knew that she just she was she even
she knows this is lame so to the young
people here I say it wasn’t that long
ago that this discovery was made was in
my lifetime I was an adult I was out
paying taxes I had a job and now I mean
some of you were here in the year 2000
when Al Gore had this big environmental
agenda and but it wasn’t enough to
convince voters overwhelmingly to some
boredom and the world would be very
different if he had been elected and so
I claimed that this next election in
2016 is another huge turning point for
us you guys you have to be optimistic
and I don’t mean you look at the world
through so-called rose-colored glasses
and you’re delusional you have to
believe that the problem can be solved
or you’re not going to do anything about
it and the guy who is inspiring me right
now does not exist mark Watney is the
fictional character in the Martian who
solves all these problems he solves all
these problems through science and so at
least at the main level the problems
that we have with climate change are
going to be solved through technology
you
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