The book, What we Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel, tackles the extreme climate changes that we have been facing and why they are occurring. The book brings up many important reasons as to why we are dealing with climate change and the affects it will have on our world. It is a scary book to read because it is all factual and it is predicting a very bleak future for humans. Out of all the things she brought up in the book, the most terrifying to me is found on page 62, the first bullet point, where it says "the global mean temperature is now greater than at any other time in at least the past 500 to 1,000 years". That means that the planet is at the hottest it has every been in 1,000 years. The earth is getting to hot to handle and pehaps to even live on. I blame this on humans and the fact that we have led ourselves into dealing with a "runaway greenhouse effect". A runaway greenhouse effect is the outcome of too many carbon emissions and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and now we cannot control what happens to our environment. We never really could control what happens to the environment but we could have tried to keep it in a good condition. Now we have poisoned and destroyed the environment so much that we have no choice but to sit and watch it end.

We are at the highest mean temperature that we have never been in 1,000 years and we cannot fix it now. Even if everyone was to stop using gas powered cars and walk everywhere and all the factories in the world shut down, the problem would not be fixed. This especially stood out to me in the text because it was a hard pill to swallow that we are the reason for our demise. We struck the final blow to ourselves and now nature is making us pay. Our existence as a race is coming to an end we caused it. We, as humans, will suffer greatly.