Ken Caldeira's Antarctic melting research in The New Yorker

"It’s true that right now our fossil-fuel resources remain vast; but it’s also true that, if we keep burning through them at current rates, they’ll be gone in less time than it took for the Roman Empire to rise and fall. If earlier societies had done what we’re doing, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist," The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert says of Ken Caldeira's Antarctic melting paper. More