Denniston Interviewed in Newsweek Article

Newsweek published an article, “Hothouse Earth: Climate Domino Effect could lead to Runaway Global Warming,” which features comments from an interview with William Harmon Norton Professor of Geology Rhawn Denniston.

The article is about a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about how the combined effects of several climatic processes could push the Earth into a state of runaway warming.

“Greenhouse gases are constantly being added to and subtracted from the atmosphere by natural processes,” Denniston told Newsweek. “Human activity has profoundly interfered with these systems. When we burn fossil fuels, we are taking carbon that was slowly pulled out of the air over millions of years and stored in the ground as coal and oil, and pumping it back to the atmosphere in a geologic blink of an eye. This causes the atmosphere to warm, which causes all sorts of side effects.”

Denniston has dedicated years to studying and researching climate change and the environment.