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The sky is literally falling because of climate change, says top NASA scientist
As the world reaches a globally significant carbon emissions milestone, the sky
is literally falling as as result of climate change, says a top scientist at NASA.
This year was the hottest year on record according to the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) and saw globally averaged concentrations of carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere not seen in roughly three million years.
"Carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere and when the stratosphere cools, it actually
shrinks the size of the atmosphere," Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, told National Observer. "So if you’re about 80 kilometres
up, you actually are seeing the sky falling. It’s going down by a number of kilometres.”