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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Are MIT Students Smarter Than 5th Graders?

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 01:30 AM PDT
Ask any climate scientist to explain global warming to a fifth grader, and they will pull out the bathtub analogy: The atmosphere is the tub. The level of carbon is the water standing in said tub. There’s a spigot and a sink—water in and water out. For the longest time, carbon in and carbon out of the atmosphere have been in balance. Then man came along and fiddled with the spigot. Now there’s an ever increasing flow of carbon in, and the level in the atmosphere keeps rising. Simple enough.

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