Global Warming, It's All About Carbon

You probably know that one of the major reasons for the current trend of global warming is our perpetual and uncompromising willingness to discount the future for the sake of immediate gratification and profits.

What you might not know is that the other major reason is that in the chemical world, carbon is one major slut, always bonding into threesomes with the oxygen twins, and thereby producing the green-house effect. When this effect runs of control, it leads directly to global warming. Robert Krulwich explains.

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