This topic brings to mind a line from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves”
As you saw in Chapter 12, the Earth is continually being irradiated and warmed by the Sun. This is, of course, a good thing. Without a sustained influx of solar radiation, which provides the heat energy necessary to maintain our planet at a livable temperature, our Earth would quickly cool down to an unlivable temperature. Life on this planet would cease. We would become just another cold rock drifting through space. So when we talk about excessive “global warming ...
