From space, astronaut sounds the alarm about climate crisis
The Associated Press
A French astronaut has used a video call from space to sound the alarm about worsening repercussions from climate change that he can see ______ the International Space Station.
Entire regions of Earth in flames. Storms trailing destruction in their wake. And the haunting fragility of humanity’s only home floating like a blue — but also tarnished — pearl in the vastness of space.
Through the portholes the International Space Station, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has an arresting view of global warming’s repercussions. He used a video call from space to sound the alarm Thursday, as negotiators, government officials and activists continued meeting at a U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
“We see the pollution of rivers, atmospheric pollution, things like that.”
“We saw entire regions burning from the space station, Canada, in California,” he said. “We saw all of California covered a cloud of smoke and flames with the naked eye from 400 kilometers (250 miles) up.”
Adapted from https://abcnews.go.com
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