Climate Accord Decision Is A Win For Self-Destruction
The Trump Administration's choice to leave the Paris climate deal will have consequences that will not be measured in election cycles or decades or even generations, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.
We astronomers are trained to think long.
A hundred million years, a hundred thousand years — after a while these impossible-seeming timescales become so familiar you can kind of feel them in your bones.
That training also yields an unusual perspective on the daily events of politics. Sometimes, when I worry about or , I think about how people in Imperial Rome (2,000 years ago), Song Dynasty China (1,000 years ago) or the Iroquois Nation (400
