Carbon is the World’s Best Friend
By David Bellamy and Jack Barrett
History has it that an apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head allowing him to realise why, “what goes up must come down” and go on to formulate the basic laws of physics. Revisiting those laws in the infrared glow of the global-warming debate forces the realisation that when it comes to radiant heat, “what comes down must go up” – for if it didn’t, the Earth would overheat.