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How Many Trees Are There?
S4 E78 / 4m 15s
It may be an impossible questions, but we can at least get close.
Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.
Video description: As Earth warms, billions of people in the developing world will face life-threatening heat waves, raising demand for air conditioning. But powering all that cooling is going to take more energy, which will, paradoxically, require more fossil fuels burning, creating more carbon and more warming. So scientists are developing new kinds of air conditioning, including solid, refrigerants.