James Hansen's New Climate Warning

by Janet Ritz

Cross-posted at The Huffington Post

NASA climate scientist, James Hansen, has published a paper with a warning that the long-term increase in temperature, which may be between 3 and 6 degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees F), brings us "dangerously close" to climate tipping points:

The Earth’s history provides a sobering perspective on prospects for climate change. The Earth’s climate is sensitive to changes in climate forcings, human-made forcings now overwhelm natural climate forcings, and the climate system is dangerously close to tipping points that could have disastrous consequences.

Hansen, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies scientist whose work was previously censored edited by the Bush Administration goes on to say...[more]

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