Global Warming Time Bomb - James Hansen Testifies
June 28, 2008 at 12:00PM The curious part about these dire warnings for urgent action is how the language used suggests that the disaster will affect all EXCEPT human beings, instead of making the obvious connections and implications: disrupted/collapsing food chains, the normalization of extreme weather and associated agricultural production and industry crises, dislocations, and devastation, etc.
Today (062308), Hansen, 67, plans to testify at a House committee hearing that it is almost, but not quite, too late to start defusing what he calls the "global warming time bomb." He will offer a prescription for cuts in emissions and also a warning about the risks of further inaction.
"If we don't begin to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next several years, and really on a very different course, then we are in trouble," Hansen said Friday at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, which he has directed since 1981. "Then the ice sheets are in trouble. Many species on the planet are in trouble."
SFGATE: Scientist hasn't cooled crusade against warming, Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, Monday, June 23, 2008. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/23/MNI311DGDL.DTL&type=science
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