Climate change is here — and worse than we thought

image courtesy of Tom Toles

www.washingtonpost.com - published August 3, 2012 - by James E. Hansen (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies)

 When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988 , I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet. I painted a grim picture of the consequences of steadily increasing temperatures, driven by mankind’s use of fossil fuels.

But I have a confession to make: I was too optimistic.

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