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James Hansen out-Gore's Gore on GW Apocalypse Timing
Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 10:20AM It was James Hansen and others who kicked off the great global warming delusion back in the 1980s. Now he's at it again claiming the world has just ten years - less than he previously thought - before it reaches the climate "tipping point".
The trouble with scientists who make these apocalyptic statements of course is that they are then forced to make more and more extreme statements to justify them as their whole reputation is now at stake. Presumably, in ten years time, when Hansen's ludicrous predictions are finally outed NASA will finally be forced to sack him. For now though...
Even "moderate additional" greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past "critical tipping points" with "dangerous consequences for the planet," according to research conducted by NASA and the Columbia University Earth Institute.
With just 10 more years of "business as usual" emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas, says the NASA/Columbia paper, "it becomes impractical" to avoid "disastrous effects."
The study appears in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Its lead author is James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
The forecast effects include "increasingly rapid sea-level rise, increased frequency of droughts and floods, and increased stress on wildlife and plants due to rapidly shifting climate zones," according to the NASA announcement.
Recent Climate Reports Underestimated How Soon
By heralding the new research paper, NASA is endorsing science that places considerably more urgency on the need to reduce emissions to avoid "disastrous effects" of global warming than was evident in the recent reports from the world's scientists coordinated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
As the tipping points pass, "there is an acceleration, potentially uncontrollable, of emissions of vast natural stores of greenhouse gas," according to Hansen, who reviewed the study for ABC News today.
Source: ABC News
Ed. Just one further thought. Every time a skeptic writes a piece they are accused of "taking the oil dollar" (that's because that is much easier than actually engaging with the argument). Would it be too much to suggest that ABC paid Hansen for this study?
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