{"article":{"id":201300,"heading":"Dr. James Hansen Amps Up Language on Climate","author":"reposted","created":"2007-06-22 15:21:55","modified":"2007-06-22 15:21:55","last_modified":"Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:21:55","article":"

\"Planet Earth today: imminent peril\"

\"...and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save

it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous

climate change.\"

Predicting that sea levels will rise several meters by 2100, the

report states \"Recent greenhouse gas emissions place the Earth

perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of

control, with great dangers for humans and other creatures\".

\"Civilization developed, and constructed extensive infrastructure,

during a period of unusual climate stability, the Holocene, now

almost 12,000 years in duration. That period is about to end\".

Human societies and civilization are unlikely to survive if the climate

\"flips\" out of control from feedbacks that the report goes into great

detail on.

Humanity cannot afford to burn the Earth's remaining underground

reserves of fossil fuel. \"To do so would guarantee dramatic climate

change, yielding a different planet from the one on which civilization

developed and for which extensive physical infrastructure has been

built,\" they say.

Stating that 'draconian measures' are needed, they also said that

\"If we have not already passed the dangerous level, the energy

infrastructure in place ensures that we will pass it within several

decades\".

Dr. Hansen has been saying for three years that we have, at best,

ten years to stop the rise in CO2 emissions and start their

decline, or the earth will become 'a different planet' than what we

have taken for granted for thousands of years. But we have seen

very little changed in government policy and it appears that Dr.

Hansen feels it is necessary to take it up a notch.

Once again the US corporate media refuses to tell the public

about an important report on climate change with the exception

being rawstory.com and a British news source - The Independent.

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Climate Change and trace gases, {full text]

http:\/\/www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk\/content\/l3h462k7p4068780\/fulltext.pdf<\/a>

The Earth today stands in imminent peril, 6\/19\/07

http:\/\/environment.independent.co.uk\/climate_change\/article2675747.ece<\/a>

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"A report to the British Royal Society was \r\nreleased Tuesday in which America's top \r\nclimate scientist and five others spoke with \r\nstronger feelings about the climate situation \r\nthan their usual drab scientific findings. They \r\nwere, of course, trying to wake people up to \r\nthe seriousness of the problems of our climate's \r\nfuture.\r\n","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2007\/06\/201300.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}