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Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.
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Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.
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Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now, yet we dither.
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The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.
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Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.
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Born:
March 29, 1941
(age 84)
Bio:
James Edward Hansen is an American adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University.
Known for:
Storms of My Grandchildren (2009)
The Pepsi Signs (2013)
Cotton Policy in China
The Ministry of the Cantor (1985)
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