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EnvironmentEnglish · 2 years ago

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come

www.theguardian.com

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‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come

www.theguardian.com

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EnvironmentEnglish · 2 years ago

James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’

Turns out Hansen should have been a household name in the '90s.

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Read “Losing Earth” by Nathaniel Rich. We came close to acting in the late 70s. But we didn’t.

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