[GPSCC-chat] Politics and Science

[Wes Rolley]

While nations are talking the politics of climate change in Durban, SA, 
the scientists, including Dr James Hansen, are talking the science 
during the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San 
Francisco. The Climate Watch Blog at KQED has a post about today's 
presentation from a panel including Dr. Hansen.

That post is here: 
http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2011/12/06/nasa-climate-changes-coming-faster-than-we-thought/

I excerpt:
>
> Hansen’s warning is based on his team’s finding that long-ago changes 
> of less than two degrees in the Earth’s temperature resulted in oceans 
> rising by about 25 meters (about 82 feet). Current science on global 
> ice sheets concludes that they’re shedding ice, and the rate of that 
> is increasing.
>
> “We’ve got to slow down this experiment that we’re doing with the 
> planet,” says Hansen, “because otherwise we’re leaving for young 
> people a situation that’s going to be out of their control.”
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