<![CDATA[Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global Warming]]>

1.0 link 108766 <![CDATA[Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global Warming]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-james-hansen/twenty-years-later-tippin_b_108766.html Today I testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after my June 23, 1988 testimony, which alerted the public that global warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.

Again a wide gap has developed between what is understood about global warming by the relevant scientific community and what is known by policymakers and the public. Now, as then, frank assessment of scientific data yields conclusions that are shocking to the body politic....

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