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Posted by Bob F on June 25, 2008, 11:33 am
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>> Tipping Points Near
>> by James Hansen
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> <Snipped drivel>
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>> Democracy works, but sometimes it churns slowly. Time is short. The
>> 2008 election is critical for the planet. If Americans turn out to
>> pasture the most brontosaurian congressmen, and if Washington adapts
>> to address climate change, our children and grandchildren can still
>> hold great expectations.
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>> Dr. James E. Hansen, a physicist by training, directs the NASA
>> Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a laboratory of the Goddard
>> Space Flight Center and a unit of the Columbia University Earth
>> Institute, but he testifies here as a private citizen.
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> Global warming is obviously a political issue, not an environmental one.
Obvious to the oblivious.
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