Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within
Decades, Not Centuries!
“We’re in danger of handing young people a
situation that’s out of their control,” said James E. Hansen, the
retired NASA climate scientist who led the new research. The findings
were released Tuesday morning by a European
science journal, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The basic claim of the paper is that
by burning fossil fuels at a prodigious pace and pouring heat-trapping gases
into the atmosphere, humanity is about to provoke an abrupt climate shift.
Living in Minnesota will be impacted as well.
Specifically, the authors believe that fresh water pouring into
the oceans from melting land ice will set off a feedback loop that will cause
parts of the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica to disintegrate
rapidly. What do we know to be true about Global Climate Change? These answers
will help:
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