In 2008, Seth Borenstein quoted academics as saying we are toast and this is our last chance. Fifteen years later he is still quoting academics saying the same thing
“We’re toast if we don’t get on a very different path,” Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences
To cut emissions, Hansen said coal-fired power plants that don’t capture carbon dioxide emissions shouldn’t be used in the United States after 2025, and should be eliminated in the rest of the world by 2030.
“We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes,” Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. “The Arctic is the first tipping point and it’s occurring exactly the way we said it would.”
Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., committee chairman, said, “Dr. Hansen was right. Twenty years later, we recognize him as a climate prophet.”
NASA climate expert warns planet facing its last chance
“if we don’t quickly cut back on how we are stressing the Earth, we’re toast,”
September 13, 2023
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