Earth at tipping point

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The scientist, James Hansen, responsible for warning of the dangers of global warming 20 years ago, warned Washington two days ago that the Earth is nearing a tipping point. He’s called for national carbon tax and accused CEOs of energy companies that they “may be guilty of crimes against humanity and nature”.

They (energy companies) are also guilty of funding and promoting contrarian views from scientists, furthering a charade that confuses the public into believing there is debate among scientists in this country, Hansen said.

“There is no debate,” he said.

James Hansens, in 1988, was the first scientist to warn the senate that he was “99 per cent certain” that humans were warming the global climate.

Two decades later, now 67 and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, his message has not changed.

“We have reached a point of planetary emergency,” he said.

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