[net-gold] ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE: As Climate Change Worsens, Scientists Feel Increasing Pressure to Speak Out
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- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 15:03:17 -0500 (EST)
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ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE:
As Climate Change Worsens,
Scientists Feel Increasing Pressure to Speak Out
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As Climate Change Worsens,
Scientists Feel Increasing Pressure to Speak Out
At a recent conference, scientists debate how far they should go in
expressing their concerns about the world's response to global warming.
By Elizabeth Grossman
Inside Climate News
December 29, 2011
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20111229/climate-change-worsens-
scientists-james-hansen-nasa-advocacy-skeptics-global-warming-ipcc
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/7re2r38
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Factors contributing to climate change are moving faster than predicted
and pushing us toward planetary conditions unlike any humans have ever
knownthis was one of the salient themes to emerge from this month's
meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the world's largest gathering
of earth and space scientists. Some scientists think we've already crossed
that boundary and are, as Jonathan Foley, director of the University of
Minnesota Institute on the Environment, said, "in a very different world
than we have ever seen before."
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What scientists are now witnessing as the earth responds to increasing
levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases presents many of them with a
dilemma: How far should they go in expressing their concerns about how
government and society are responding to climate change? This question is
particularly charged given that efforts to undermine climate science have
become part of the political debate on these issues.
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Running through the meeting's scientific presentations were formal and
informal discussions about the scientist's role in guiding society's
response to climate change, including how to effectively communicate the
certainties and uncertainties of the scienceand how to respond to what Don
Wuebbles, University of Illinois professor of atmospheric science and
chair of the organization's Global Environmental Change committee, called
the "confusionists."
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After the meeting, InsideClimate News interviewed several leading climate
scientists and a renowned science historian to get a sense of how they are
navigating this difficult terrain. All of them have testified before
Congress and several were contributing authors on the 2007 report of the
Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), so
all understand the challenges of working in the public spotlight.
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When it comes to the certainties of climate science, all of them agree
that the scientific literature has established definitively that rising
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have led to global warming and that
anthropogenic fossil fuel burning is a major factor in this rise.
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"The bottom line is that the climate system is telling us an internally
and physically consistent story," said Benjamin Santer, an atmospheric
scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who delivered the 2011
AGU Stephen Schneider Memorial lecture. "While there will always be
sizable scientific uncertainties, there can be no reasonable debate about
whether the planet is warming," or that fossil fuel burning is a prime
contributing factor, said Santer, an IPCC report contributor, whose work
linking climate change with anthropogenic factors has been attacked by
climate change skeptics.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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