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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (10688)2/28/2012 9:52:48 AM
From: mel2211 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) of 85487
 
>> as opposed to what you want to think he said.

What I think he said is what the reporter stated.

Hansen said current carbon levels in the atmosphere were already too high to prevent runaway greenhouse warming. Yet the levels are still rising despite all the efforts of politicians and scientists.

My interpretation of what he did say is that we are already past the tipping point and that reducing CO2 emissions is useless.

He stated in a 2008 paper that "We are at the tipping point because the climate state includes large, ready positive feedbacks"

pubs.giss.nasa.gov

Well, 4 years of additional CO2 emissions has certainly put us past the tipping point.
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