Cheerful Charlie
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On September 20, 2016, 377 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 30 Nobel laureates, published an open letter to draw attention to the serious risks of climate change. The letter warns that the consequences of opting out of the Paris agreement would be severe and long-lasting for our planet’s climate and for the international credibility of the United States.
A full list of signers follows the text of the letter.
[h=2]An Open Letter Regarding Climate Change From
Concerned Members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences[/h]Human-caused climate change is not a belief, a hoax, or a conspiracy. It is a physical reality. Fossil fuels powered the Industrial Revolution. But the burning of oil, coal, and gas also caused most of the historical increase in atmospheric levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. This increase in greenhouse gases is changing Earth’s climate.
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What can I say? What does it take to make our Congress understand we have to get this right? I had long wanted a statement from a bunch of Nobel laureates and here it is.
On September 20, 2016, 377 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 30 Nobel laureates, published an open letter to draw attention to the serious risks of climate change. The letter warns that the consequences of opting out of the Paris agreement would be severe and long-lasting for our planet’s climate and for the international credibility of the United States.
A full list of signers follows the text of the letter.
[h=2]An Open Letter Regarding Climate Change From
Concerned Members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences[/h]Human-caused climate change is not a belief, a hoax, or a conspiracy. It is a physical reality. Fossil fuels powered the Industrial Revolution. But the burning of oil, coal, and gas also caused most of the historical increase in atmospheric levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. This increase in greenhouse gases is changing Earth’s climate.
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What can I say? What does it take to make our Congress understand we have to get this right? I had long wanted a statement from a bunch of Nobel laureates and here it is.